I don’t know what this flower is called and the guy at the garden centre couldn’t name it either. Regardless, this is my selection for the regular Friday Picture.
Have a wonderful Friday my friends…
An Arab man's attempt at bridging the cultural gap and trying to make a difference. Failing a lot. Succeeding once in a while.
I don’t know what this flower is called and the guy at the garden centre couldn’t name it either. Regardless, this is my selection for the regular Friday Picture.
Have a wonderful Friday my friends…
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This is outstanding.
I’m disappointed Barry has not named it by now. 🙄 Barry??????
Seems to be a variation of the Gloriosa Lily.
Looks like you have Gloriosa rothschildiana. Gloriosa superba has flame orange petals and yellow lighlights.It’s a climbing lily, the tips of the leaves wrap around things.
Regardless of what it is called, I am waiting for September to roll on so I can buy the thing and have the pleasure of its company in my garden!
(but the pull is so great at the moment, that you shouldn’t be surprised to see it in my garden next week! :lol:)
Thanks, gang. I knew you wouldn’t disappoint me, Barry. 😛 Thanks to John I’ll be spending a lot of time on the Oregon Costal website.
This sounds like the perfect plant for you, Mahmood with the climate and your walls in the garden. I love that it lasts for 4 weeks as a cut flower. Can you imagine seeing this beauty every day? Thanks again, guys.
M: Had I not slept late and checked here first thing this morning, I would have 😀
You’re welcome, M :D. It really is a perfect plant for Mahmood as it is a tropical plant, so it should grow year round for him.
DAMMIT! Okay, I’ll have to get it tomorrow morning and then find where the hell I’m going to plant it! 😛
Mahmood: It’s calling your name:
Mahmooooooood, Mahmooood, buy meeeeeeeee, buy meeeeeeee :).
One more thing: These are monsoon plants, sot ehy are adapted to a monsoon climate (periods of dry with periods of wet). So, if your plant looses its leaves at a certain time of the year, don’t panic 😎
Gee, Barry. We make a good team; that didn’t take any arm twisting at all.
Imagine the trouble Frances would be in if we really tried! 👿
I’m a pushover when it comes to the garden, I’m the first to admit! 😆
As you might have expected, my task this morning was to:
1. Identify a nice place for the Gloriosa,
2. Get trellises for that wall, and
3. Go buy the lovely Gloriosa and bring it home.
I did the first two points, the third is unachievable unfortunately as Jannusan Exotics actually bought them as “experimental plants” and the plants themselves are not for sale individually; one could buy them with their rather expensive fiberglass pot and metal trellis-work so each would come in at well over BD100!
So, I now have a couple of big trellises waiting to be utilised. I think I might as well put them on the North-facing wall I selected; whatever uses them is another matter. It might well be the nicely growing tacomaria for now.
Anyway, I think I’ll order the Gloriosa tubers and see how I fair with them. For now, I’ll just go and bask in their glory at their present location every once in a while.
Talk about highway robbery. Was the pot gold plated or something? What a bummer 🙁 I would think the nursery would want to give a world renown blogger such as yourself one for free or at least a very nice deal for all the free advertising they’ve been getting. People!
On the bright side, a great deal of pleasure can be derived from anticipation and patience.
Ah, it’s a free market. They sell at a price they set and the buyers choose to buy or just walk away and say thanks!
I have to say that the iron trellis-work that they have manufactured themselves is actually quite nice: galvanised and then plastic immersed to get full coverage, so it (should) last a long time in this environment. But at 70 – 80 dinars a pop, it’s a bit too rich for my blood and I’ll stick to home-made bamboo models that I can make for less than one dinar, works just as well though. 😉
Of course you are right, Mahmood, but it’s still too bad they didn’t have the plant available for sale all by itself. Looking forward to seeing your picture of yours one of these days.
Tch. Too bad! I’ve seen that happen here. One nursery was selling Howeas (a type of palm) for $300 a pop. I don’t know where they got them, but I suspect they have a relic of the Buddha buried in the pot inside of a gold box to account for that kind of price :). You’re probably better off trying to order the tubers themselves online
In the meantime, pop for a couple of dollars worth of Moonflower seeds. Members of the Morning Glory family, they will make good use of your trellis.
Their big selling points are 1) a large, beautiful white flower which 2) blooms at night and 3) has an intoxicating scent.
They also attract bats, which eat mosquitoes, so it’s a multitasking wonder.
It is, however, toxic.
Thanks for the suggestion John, I’ll have a look at this. I do actually have a morning glory which has taken over the back wall. That wall becomes a wash of small purple circles in the morning only to repeat the performance anew the next morning.
I’ve planted another kind of morning glory around one of the palms, but unfortunately that has not taken too well. Maybe it is getting too much water as it is in the direct line of the sprinkler system, either that or the ground is too compacted with the palm’s root.
I think you’ll be pleased with 3″-4″ flowers on the Moonflower. The vine can go to 30′, but doubles over pretty nicely if you don’t have 30′ worth of space for it!
Don’t have a clue what’s happening to the Morning Glories under the palm. They don’t particularly like fertilizers much, though, so that’s a possible direction to look.