Palm Spotlight: Chamberyonia macrocarpa “Flamethrower”
A moderately large palm with a single trunk, it maintains about 6 – 8 very stiff pinnate (feather like) fronds . The trunk will keep its deep green color until maturity and will hold the frond ‘scars’ leaving behind white rings up the trunk. Some cultivars have a molted green effect much like a watermelon. […]
Horticulture Feature: What’s in a Name?
Have you ever looked at a plant name and wondered who in the world put those letters together like that? You may say that scientific names are impossible to pronounce because there are sometimes things you recognize mixed with parts that don’t fit together in normal speech. Usually those long, strange words seem all Greek. […]
Horticulture Feature: Begonias
There are nearly 1800 species of begonias ranging Central and South America and Africa and Asia. Begonias vary from cool climates to the tropics and from epiphytes to terrestrial. In south Florida rex begonias and tuberous begonias don’t perform well outdoors because of our heat and humidity. Many of the cane begonias and tropical types […]
Horticulture Feature: Orchids
The South Florida orchid show season is finished since the sunburn hot Redland Orchid Festival is past. Your warm growing orchids are just getting happy though, so lets talk about them a bit. Flowering takes a lot from a plant and in nature some orchids can live 75 years, flower maybe 10 times and only […]