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Re: Jungle-porch Update: August

Jim, my tuberoses never bloom until September or even October.  They have
just begun to put up bud spikes.  They do like quite a bit of sun, although
mine have flowered in a spot with only about 4 hours of direct sun, and
lots of dappled shade.  They only bloom for one year, for me, then put out
lots of small offsets, which take three to four years to reach blooming
size...I just buy new ones each year.  They do smell heavenly, though!

Jennifer

At 01:13 PM 8/19/98 -0400, you wrote:
>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
>
>

Jennifer Scanlin, zone 7
jscanlin@earthlink.net
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