Here is what blooms in March. Many of these mother plants can be grown at home in containers inside during the winter and then moved outside onto a patio or in a garden for the warm weather of summer.
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Front entrance |
Thunbergia Grandiflora in full bloom |
Variegated Bread fruit at the bottom of the stairs, tucked in by the trickling Water Fountain |
We grow a rare variety of Yellow Coffee Beans, in fruit in the Long House |
Scarlet Leadwort (Plumbago indica), another flower in full bloom at the foot of the stairs | Royal Jasmine, one of the most popular Jasmines we grow |
Succulent Dish Gardens, easy to grow and require very little water | Always lots of Succulent dish gardens ready for gift giving |
Ponderosa Lemon blossom | Ponderosa Lemon, this one is about the size of a baseball |
Pink Powder Puff or calliandra emarginata always has a mesmerizing presence | Another angle of pink powder puff amongst its sharply cut foliage |
New Zealand Tea bush - a wall ablaze with tiny red blooms | A close-up also known as Leptospermum scoparium 'Ruby Glow' |
Visitors from Blithewod Gardens, Gail Reed, garden manager on right and Kris Green, interpretive horticulturist on left http://www.blithewold.org/ | Tree Tomato, easy to grow and the fruit has a sweet custardy flavor, in our "Big House" |
Marmalade Plant (Streptosolen jamesonii) Bright orange flowers at the end of a bleak winter is a great sight! | Passion Flower 'Piressi'- Flower buds getting ready to open |
Just a few feet away, here is Passiflora Piressi in full bloom | Juvenile Jade flower buds hang in a long strand. They will not open for another week or two |
Jade Vine (Strongylodon macrobotrys) just opening with its unique turquoise flowers | The rare Jade Vine in full bloom, showing off its long chain of flowers |
This strand has been in bloom for almost a month and is at the end of its flowering cycle | Here is a short Video of Byron Martin, Logee's horticulturist talking about the Jade Vine |
Genista Canariensis close-up | Genista Canariensis- Canary Island Broom - This is delightfully fragrant and makes an excellent standard |
Another treat to see - the Fire Lily | Hibiscus 'The Path' is in bloom in a four-inch pot |
Dwarf Jamaican Heliconia stricta - These Flowers last for months | Fig in winter dress outside of our Begonia House |
Inside the Begonia House, warm and welcoming | Little Brother Montgomery Begonia |
Another shot of the Begonia House where we keep all of our mother Begonia plants | Our new propagation range, still looking bleak outside |
Inside our propagation range, Laurie, our Begonia grower, is tending her crop | We have lots of varieties of Camellias. This lovely soft pink one is called Camellia 'Pearl Maxwell' |