Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Diseases!

I am sad because my plants are sick :-( Here are 8 pictures of 4 plants with possible nutrient deficiencies. I'll post what's wrong with them as soon as I figure it out. Any input is of course appreciated

Plumeria seedlings - the one on the right has yellowish leaves. Could be too much water - not sure


Coral Tree(?)
Plumeria cutting that rooted - 3 of the leaves are curly
Vigna Caracalla. This plant his mystified me since its day of germination. It grew fast for a couple weeks but S L O W E D down after that. It wasn't doing well outside, so I took it inside, and it still wasnt doing well. I've since put it back out side in the shade, and it seems to be actually growing from the tip - the leaves still fall off with the slightest pull. :-(
Posted by Picasa

Allamanda - Cherries Jubilee. All the websites online mention a nutrient deficiency in which the veins are green surrounded by yellow, but here the veins are yellow surrounded by green - What gives!? It's still flowring beautifully right now though!

Posted by Picasa

Sunday, September 28, 2008

My First Ipomoea Cypress Vine flower!

To my surprise, today I walked out to my garden after being gone all weekend and I found this! I was thinking all summer that it would never bloom - but today I got my first flower - and it's pink! So much cooler than the red ones. Anyway - I just wanted to share with you!


Sorry the picture is not in better focus. I took 13 and this is the only decent one.
Posted by Picasa

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Garden update August 21, 2008

Here are a few new photos from my garden. I wish desperately I had more room to plant things, but my patio is so small, that I am doing the best with what I've got. I have a couple of plants I would like to plant in their permanent positions, but my parents are going to be moving within the next couple of years, so I'm afraid that if I plant these, I won't be able to transplant them when they move! Anyway - Here you go!
Here are some mums I bought at Home Depot. Yes, I cheated. I didn't grow them from seed - but they're just so beautiful and cheap that I can't resist. Right now I am trying to hand cross-pollinate them with another mum variety so we'll see what happens.


Cat break! My roommate's cat, Dolce

Pot. There is a plumeria planted smack in the middle. Starting from the mum on the left and going counter clock-wise: purple ornamental sweet potato, an amberish colored ornamental sweet potato, ornamental oregano, and lastly a gomphrena I started from seed at the end of march. The rocks are to keep the dang squirrels out! I swear they are driving me INSANE. They don't dig where I don't have plants- they dig AT the roots of the plants I planted! How annoying.


Desert willow seedlings. Don't ask me what I'm going to do with them when they are bigger... haha

My deformed green envy zinnia. I'm hoping it will set seed

Maroon nasturtium seedlings with plumeria seedlings in the background!

My first seed harvest!! Purple LabLab seeds. So excited!

3 Passiflora mollissima seedlings. 

Allamanda Cherries Jubilee. Supposedly, these can set seed but I can't seem to find the reproductive structures inside the flower. Any help would be appreciated!

Unfurled 'cherries jubilee' flower. Cool shape.

Snapdragon seedlings. Growing slowly, growing slowly. I hope I can get them to survive to flower!

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Untitled


I don't really have anything of interest to say - I just wanted to post some recent pictures
 
Ipomoea batatas Ornamental Sweet Potato. It started flowering last week. I love the flowers and how the lighter shade of purple contrasts with the deep purple of new leaf growth 

 
Evolvulus Blue Daze. The silvery-green foliage is beautiful with the blue flowers
Mandevilla I think it's Alice duPont but i'm not sure. I had it planted where it got full sun in the afternoon and it was really struggling. I moved it to a pot on my patio where it gets indirect sunlight and it's really taken off.

Another Ipomoea batatas flower

Fireman's cap at Shoal Creek Nursery. I thin it's Erythrina crista-galli or something to that effect. It's a tree with beautiful coral flowers

Mandevilla again
Posted by Picasa

 

 
I was at Chuy's last week in Round Rock and I spotted this unknown plant. If anyone knows what it is, I'd be greatly appreciative