Nursery visit

I went down to the nursery as a shipment of plants is due this month-alas we have to wait for 2 more weeks as the shipment has not yet arrived. Meanwhile this is some of what they have. Mostly very large plants, not the 1-5 gallon sizes I prefer. I love these 2 frangipani (plumeria)



A towering palm planted on the grounds provides a “showpiece” for their huge selection of palms. Many people (and resorts) here buy large plants for instant landscaping, so the choice of small plants is very small. I’ve grown most of my palms from seeds collected from under palm trees as I can’t afford these large palms.




Fruit of the geiger tree

White cordia blooms


I love traveller's palms but on a dry island you have to spend hundreds on water to manage this...

At last some people seem to be interested in succulents and xeric plants so I am actually able to get a small selection

I got this one and love it. Sold as "cordyline" I think its actually yucca bright edge.


Big grasses: bamboo and sugar cane


To think my grandfather had 200 acres of sugar cane and I have to buy one plant now for $35...

The nursery has a range of unlabeled hibiscus-I've grabbed quite a few on various visits as different colors were in bloom-will post on those later

Pretty bougainvillea

Masses of ixora