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Jungle-porch Update: August

Well, the season's almost over and autumn's coming.  Flowers have
flowered and fruits have fruited. Leaves are leaving.:O)  The porch
jungle's gone through some changes since April.

The homalomena has flowers, which is kind of exciting to me even if they
are some of the least colorful things in the botanical world.

The butterfly bush that was waiting for a transplant to freedom got red
spider and curled up on me.

The mutant Asplenium has grown...and grown...and grown.  It's actually
quite majestic-looking now, at least when August temps don't have it
panting over the side of the pot.

The candy-jar African violet finally flowered!  

The delphinium seedling that I really should have gardened a while ago
is still growing.  Maybe the sheltered childhood will give it a chance
to grow enough leaves to keep ahead of the slugs next year?

My Fatshedera went leggy...I'm still considering my options on this one.

Pothos is glorious.  It's really showing color and just stretching its
way out of the pot.

Spider plant is flowering, soon to be spidering.

The rubber tree is...well, it's doing whatever rubber trees do, which
apparently includes growing rather slowly.

The monster is still on the move.  The purple wave is still flowering
profusely (five months of flowers!) and it looks like the only thing
that'll check the thing is frost (and I'm not certain about that!) 

The bromels are doing great, growing, growing, growing!  The Aechmea I 
rescued from the dry-as-dust bargain shelf threw FIVE offsets and is 
still alive itself.  I have three babies growing on the Vriesia
carinata.
The tillandsia (airplant type) is fine as well as the Spanish moss.

The tuberoses are still not flowering or budding.  Anyone ever grow
these
and when do they set buds?

I unpotted my sprekelia in preparation for storage yesterday and the
biggest 
bulb is gone.  Bulb maggots!  Ick.  The others are pretty healthy,
though.

I have crinum bulblets that I got from a friend on another list waiting
to 
go into the ground.  They're tearing up a lot of paper towels trying to
dig 
themselves into currently nonexistent soil...

Succulents are doing great.  One of my cacti still has flower buds. 

Mandevilla never did flower yet.  It seems to be growing out from the
joints, 
though, so I can still hope.

Passiflora finally got "hooped" and is currently trying to see how fast
it can
get around the circle.  

Hoya seems to have just stopped doing anything.

Ponytail palm is...well, it's a ponytail palm.  That's the best
description I can give...

The "temporarily" potted sempervivums are still bound.  I never did get
around
to putting them out.

Haworthia is flowering _again_! (No, this isn't the science fiction
star...that was gasteria)

Orchid cactus is jointing off, but I haven't seen any sign of flower
buds yet.  
Of course, I can give it time.  It was rooted less than a year ago.

Parlor palm keeps putting out fronds.  It's only a little one (2" pot)
but it's healthy.

Well, that's it, I think.  Now I just have to worry about whether or not
to leave them 
on the enclosed porch for the winter or bring them downstairs and get a
light setup.
If I knew how cold it actually got on the porch, I wouldn't worry one
way or another,
but it was just closed in last fall and I wasn't paying much attention
to exact temperatures
since I only got interested in houseplants around March of this year.

Oh, well...we'll find out eventually...

-- 
Jim Gray 
Quality Assurance, Tipton
jjg2@c-cor.com
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