DirtyCoconuts presents: The flora and fauna of the Coconuts Compound

[WaterWitchin]

Can’t ya grow them as a houseplant?

[DirtyCoconuts]

i don't know about the dwarf...i have not seen how big it will get as mine is only a teenager and is in a pot.

the Royals are a 35-45 foot top with about a 60' canopy

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Dwarf Poinciana Tree


i think that if you prune it well it can be a tame housemate

[JScott]

I love love love all your pictures. They are amazing. i have quite a few in bloom myself, but yours are amazing. Mine certainly look good, but the climate here it is just more difficult to get such spectacular blooms as you do. You have the prfect climate and it shows.

[WaterWitchin]

Good Lord DC! It says with vigilance I can train it to six or 8 foot? Maybe my buddy was right about needing a 30x128 greenhouse....

[DirtyCoconuts]

you are going to have so much time now that you aren't hauling plants....

[DirtyCoconuts]

i love the sequential bloomers...a bud, a new flower, a mature flower and a dead flower....goes round and round and round on the circle game

Grow your own by J Solo, on Flickr


mr spider
Grow your own by J Solo, on Flickr


i love the mussaenda...the color is not the flower, it is a trick leaf, like a bouganvilla

Grow your own by J Solo, on Flickr


the flowers are unimpressive
Grow your own by J Solo, on Flickr

everblooming is kind of an exaggeration but look, it is still blooming the old spikes while the new ones grew in???

Grow your own by J Solo, on Flickr


stolen (and slightly adapted) mount basket design [Thanks OrchidBro] for my Stans and Coelogynes

Grow your own by J Solo, on Flickr

[DirtyCoconuts]

Gardena...perfect in smell, form and color...if only the damn ants weren't ALWAYS on the blooms, it would be the best potpourri
Gardena and friends by J Solo, on Flickr

this is another papi miss joquin but a different clone or something as it has very different shapes when you compare it to the first pic in the above post...

I have no way of knowing which of the piece around my yard came from which of my mother plants until they flower and i wish i kept better notes LOL


Gardena and friends by J Solo, on Flickr


my cockle shell is about to explode...

Gardena and friends by J Solo, on Flickr


three opening sheathes

Gardena and friends by J Solo, on Flickr

mounted dancing lady with only one spike this time...she blooms usually three or two times a year, typically one with more spikes than the other

Gardena and friends by J Solo, on Flickr

and alien dong...i mean ginger

Gardena and friends by J Solo, on Flickr

[DirtyCoconuts]

a while back we put in this fence and i tried to skimp on the stain and bought the only two tins on the "clearance" rack at Lowe's...they had the same color label...i also used a borrowed sprayer that failed and something else went wrong LOL..this pic is cool to me for two reasons, 1) it looks so much better as it gets covered and 2) every single plant that you see except for the vanda, was taken as garbage from my neighbors pile LOL

Little treasure by J Solo, on Flickr


this is root porn

Little treasure by J Solo, on Flickr


pitchers are forming nicely and opening

Little treasure by J Solo, on Flickr


Little treasure by J Solo, on Flickr

i see at least three vines in this cluster- anyone have experience in cutting them and propagating?

Little treasure by J Solo, on Flickr


i think i will get figs this year since i stopped Luella from eating the damn plant each year

Title II by J Solo, on Flickr



Title II by J Solo, on Flickr


catasetum corner

Little treasure by J Solo, on Flickr


i think that Brassavolas really enjoy baskets

Title II by J Solo, on Flickr


this palm tree rules!! my neighbor's and she has at least five orchids, the ferns are natural

Phrag and spider by J Solo, on Flickr

[Dollythehun]

Very nice, Judah... I'd love to watch you learn to garden in Indiana (or Kansas.) We don't just drop 'em on the ground (or fence) up here and they grow. We work at it. 😉

[WaterWitchin]

School him Carol!!