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Click for fullsize picture. Taken at Selby Gardens in Florida. An orchid from Selby Gardens, Florida. Pride of Barbados. Caladium 'Gingerland' showing one leaf just unfurling. KING HUMBERT PINK LUNA SWIRL Turnera diffusia. Host plant for Mexican Fritillary butterflies. Datura metel triple Cajun Hibiscus 'Chartreuse Rose' Cajun Hibiscus 'Bold Idea' Devils Trumpet 'Black Currant Swirl' Egyptian Papyrus. Red Gladiolus. Back lit hibiscus blossom Tropical hibiscus Palm leaf, photographed in a greenhouse at Drummond Castle gardens, Perthshire. Hoya carnosa 'Krimson Queen' just a few of my indoor garden plants. just recently started my hand at indoor plants. maybe a yr now. Morticia-Giant Corpse Flower, Amorphophallus titanum Native to Sumatra, Franklin Park Zoo, Boston, MA June 2012 Ivy as a houseplant Bonsai from Wally world. I love the fragrance and the blooms of the beautiful Night Blooming Cereus. This was my last bloom of the year. The flowers open after dark and are faded by daylight. This was made about 9:00 PM with a flashlight for light. Purple Passion on our tropical island! Tropical Parrot Paradise - Parrots frolick in my shade garden of hostas and elephant ears! A lotus to Lord Ganesha Milky bloom Orchid Orchid Jamaican beauty. Pretty pink plumeria African Voilet African Voilet Hawaiian Plumeria we brought back from our honeymoon trip in 2006. They started out as sticks about 6 inches long and now they are trees that put out these beautiful blossoms every summer. They smell wonderful too! Aleaf on a palm just starting to open. A very tiny leaf on very large houseplant. Hibiscus mutabilis. The flower starts off white then ages to pink. A stunning tropical plant A collection of Plumeria from our garden. One of the most beautiful tropical flowers Mandevilla-Alice Dupont on homemade trellis Castor Bean Trumpet Lily Seed Pod-opened. Looks somewhat carnivorous... Fittonia leaves Bromeliads on display at a local garden centre purple passion flower vine One of my orchids in the window, so white and iridescent it was hard to get a good image of the lovely flowers. Taken with a 50mm lens soft focus, taken inside no flash. Saved from the cast off heap, this african violet is now healthy and blooming like crazy. Macro lens, taken without flash in a north window. Nicolaia elator or Torch ginger. Hibiscus up close Orchid bloom at the Miller Conservatory in Avon, Ohio. A beautiful Corkscrew Vine that I overwinter. It also is very scented. This is a standard of a Red Shrimp Plant. Manihot esculenta Anyamani in bloom Tropical hibiscus up close. Pink and beautiful. This is a peach tropical hibiscus grown as a houseplant What a treat when this Hibicus blooms. Mandevilla with sunlit center This is one of my past Drosera spatulata growing in a semi natural created bog. This is one of my current Drosera hybrids that I am propagating. It is a D. intermedia x capillaris White Christmas Cactus Double Red Hibiscus Crinum Forced daffodil 'Delibes' Close-up of a striking bloom on a streptocarpus A phalaenopsis glows in the early morning light A wonderfully pink Phalaenopsis that has found the perfect place in our home near the kitchen window. This orchid type is quite easy to grow and gives vivid colors even during the winter months. Lotus blossom I saw this heliconia plant while visiting the island of Grenada. All the tropicals were beautiful, but I found this one to be the most interesting. Cabbage on a stick/Hawaiian Palm (Brighamia insignis) enjoying a early fall day. Photo should be viewed as portrait (not landscape) Late summer blooms on my Erythrina crista-galli tree growing in my yard in Sacramento, northern California. White variety of Hibiscus coccineus blooming in my yard in Sacramento, northern California, summer of 2012. canarina canariensis My son's orchid in B&W. Orchid abstract This EE is my very most favorite in the greenhouse. It thrives and loves shade and I have divided it for insurance. yard hibiscus with a ruby throated hummingbird feeding on it hibiscus with a praying mantis feeding on a bumblebee Veins Elephant Ear leaf I believe this is a Cordyline Glauca. It came from a clipping, rooted, then potted. Within a couple of weeks it gave me a beautiful bloom. Datura Nun's orchids schubertii allium Oh Zamia, Zamia, where for art thou Zamia . . . My Zamia, oh how my Zamia is growing up. My Zamia is the center of attraction. Weird hibiscus bloom. Hibiscus and October rose blooming in my window. Streptocarpus Bristol's Costume Party Streptocarpus Christmas Eve Koko, the cat stares in wonder at the beauty of winter's amaryllis! I visited my old school to take pictures for my 7th grade yearbook contest. It had just rained so I took several pictures of plants, and tryed to get the tree frogs. In the back of the school I found a butterfly garden, i saw this strange purple flower. I took several pics, this is my favorite. Caladium 'White Christmas' and salvia 'Salsa'. Brugmansia, Fushcia, Abution megapotamicum, Pelargonium Eucomis bicolor Coral Seas Passion Flower Hibiscus Cone Heads. We saw many tropical plants while on the island of St. Thomas but this was one of the most unusual ones. It is called a monkey tail plant or a chenille plant. The red part is made up of tiny blooms making it fuzzy looking like chenille. Ground orchids Ground Orchids We fell in love with St. Thomas when we visited I loved the shape and color of this beautiful orchid that was on display at the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco, CA. Dendrobium spectabile MASD Falcon Sunrise Loving Plumeria we had to grow it here in Texas. We just over winter it in our garage. Amaryllis with four flowers blooming Passiflora Kigelia africana (Lam.) Benth (syn: Kigelia pinnata (Jacq.) DC; Crescentia pinnata Jacq.), the Sausage tree Tropical tree with thick odd-pinnate leaves, having 7-9 oblong to obovate leaflets and scarlet large flowers in drooping panicles. Fruit cylindrical, 30-50 cm. A bat pollinated Avenue tree. Jatropha gossypifolia L., Bellyache bush, cotton-leaf-physicnut Ornamental bush with purplish palmately-lobed leaves with glandular hairs on stalks and margins and maroon small flowers in clusters. Photographed in Delhi, India Purple Gloxinia Dracaena Marginata tricolor Ixora is a tropical here in our Zone 7 climate, and I love the mutation on this bloom. Windowsill African Violet Begonia benariensis Begonia and Water Globe Triple Frilled Datura Amethyst Hibiscus A Vanda orchid showing off! Fendler's Steli orchid Blc. Hawaiin Passion “Carmela” Hoya kanyakumariana flowers A woman gave me a cutting of her Hoya carnosa that had been in her family for around 40 years. It bloomed this year! Cat's Whiskers This is solanum maxima - a houseplant that has a wonderful perfume as well as an extraordinary flower. Brugmansia Flamenco This is a close up of a fabulous orchid which has a lovely aroma - Mtssa.Shelob"Webmaster". I've had this orchid for @ 5 years, faithfully flowers every year with several (up to 5 sprays with these insect looking flowers custom made container with house plants My Angels Trumpet first bloom, the flower was over 10 inches long. plumbago Banana flower hiding under leaf. Closeup of a Vriesea Tillandsia mooreana x kalmbacheri A Hoya carnosa variety grown from a cutting that was given to me by a friend. Photographed in my back yard. Neofinetia falcata.Back to the contest main page. |
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