Recent content by Geoff

The Huntington has several Adeniums growing outdoors in their gardens with temps getting down into the mid 20s every once in a while... all still alive, though none are obesum. Have seen obesums growing nicely outdoors in full, hot sun in some So California areas where temps never go below...

from personal experience, the cold ranges for Deuterocohnia are WAY off... I live in inland California where I can easily grow most Deuterocohnias outdoors totally exposed and most have not been cold damaged despite being snowed upon or having temps drop into the high teens multiple times...

On one of my visits to Pauleen's place in Hawaii we visited a garden not too far away that had many hundreds of bromeliads and we got munched by mosquitoes... Pauleen showed me some larger bromeliads with larvae in them. The main reason she refused to grow bromeliads on her property was...

Well, it's officially dead now

There's a thread on palm talk from last summer where Matty B, also in disbelief, photographs one about the same size in San Diego… I never would have believed it, either, had he not posted those photos.

Hey thanks again... how does the white one have a name if it's not official? What does it take to get a plant registered?

OK, here are a few more I don't think I have down. The third white one I have as Felicia, but I can find no reference to this on the internet, so I suspect I either misspelled it, or got it totally wrong. Anyway, thanks again. Geoff

Visited the incredible garden of our moderator and girl friend, Angela... who is a Hibiscus nut. But I did not have enough time to ask her what all of her plants were, so here are some photos of plants I did not get identified: First and last one might be the same thing...