Brownea

Our Brownea tree is 35 years old. It was damaged by the storms Andrew and Katrina, but it is still probably the largest of its kind in a private garden.

The cold winter of 09-10 hurt the tree and the Brownea didn't flower last spring.

Bro. negrilensis

The Clerodendrum flowers for 4 months in the winter

This is Cleradendrum x speciosum

This was a 4 foot high Ae Ae pup

It started with very light green lines. Then the new leafs were total white. The pup was cut out. Then the pup grew a new pup that was all white.

Onc sphacelatum is 2 months early

This orchid is in more light then my big plant. The one that is in less light shows no flower stems.

We have started the Ae Ae bananas

I just cut a few yellow bananas at a time and it will give us bananas to eat for 4 weeks.

Tecomanthe dendrophylla is in our old oak tree

The flowers fall on the grass and hide some of the acorns.

I took take down this staghorn fern

It was growing on the trunk of the mamey tree for 30+ years.

Guzmania lingulata

The large amount of acorns this year caused the damage to the flower and the leaves.

Adenium blooming in the winter

I had this breadfruit for 3 years

On Sept. 13 09 it looked perfect.

On Jan. 13 10 it was damaged and died March 10.

But I made a air-layer June 13 09

In the fall the air-layer went to a park. It was planted in the spring of 2010. I don't know it if it alive.

Resurrection fern (Polypedium polypodiodes)

These are young ferns on the trunk of our big oak tree. The resurrection fern will sometimes grow in the orchid pots that hang in the trees. The fern will even grow on the tile of the roof.

Lotus from the summer

Waterlilies from the summer

Bc. Mt. Hood 'Mary' AM/AOS

The 3 flowers on one stem is a great show.

Bc. Mt. Hood 'Mary' AM/AOS 12 25 08 was bigger then today's because there is only one flower on the stem.

Little Red, for lack of a real name

Ctna. Why Not

Ctna. Why Not is always in bloom. We have 12+ pots and they take there times..

This is a different clone then the one on Jan.4 2011.

This orchid Seems To Have Three A Lips

On Jan 18 the plant opened all of the flowers.

Cattleya Earl 'Imperialis'

Milt. Binotii x Milt. Motto Grosso

This is the second flowering of the year for it to bloom.

This is the same flower, only the sun was behind the flower.

The Pansy Can Come Back To Coral Gables

The winter looks like it might be could enough for a pansy.

Ctna. Why Not

Ctna. Why Not blooms off and on all year.

A Hybrid Orchid Growing On A Mango Tree

It gets a little fertilizer, but that is all.

Broughtonia negrilensis

This orchid species lives in the jungle of Jamaica and on some of some of the trees in my garden.