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

June Blooms

Thanks, Carol, for hosting another

Blooms Day

Lots of lovely flowers in my garden. We start with "nature's collage": fuchsia bougainvillea and white oleander below the agave bloomstalk in the sky.

more bougainvillea


Gorgeous hibiscus



Cool whites
Plumeria pudica and my new frangipani



Hot reds and corals:
Aloe maculata, coral hibiscus, russelia, Mirandy rose

Roses

Though my subjects are quite limited I am pleased to be able to take part in this month's Gardening Gone Wild Picture Contest . After all, roses don't really thrive on my hot dry island, especially in the summer heat. For this same reason its not very often rose plants show up for sale.

This is a rose I acquired a few months ago when it was for sale at the nursery, a Mirandy rose. Mirandy is a Hybrid Tea Rose hybridized by Walter Lammerts in the US in 1945. It has a perfect rose form and a rich saturated velvet red color. So far it seems to be doing well, better that the other 6 varieties I bought a few years ago and which succumbed to the heat or whatever in 6 months. The plant has doubled in size in 6 months, something the other rose plants did not do.

Last week I got a small damask rose plant-these old fashioned types seem to do better here-so I have high hopes for that one.