What plants do you grow besides orchids?

[stefpix]

Thanks tindomul. I wonder if I can find Cinnamomum verum, the true cinnamon.

[Leafmite]

Cinnamomum zeylanicum seems to be a synonym for Cinniamomum verum but I could be wrong. The common spice sold in stores comes from the Cassia.

[stefpix]

Yeah I know about Cassia. you can find true cinnamon too. easier to tell not ground. I like true cinnamon in my coffee. I can't put cassia / chinese cinnamon ( reg. cinnamon in the USA). Many Mexican product stores carry true cinnamon

[Pilot]

What a fun thread. Here's what I have going on...

Thanks to a solarium on the house I have:
About seven types of citrus
Roughly 50+ hippeastrum hybrids and species
Several elephant jade trained as bonsai
Hibiscus for my wife because she looooooves Hawaii and those amazingly huge flowers
Clivia miniata...one of my favorites in or out of bloom
A ficus, which is actually twenty or so smaller ficus but bound together to make one larger tree also as bonsai
Several types of succulents and cacti... My favorite being a euphorbia obessa that is the shape of a sphere. It's so odd looking and loves to be neglected.

I grow many other things outside but too many to list but I will say I live high in altitude and it's quite dry here so I've been obsessed with growing a better Eco system on my property. Russian sage has been the key to that new Eco system. We had no life on our property because nothing ever flowered or grew. Just grass and grasshoppers. I began planting loads of Russian sage around he garden to attract bees and low and behold its working. Native plants enjoying the water from the garden are even flowering now too and enjoyed by the bees. It's amazing what a small change to the environment can do. Also Russian sage uses very little water...perfect for high colorado!

[Leafmite]

Stefpix, here is one link:
Species Information
Logees still had the plant the last time I looked. It grows very well in a soil mixed 50/50 peat and perlite, with the addition of pine bark, sand, and an organic fertilizer for holly and camelias. Very easy to grow. Good luck!

[Leafmite]

Colorado sounds like a challenge. Glad you found something that worked.

[stefpix]

Thanks leafmite. I get the newsletter from Logee's. Their prices seem a bit steep for very small plants. I ordered a Pimenta dioica (allspice) from wellspring for 7.99 + a couple of named varieties of common fig.

Pimenta has a really great smell in the leaves too, even if the seeds are sold as spice. The seeds have short viability and it is hard to propagate by cuttings.

I am really into figs. compared to orchids they offer instant gratification. I got a Hardy Chicago on sale at Lowes and the small rooted cutting is already producing figs. they seem undemanding easy plants.

Same with the tropical Ficus I have been growing from seed. Usually grow as strangler banyan trees.

[Ray]

In the greenhouse: oxalis and rabbit's foot ferns - neither by choice, and an "apostle plant", Neomarica gracilis (below). I would not waste orchid space for much of anything. OK. Basil over the winter.

[ToopyBinoo]

Here’s my list of flowers I grow in my garden other than orchids:
Sweet pea
Anthurium
Hibiscus
Nasturtium
Marigold
Bromeliads
African Violets

[Wrebbitrocks]

i grew a pumpkin this year! boy am i excited