September Photo DROP!

So much happened in September. I'll just pack it all into one post because I'm about to bring 100s of plants inside for winter and deserve to be lazy! 

Epiphyllum oxypetalum blooming beautifully. I brought it indoors to enjoy the blooms

Dahlia

Hibiscus midnight tryst

Passion Flower "Lavender Lady"

Mother of thousands

Dipladanea - Fired up orange

Pond plants, Ensete, Crinum, Farfugium, palm grass, and bat flower (also my giant tree fern!)

The other side with my orchid in bloom too! 

And the flamethrower palm is nice and red!

Plumeria Maya

Cosmo Chocamocha

Colocasia Mojito

Frolicking with the dahlias

Staghorn Fern and Variegated Elephant Ear

Plumeria california sunset

Allamanda Cherry jubilee 

Yucca gloriosa and thrumming around

Giant Dahlias and star Dahlia

Citrus time! I have a big ponderosa lemon and a lot of Meyer lemons this year

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A happy corner of the garden with my fishtail palm and trachycarpus 

Flamethrower palm all green again

But look at how gorgeous it was earlier in the month with it's new red frond!

My driveway and front yard garden in Late August

My plant wall and citrus grove in my driveway is coming along nicely. It's amazing how many flowers the kumquat has been producing. This is the third flush this season! 

Mule palm getting a lot of size (trachycarpus latisectus on the left side)

Close up of my Tetrapanex & Mrs. Peters Geranium

My variegated kumquat doing well! 

Sago palm slowly trying to flush out.

Plenty of blooms on the kumquat & my Bronx Zoo Fig (Biagos Blush) is definitely ready to go in the ground next season. This is an air layer from my parents garden.

Peeping snow queen hibiscus above with the Sweet Potato Vines creeping downward. A cool effect!

You can see the Yucca aloifolia Magenta Magic on the bottom left side here 

Zinnia that I didn't plant (Thank you birds!)

Tibouchina urvella peeping in on the left side. This overwinters in the garage. My Hybrid Cycad (revoluta x panzhihuaensis) flushes so much more easily than the Sago 

Wider shot!

Another angle with my Pink Passion Cordyline australis

Encore Azaleas begin! Fall is here!

Madagascar palm (Pachypodium lamerei) grows SO slow here, but at least it looks pretty for now. Won't be long before it's inside for the winter. The Yucca rostrata will go in the ground in the spring. Also peeping on the left side is my Trachycarpus fortunei (aka my windmill palm!)

Thanks for looking! 

 

Some VERY weird TropicalHibiscus in my garden

I got a new hibiscus from San Diego. This is an Australian Blue Hibiscus (Alyogyne huegelii) 

(August 10th)

Last year I bought a "Snow Queen" Hibiscus from a local college plant sale. It did better than all my other hibiscus inside the house and has grown to MASSIVE proportions this year. The branches hang downward  and the leaves get whiter and whiter the more it's exposed to sun. It's definitely not your ordinary hibiscus and that adds to the charm. 

August 11