Orchids and a few other things around the yard

[voyager]

We'll start with the orchids:

First an Epic. Hybrid.
It had 3 spikes going with many buds.Something ate all the buds but one.


This little Miltonia Hybrid blooms like clockwork at least a couple times a year.


This Latouria section Den. Hybrid has been in bloom for several months now


This mini Nobile hybrid also blooms at least 2X a year


This Vanda Hybrid has bloomed again.


This Vanda Hybrid is one of the first ones I mounted on our trees.


Red spotted weed orchid. The only one of its kind I've found so far.
I've been watching for this one to bloom again. It is right on time. I got pics of it in mid Feb of last year. I was curious as to how it would do in very bright conditions, looks to be doing very well.
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Rhy. gigantia - This one blooms like clockwork every year. The one to it's right has yet to bloom for me, 2 years and counting.


Ency. odoratissima - My favorite fragrance in an orchid.


Max. tenuifolia - Two separate plantings adjacent to each other on the same tree.


It has just begun to open flowers. I can smell coconuts as I walk by this tree.


Then, a few other things around the yard.

A couple of His Biscuits.
A pink one


And a red one


WE have 2 Agave attenuata plantings. This one is out along the road just behind our mail box. The leaf heads are about 2-1/2' to 3' in diameter.


These orange Impatiens are along our driveway entrance.


This the first of a group of Heliconias just beginning to bloom.


This is my Orange Juice Tree, a Valencia type hybrid with larger than usual fruit for a Valencia.


Flowers from a Mandevilla vine. Very similar to the yellow Allamanda vines that grow invasively over trees locally.


Bromeliad Robin blooming again and getting larger with many more flowers.


A yellow flowered Ohia tree. Quite unusual for this area. Most around here are red flowered while the yellows grow on the Kona side where it is drier.

[wintergirl]

Wonderful pictures, what a paradise!

[MrHappyRotter]

Really cool.

I think the "Miltonia hybrid" is actually a Miltoniopsis intergeneric.

[estación seca]

Thank you!

Do you grow any of the native Hibiscus species? I've heard they're pretty readily available in garden supply shops as a conservation measure - so people don't take them out of the wild.

[charlesf6]

Quite the tour! Lucky you!

[voyager]

Originally Posted by estación seca

Thank you!

Do you grow any of the native Hibiscus species? I've heard they're pretty readily available in garden supply shops as a conservation measure - so people don't take them out of the wild.

Whether or not I grow any native Hibiscus is debatable.
I do have one, a Hibiscus brackenridgei. It is the only native Hibiscus I've seen available anywhere around here. It is endangered and I was provided with a tag saying it is OK for me to possess it. I picked this one up at least 2 years ago at a U of Hilo / state Ag Dept. sponsored Master Gardner plant sale.

It put out several branches at first, low down. Then it has grown upward without branching until it is now about 8 or 9 feet tall. It has not produced any flowers, ever.
My understanding is that this species is endemic to the drier side of the island. My thought is that my place may be too wet for it to grow healthily.
It isn't dying, But, neither is it thriving.
I have tried to air-layer the upper portion of the plant to allow the lower branches to take over the main growth.
But, it doesn't seem to have taken yet.

Hibiscus brackenridgei (Ma'o hau hele)

Hibiscus brackenridgei subsp. brackenridgei - Meet the Plants - National Tropical Botanical Garden Plant Database

Right now, I'm working on replacing roofing on the back and front lanai's and the pergola over the spa. when I get a lull in the job, I'll add a pic of the hibiscus here, and another orchid that has just opened a blossom.

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Here is my Hibiscus breckenridgei, or what passes for one:



As I look at it again, maybe it wants to become a 30' tree instead of a shrub as I expected it to be.

[estación seca]

Thanks. I think once I saw Hibiscus saintjohannis on the Kalalau Trail on northern Kauai. I had read there are different species on the different islands.

Somebody told me the Home Depot in Honolulu sold the native Hibiscus species in the landscaping section, artificially propagated.