DirtyCoconuts presents: The flora and fauna of the Coconuts Compound

[Roberta]

Originally Posted by DirtyCoconuts

coming from you, that is exciting to hear...i have agree with SouthPark, they are so lovely that i almost don't care if they bloom.

I also realized that if they are as happy here as they seem then i might be landscaping my entire world with them

The test will be this fall... Cyms grow just fine in the heat... Hopefully, the ones that you have will also bloom, that's the "gotcha" . If they don't bloom this year could also be from the fact that they were just divided... sometimes they skip a year under the best of circumstances. But here's hoping!

[WaterWitchin]

Flowers, Flowers, Everywhere!

[DirtyCoconuts]

keiki keikis keikis EVERYWHERE!!!!

a friend gave me a bunch of ratty dendrobium canes about a year ago and she was like, these are beautiful, you will love these, they grow like crazy, stick them in a really big basket and just wait. I was incredulous as it made one normal new growth and three keikis last year.

Well well well...it was just biding it time...waiting to explode!!!
Ghost by J Solo, on Flickr

that one cane has more than 10



the basket is 18" and i stopped counting at 40 keikis

Ghost by J Solo, on Flickr

i cant wait to see it flower...i hope i like it LOL



Adenium and stuff by J Solo, on Flickr


Adenium and stuff by J Solo, on Flickr

Brogdon by J Solo, on Flickr



Brogdon by J Solo, on Flickr


Brogdon by J Solo, on Flickr

breakfast of champs!!

Brogdon by J Solo, on Flickr


voodoo lilies are getting toasty...stinky flowers in my future!!

Brogdon by J Solo, on Flickr


my Den. spectabile has finally started it first Big Boy cane!! its like a goofy awkward teenager who is 5 inches taller than his peers


Brogdon by J Solo, on Flickr



Roberta really saved this plant (edit i forgot to put the name, Dichaea longa) LOL, by 1) showing me her awesome hiking pics 2) introducing me to the Baker Sheetss and 3) telling me how to change my mount for success (tactfully and without making me feel stupid)

so the five new growths and one flower are in her honor :
Brogdon by J Solo, on Flickr

[WaterWitchin]

I'm really interested in seeing that Den bloom...My favorite, of course, are the avocados. Picked straight off the tree I'm sure. Gonna have to go pout for awhile now.

[Roberta]

DC, I'm so glad that Dichea has responded! All I did was take a dream trip into the wild... something that I fear is not going to happen for anybody for a rather long time. But your climate is perfect... I can't keep them wet enough to make them happy.

[DirtyCoconuts]

Originally Posted by WaterWitchin

I'm really interested in seeing that Den bloom...My favorite, of course, are the avocados. Picked straight off the tree I'm sure. Gonna have to go pout for awhile now.

they take a day or two off the tree to reach perfect ripeness-

i will shamelessly plug mother nature here for a second- Brogdon Avocados are awesome!!! i cant grow the real Mexican Hass here- they just don't thrive and the fruit is hit or miss and that is unacceptable in my opinion. i have a Florida Hass which is a bastard and the fruit don't set but it is a type A flower which is great since brogdon is a B and so i get all the Brogdon flowers pollenated and never worry if the Florida does or not...anywho, they are tasty and buttery and two to three times the size of a Hass. bomb


WW- i think i will get a box out to you next week with some treats- i'll throw in some 'cados too!

[Roberta]

Yes to mother nature!... Haas avocados do great where I live... just about done with this year's crop though, alas.

[DirtyCoconuts]

one of my friends has a dad who is fond of saying of Hass avocados...of course they wont grow here (of Miami), they are Mexican, they are too smart for that, no idiot wants to live in this humidity (he's from Baja )

[DirtyCoconuts]

Flowers in the sun by J Solo, on Flickr


Flowers in the sun by J Solo, on Flickr


Flowers in the sun by J Solo, on Flickr

this next pic is really exciting to me. I LOVE bamboo orchids and i have always obsessed over the pictures of seeing massive groups with tons of flowers...i did not realize that these were MANY MANY orchids and not one single specimen. so it has taken me about three years in this configuration to get to having finally two ( and one more in bud) of blooming size.


I know soon the left one will fall and try to start a new colony with her keikis and i'll wrangle that when i have to LOL but i am so pumped for many of these amazing flowers floating around my yard. they flower sequentially and i cant remember a time when it wasn't flowering so i think it blooms all year...forever


Flowers in the sun by J Solo, on Flickr

[WaterWitchin]

A closeup of the bloom on the bamboo orchids when you get a chance please?