at Gardening Gone Wild
My agaves-I believe sisalina, as native as can be here as I plucked them out of the undeveloped scrub. Well if I lived in Trinidad more I could show heliconias and brilliant vermilion chaconia and a hundred other spectacular native plants but on this desert island this is about it. Also shown with a native cacti-name unknown, and yes, it was also plucked from the scrub and is indigenous to the drier islands of the Eastern Caribbean. The fuchsia bloom of course is bougainvillea.
The above agave's sibling which bloomed last year, putting on quite a show while providing nectar for birds.
11 comments:
Nicole,
Thanks for your reply to Titania's site on my query on flowering Aloe.
I have yesterday found some in my neighbourhood and have posted the photos.
Like your photos, like the bouganville and alamanda. I live in New Zealand now, but I grew up in Borneo, the tropics like you.
By the way, I have been teaching my students about Anansi the spider, the story from West Africa and the Caribeans. Have you heard of it?
Cheers,
Ann
Thats one big agave!
An 8-ft tall agave is a beautiful monster indeed! It's good that you have a large garden for such gigantic and sharp plants.
Those are really cool. I can't get enough of agave.
I confess a certain prejudice
towards Agavaceas in general,
most have perfect architecture.
It is a matter of knowing the size
they reach after ten years before
planting any.. If not... the thorns
will remind you..
Nice blog!
from the Spanish speaking Caribbean,
The contrast of the spiny cactus against the softer leaves makes a nice photo!
These huge flowers are spectacular. Does this Agave die after flowering? Like the Agave attenuate does. I think the effort to bring forward this huge flower stem is probably very exausting, et voila!
Nicole~ ~ ~What a lovely garden you have. You mentioned teaching another to garden and I love that idea. When I first married many years ago my first house was next door to an older woman named Cora. Now Cora had a wonderful garden and taught me many things about gardening. Often I would step out my back door and see a small piece of a plant she had carefully layed there for me to plant. This woman was my garden mentor and I miss her greatly.
I have been to the caribbean often and have wondered Why I did not see more vegetable gardens there? One in each yard. Your weather is suitable for all season growing. Can you tell me why this is? I envy your February tomatoes! It is so nice to meet you.~ ~Ahrisha~ ~
Wonderful...look at the sharp little spines... and the flower is huge! gail
Yes Ann one of our literature books had Anansi the spider on its cover!
Thanks, Dirt Princess, Pam, lostlandscape, Gail Antigonon
Yes Jean, I have 16 types of agave and counting...
Tatiana, yes the gave did die but sent our many pups and bulbils.
Ahrisha: Because of slavery and colonialism many people see gardening as a "low class" thing and thus they try not to garden to show that they are not. LOL
Well the contest is done and results posted over at GGW early next week. Thanks for your entry and I am giving each photo bit of constructive criticism.
Way cool to see such unusual natives. Would like to see more of a garden setting . The first photo would be much stronger if it were cropped even tighter, though it still would not look like a garden...
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