Some of my other favorite plants

[Junebug]

These are some of my favorite non-orchid plants.

Anthurium
Plumeria
Tillandsia
Passiflora 'Incense' and fruit
Mexican Flame Vine / a butterfly and bee magnet
Heart shaped Hoya first bloom
Hoya Carnosa Bloom

[Leafmite]

Love your plants! I always look foward to the wonderful fragrance of my plumaria. I have passaflora, too. I lug them inside every autumn and outside every spring, always having to untangle the passaflora from whatever they've climbed. I just planted Maypops in the garden but will probably take cuttings in August in case they don't survive the Winter. Thanks for sharing!
Leafmite

[Junebug]

Originally Posted by Leafmite

Love your plants! I always look foward to the wonderful fragrance of my plumaria. I have passaflora, too. I lug them inside every autumn and outside every spring, always having to untangle the passaflora from whatever they've climbed. I just planted Maypops in the garden but will probably take cuttings in August in case they don't survive the Winter. Thanks for sharing!
Leafmite

Thank you. Plumerias do have a devine fragrance. My Passiflora 'Incense' is rather cold tolerant. The foliage dies back when exposed to frost, but it recovers rapidly as the weather warms. The one in the photo was actually a runner that's being trained to climb a tall palm tree. I've been yanking most of the other runners because they're popping up everywhere. I potted up a few of them to give as gifts. They are invasive, but they are also lovely and fragrant. IMO they're good features outweigh their bad ones. A few minutes of yanking prior to mowing keeps them under control.

[Daethen]

I love the passaflora. Yank a couple of runners for me.

[Tindomul]

Gorgeous stuff.

[WhiteRabbit]

just lovely! I love plumeria!

[Tindomul]

Pic 7, gorgeous female Tiger-swallow Tail butterfly!

[Junebug]

Originally Posted by Tindomul

Pic 7, gorgeous female Tiger-swallow Tail butterfly!

Thanks. I thought that one was a black swallow tail. On occasion I've seen giant swallow tails, but they're nervous and flighty and tough to photograph.

[Paul]

Love the flame vine! Don't imagine it would fair well wintering inside my dry apartment -- likely would have mite or mealie issues under those conditions.

[Leafmite]

It will be fun to see if the maypops become invasive. That is the only fruit producing one that is 'hardy' up here in zone five. I've never actually seen one even though they are said to grow this far north. The ones I lug in and out come from Hawaii and, this year, I put them out a bit early. At fifty-two degrees, they suffered. My phals are tougher than they!
It will be great when they bloom!
Leafmite