This week in the Garden

Lets do some planting!

Ensete Maurelli I got at work did great in the garage

Pond Plants!

Solar Lights from Home Depot. 

Abutilon with impatients and Gardenmister Fuchsia

Meyer Lemon overwintered in the garage and is blooming beautifully in the driveway. Other citrus are budding too!

Klondyke Azalea

SO fragrant! Variegated Alocasia is new this year and the Staghorn fern is more than 10 years old from a Rutgers Plant sale!

New Purchase! A Yucca Aliofolia Magenta. From Lowes of all places. Pretty cool

Yucca from Rutgers plant sale is coming back. This variety suffered dieback this winter but not too bad considering it's in the middle of my lawn. Its called Lil's Large Black Fig

Ornamental Onions Allium

 

Bananas (I'll update this throughout the season!)

Musa sikkimensis 

 

Eneste Maurelli

Musa Ae Ae 

Blood Banana - Musa zebrine 

Musa Velutina - Pink Banana

Musella lasiocarpa

Musa Siam Ruby

Fishtail palm update!

 Last May

This May

My Garden in Early May - shade looks great but sunny spots not so much!

Things are coming along faster in my shade gardens than the sunny areas because I don't have to acclimate the indoor plants quite as much to the sun levels here. Let's start with the front porch! Bismarkia is still looking a little awkward from the cold damage a year ago. Queen palm thrived in the garage along with the chamadorea microspadix. Clivia is coming along but might need to be repotted!

Loving this combo!

In full sun, the windmill palm is looking ok after its first winter. I had rot on the bottom of my Ensete but new roots are growing and so are new leaves so we'll just have to wait and see on that one!

Yucca Tromping Around with Encore Azalea

Off to the pond area! My variegated Cranium, an Ensete I grew at work, and my Australian Tree fern. Farther in the background you can see my Arecea, my variegated yucca gigantes, and my variegated cordyline

Flamethrower palm hanging out in shade with my Musa Ae Ae for another week

Variegated Alocasia

Palm Grass (Curculigo capitulata) , Dieffenbachia, and Farfugium japonica. Livistona still waking up!

And in the sun garden you can see my Musa sikkimensis waking up

Hibiscus tillaceus looks ok with the Bird of Paradise. Queen Emma Crinum is quite burnt as usual

Bleeding Heart

A few early May blooms

Viburnum plicatum tomentosum 

Pansies

Dahlia Go Go Pink

Gold Prinz Rhododendron hybrid 'Goldschatz'

Dahlia Bishop of York

Yucca thrumming around with Azalea Encore