It is nearing winter here now but there are still some laggers doing their best to deny the colder weather,I thought some might like to see what is flowering today. Dwarf beehive ginger almost over. ( photo / image / picture from chocolate's Garden ) Bat plant. ( photo / image / picture from chocolate's Garden ) Double morning glory ( photo / image / picture from chocolate's Garden ) Dichorisandra thyrsiflora or blue ginger ( photo / image / picture from chocolate's Garden ) Dianthus ( photo / image / picture from chocolate's Garden ) Tillandsias ( photo / image / picture from chocolate's Garden ) Pink ground orchid ( photo / image / picture from chocolate's Garden ) Thai dancer[ginger] ( photo / image / picture from chocolate's Garden ) Dwarf golden banana just flowering. ( photo / image / picture from chocolate's Garden )
You have so many beautiful flowering plants in your garden. Most of them wouldn't grow here (except in a greenhouse) so it's lovely to see them all. :-D
Chocolate--to my North American eye, your plants look very exotic! Beautiful! Tell me, is the red thinging on the dwarf beehive ginger the flower, fruit or seedpod?
Chocolate, Everything is so different from what is here, at least in my part of the country. Thanks for sharing with us! I love the beehive ginger and I thought the blue ginger was a delphinium when I looked at it. It is a beautiful color! Everything else is very interesting. too. I want to order one of everything!
It's always a joy to see what's blooming in your gardens Chocolate! Such a nice variety of plants... and some very unusual ones for alot of us.
Hi Chocolate, Thanks for the tour of your flowers "Down Under". Very pretty. Does winter get very cold there?
chocolate, I love all your plants. I keep Gingers but I have never seen those. And the bat flower is beautiful. I have whites and blacks and love when they bloom. Barb in Pa.
Hi, thanks everyone, glad you enjoyed the photos. Cayuga...the ginger is a tuber and the red cones emerge above ground level and open up to produce flowers, when the flowers are covering the cone they look like beehives so that is why it has that common name.Some types have flowers with spots and they really look like bees.The cones can be different colours depending on type of ginger. This picture shows another type of flower with curled back petals. Waretop, Australia has a native bat plant...a green one which can grow to 6ft.They reseed like a weed almost, I dont have any, would like to get the brown one though. Another type of beehive ginger. ( photo / image / picture from chocolate's Garden )
Kay,Temperatures can go down to about 37f,not often though, stop laughing! I was born in New Zealand and lived there for 30 yrs so I know about cold and frozen hot water bottles and pipes etc, that is probably why we live here now.
Hi Chocolate, i just love those Beehive Gingers,..they could easily be mistaken for real Beehives and as for the Bat Plant,..so well named so similar to the name given. Tillandsias are looking very well for you,..so very tropical looking as are all of your beautiful plants,..thank you for posting those.
Waretop, just a further note on the ginger, maybe you have torch gingers which have lovely flowers at the end on the branches, I have one called costas which is a spiral torch and under the leaves it feels like velvet and the foliage is variegated[my favorite] grows up to 8ft. Flower of costas ( photo / image / picture from chocolate's Garden ) Spiral ginger with cordyline. ( photo / image / picture from chocolate's Garden )
chocolate, I have spiral ginger, varigated ginger and the flower a day. Even in the greenhouse it doesn't do great like at your house. LOL I love them all. Barb in Pa.
