Watch This Tropical Garden Grow

heaven !!! Any idea where that temporary paradise was created? And castors there went bananas :)

-- tropicals lover - Katherine, Ontario, Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

I have no idea, but I can find out for you from the fella

-- Hooked on Gardening.....Ontario zone 5b

Please do find out…I would love to know too.

-- Xploreorganics, 5b Canada, LFD 06-20

Cincinatti Ohio, Zone 6a

More info on the guy and his albums

http://community.webshots.com/user/jurassicdaryl

-- Hooked on Gardening.....Ontario zone 5b

My castor bean plants are going gangbusters indoors

-- Hooked on Gardening.....Ontario zone 5b

Are your castors leggy and tall and need staking? They are way too tall and thin to my liking – I must have started them too soon…Most of them developed 1st true leaves by now and I was planning to plant them out but with minus temps coming our way this next few days I might need to bring them back home from the porch instead…
Bullseye, how are your coco yams doing? Mine start to pick up like crazy – bunches of authentic elephant ears – thanks again for the tip about buying them from an ethnic grocery store – cool deal :)
I’ve also started an experiment with an edible ginger – I have a piece of it submerged 1/3 in water in a glass – a nice green shot keeps emerging…

-- tropicals lover - Katherine, Ontario, Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

Hard to believe that was one year. Wow.

-- the day you quit learning is the day you quit living.

Nanumi…..here you go

castors

-- Hooked on Gardening.....Ontario zone 5b

Wow with a start like that they will be humongus this year.Love castors

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

someone sent me seeds a while ago and now I can’t find them

These are nice looking plants

Now I did put my zone and province in, hope it takes

-- NS Zone 5B 200 KM East of Halifax cheers Bunting------Having a place to go – is a home. Having someone to love – is a family.

It has! I think mine is there as well!

-- poisoncontrol, there is to much poison in the world: let's eradicate it!

Hey Bunting and poisoncontrol, do not worry so much about it. It is nice to see where you are from but not a necessity!
poisoncontrol, yours doesn’t show but on your profile we see where you are from.
if you need some help with zones and what’s not, let us know: bunch of friendly and helpful people here!

-- Eklectic, Follow my Bliss, South East Ontario 5a

E

I thought I had put in on here but didn’t until this am

I knew it showed in my profile so thought it showed here to until someone mentioned in a post we should show them

I don’t mind any one knowing where I live

But it is nice to show zones because it helps others help us

-- NS Zone 5B 200 KM East of Halifax cheers Bunting------Having a place to go – is a home. Having someone to love – is a family.

Yes….when we know your zone and location, it helps others when they ask a question, to know if the answers they are getting applies to their area. No one cares where you live, but on a forum likes this, it helps

Bon….They have got bigger since then, and they are dying to get out of those pots and into the ground. I have the red one and the green one that is supposed to get to about 15ft

Bunting….some of us know who you are, Carolyn aka butterfly in NS :-)

-- Hooked on Gardening.....Ontario zone 5b

Whoopie, no big deal

I have nothing to hide. Do you?

-- NS Zone 5B 200 KM East of Halifax cheers Bunting------Having a place to go – is a home. Having someone to love – is a family.

How can I, afterall I share my garden prgress on here for all to see :-) At the end of the day, this is not a telephone chat, it’s a forum where the visual of what is being talked about is key

-- Hooked on Gardening.....Ontario zone 5b

You are so right :) Bulleyes

hmmm in my profile I put how far I was from halifax

now see if it took

-- NS Zone 5B 200 KM East of Halifax cheers Bunting------Having a place to go – is a home. Having someone to love – is a family.

I believe my zone shows …. 5b. Is this sufficient?

-- blooz 5b - You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. ~author unkown

My friend Blooz, it is more than sufficient … and yeh, we are in the same gardening zone!!! :-)

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b

Me too 5b

lost of B’s around here. Tee hee hee

hear me buzzing, snicker snicker, lol,lol but I feel more like snoozing ZZZZzzzzz

-- NS Zone 5B 200 KM East of Halifax cheers Bunting------Having a place to go – is a home. Having someone to love – is a family.

I have one pocket that is 6A zone. it is sheltered and all on the south side

I love that garden

I did post it where the pool was couple of weeks ago

I don’t see many of us with zone on 6 or more

we are mostly all zone 5 or 5b’s

-- NS Zone 5B 200 KM East of Halifax cheers Bunting------Having a place to go – is a home. Having someone to love – is a family.

Be nice to have a micro climate garden. You’re gardens are lovely Bunting …. lots of work though.

-- blooz 5b - You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. ~author unkown

Thnaks Blooz

I haven’t been outside yet this year only once for a bit

Too much work to do and an exam coming up for work and the pass mark is high

85% and here I m posting on here daily, lol,lol

I should be shot

-- NS Zone 5B 200 KM East of Halifax cheers Bunting------Having a place to go – is a home. Having someone to love – is a family.

Bunting,
You have to relax every so often, so might as well be with friends! :-)

And then when you are refreshed,you go back to studying!

Who says you cannot take a few breaks in a day!!!

-- Eklectic, Follow my Bliss, South East Ontario 5a

I agree with ‘E’, Bunting. Ought to take a break from time to time but perhaps easier

said than done.

-- blooz 5b - You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. ~author unkown

I tire extremely easy and fall asleep at the puter or even meals

This old bod runs down by noon. lol,lol

so I did have a snooze today

I had a bit more energy after. Got a lot done

I guess I really needed it. It took me 5 min to drift off

Wow I ‘d like to have the energy I had 20 years ago. Where did it go? lol,lol Does this mean I am getting old? Lol inside my head says not but… lol,lol

My head says I am baddddd. lollol

I feel much better thanks

-- NS Zone 5B 200 KM East of Halifax cheers Bunting------Having a place to go – is a home. Having someone to love – is a family.

Power naps really do help recharging the battery. Glad you are feeling better, Bunting.

-- blooz 5b - You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. ~author unkown

Bunting, I too am glad you are feeling a wee-bit better. I say, take as many naps as you need, if they help. Nothing wrong with that. Take care and remember to pace yourself as much as you can.

And … there are a lot of us who wish we had the energy we had 20 years ago!!! LOL!!!! Heck, even 10 years ago for that matter!!! :-)

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b

Let’s not forget the topic of this thread eh

-- Hooked on Gardening.....Ontario zone 5b

Hi bullseye,

Thanks for reminding us old folk to stay on the straight and forward on this thread!:-)

Friends no more chatting on this thread!! ;-)

And I am very happy to announce that I FINALLY found a bulb for Elephant Ear!
I have been looking everywhere around here since you guys started talking about all those neat plants!!

-- Eklectic, Follow my Bliss, South East Ontario 5a

Bunting,

Perhaps more frequent breaks and stretches from the PC. Read article which stated too many ppl do not take enough breaks from PC’s. Give it a try.

“E” Glad you were able to locate the E.E. bulb. There are many ethnic grocery stores around which sell eddos, taros which are much less costly than going through a nursery or seed catalogue.

-- blooz 5b - You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. ~author unkown