Marsha's grolist photos 2015/2016

[ginger2778]

Another leaning pineapple, with a tropical milkweed plant, and I see a Virginia Creeper I better go and pull right away.

[ginger2778]

The largest of the 5 pineapples, already picked, pencil for size. They don't grow as large as Dole, but they are soooo much sweeter.

[KarenO]

my goodness! so amazing growing orchids outdoors and tropical fruits. that mango! just wow And I thought having a pear tree here was a big deal
KarenO

[Fiishergurl]

Marsha... love love love all your photos of your beautiful plants and flowers. Awesome!!

Ginny

[ginger2778]

Thank you Ginny.
Karen- having a pear tree is a big deal. The stone fruit, apple, and pear trees can't grow here, except just a few. Not enough chill hours. We missed the blueberry chill hour window too.

[oakley]

Wow. So cool. (well, ahem, hot as in climate)...Gorgeous flowers!

I have rhubarb and chives. Just two purple snow peas so far though lots of flowers...tomatoes just knee-high...some salad barely, basil because i bought a giant cheater start at the local nursery...

[roper2008]

Well, I know where I am going to retire now. Plantation Florida!

[Andrey_BY]

Great photoes and fruit, Marsha!
Hope to be able to visit real fruitful tropics one day

[sjamesNorway]

Just Beautiful! You have such a green thumb, Marsha. (I don't envy you the heat and humidity, though.)

Steve

[efisakov]

Marsha, your photos are great. I hope one day to move to Florida and have garden as good as yours. My DH wishes to have persimmon tree. Our son LOVES mangoes. We all love pineapples. A friend, who is originally from Philippine, showed me how to cut it without loosing most of the juicy goodness.
Does avocado grow in Fl?
How is Pompano Beach? Few years ago we almost purchased an apartment in two story building with a boat dock. The only problem we had with the association there was NO PETS. We had our little dog that we love too much.
O boy, I am dreaming again.
Marsha, great job keeping it all nice and clean. Beautiful flowers too. So inspiring.

[ginger2778]

Originally Posted by oakley

Wow. So cool. (well, ahem, hot as in climate)...Gorgeous flowers!

I have rhubarb and chives. Just two purple snow peas so far though lots of flowers...tomatoes just knee-high...some salad barely, basil because i bought a giant cheater start at the local nursery...

Yes, this is a seriously hot climate. We don't even get frosts anymore. Not for the last 7 years. Thank you for the nice words.

[ginger2778]

Originally Posted by Andrey_BY

Great photoes and fruit, Marsha!
Hope to be able to visit real fruitful tropics one day

If you come, you have to promise to visit me. We have fantastic not humid bright sunny cool winters here, that's when I grow my tomatoes.

Originally Posted by roper2008

Well, I know where I am going to retire now. Plantation Florida!

Come on down, be my neighbor, well swap mango varieties.

Originally Posted by sjamesNorway

Just Beautiful! You have such a green thumb, Marsha. (I don't envy you the heat and humidity, though.)
Steve

Thank you for the nice compliment, but most of the fruit trees and pineapple are " set it and forget it" I do nothing except cast some citrus lime avocado fert that I get at HD out to the dripline every January. They are so much easier to grow than tomatoes.

Originally Posted by efisakov

Marsha, your photos are great. I hope one day to move to Florida and have garden as good as yours. My DH wishes to have persimmon tree. Our son LOVES mangoes. We all love pineapples. A friend, who is originally from Philippine, showed me how to cut it without loosing most of the juicy goodness.
Does avocado grow in Fl?
How is Pompano Beach? Few years ago we almost purchased an apartment in two story building with a boat dock. The only problem we had with the association there was NO PETS. We had our little dog that we love too much.
O boy, I am dreaming again.
Marsha, great job keeping it all nice and clean. Beautiful flowers too. So inspiring.

Thank you Ella, yes we have groves of avocados here, but there's a fairly new disease attacking them all, thousands of trees and commercial dollars lost. I fear we won't have them in 10 years.
I never saw persimmons here, but we do grow pomegranites, lychees, longans, papaya, and I am going to buy a cacao tree to grow right under my mango, since it likes shade. The fruit surtounding the cocoa seeds is very sweet and buttery.
Pompano Beach has some lovely areas.

[Starlight]

Your pics make my mouth water with all those tropical fruits. They so expensive in the grocery store. Your Tibouchina is stunning too. Love that plant. I bought me a huge tree like plant of it one year and we just get to cold for it here. Croaked the first winter I had it. Hundreds of dollars down the drain. I didn't feel so bad about the money, but felt bad that this huge Tibouchina that had been growing for so many years was dead in a matter of months. Lesson learned to watch when pushing the zones.

Do you eat the Star fruit? If so what does it taste like and how do you eat it?

[sdambr]

Wow, that is really impressive, all the fruit and flowers make me want to move to sunny Florida.
Not to mention two tomatoes seasons.

[Barb_FL]

Love the pics!

Your picked pineapple looks about store bought size. Another reason why the homegrown pineapples taste better is we can leave them on the plant until they yellow or start to yellow. I've found when planting the tops will produce small fruits, but then the shoot left on the mom plant will produce bigger fruits and any additional side shoots replanted will produce much quicker than just the tops. Then you have the mom plant which will produce a big pineapple, etc. A wonderful cycle.

Having fresh fruit like that makes the 5 months summer more bearable. Lots of nice shade under your mango tree.