What plants do you grow besides orchids?

[Leafmite]

I grow the Camellia sinensis. I have had it a couple of years. It likes a pH 6-6.5 and very good drainage. So, you will make a potting soil that has peat as the base, then add perlite, sand, and pine bark. The peat should only equal about 1/3 of the mix. I think I threw in some aquarium gravel and sphagnum moss, too. They like cattleya light and the soil should stay moist. I use hollytone and Ironite to keep it happy. They are prone to scale. Hope this helps.

[greengarden]

My tea plant is growing in a bucket in a spot under some shade cloth in the garden...sometimes I water it LOL


Does that help?

[GreenRoses]

I have only few plants in my garden. Some of them are Viola cornuta, Euphorbia, Coffee Arabica , Hibiscus pink and Camellia sinensis.

[Ferns Daddy]

Other than orchids I grow
12 Plumerias
30 Bromeliads
9 Jades
10 epiphyllum
bunch of succulentd that I don't know their names
and just about any thing I find on the discount tables, I need some thing in bloom in the New England winters to keep me going

[gardengirl13]

Yeah anything to cheer us up with these winters! It's so rainy and yucky out today, but at least it's not snow! Nice indoor plants always make me smile!

[Leafmite]

I grow tropical plants for the same reason--to get through the dreary days of ice and cold.

[gardengirl13]

It seems like there are a lot of somewhat local people here! I see some many from the NE, NY, NJ, OH. It's great!

My nepenthes is bringing me joy right now! No flowers but boy do people love this plant! I have gotten so many comments on it over the last few weeks! I have two phal in bloom and three in spike which really is making me super happy! Then I have the poinsettias, paperwhites and amaryllis in bloom. It's so nice and cheerful!

[Kevinator]

Thank you for all the info! Now, time to upload some pictures....

[Kevinator]

Alright! Here comes the pics!


This is my newly made terrarium. I call it the tropical walkway. It contains divisions of prayer plants, a pepperomia, a maidenhair fern, earth stars, a nerve plant, and gotu kola. This used to be my carnivorous terrarium until it failed. The lid is custom made acrylic with a handle and air holes.


This is my newly aquired Camelia siensis.


This is blackberry lily, a herb originating from China. It is now naturalized in parts of the U.S. and mine is starting to die down.


A planter of cyclamen that I have had for years. It is starting to develop flower buds.


My two pups of pineapple that I started three months ago.


My lemongrass plant. It is small and hans't grown really much. I have to admit it is very messy.


My small perrenial butterfly garden ready for winter. I got some monarch caterpillars from the milkweed which I will post later.


The evergiving lemon tree.


The not so evergiving orange tree.

[Leafmite]

Nice! I have to grow my lemon in a pot to spend winter indoors!