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Category: Garden, Flowers and Citrus in Orlando, FL | Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 2:52 am

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I am here in Orlando, FL hoping we will get some rain soon. It has been 20 days since we have had any rain here. I have to depend on my sprinkler system for the yard and plants to get enough water.

I have two large pony tail plants in my yard and they both sprouted small pony tail plants out of the trunk of the tree. I sawed off the 7 plants and hope to get them to grow, I used Root Tone on the stems before I planted the trees. The two mature pony tail trees I have in the yard started out as 8 inch plants about 25 years ago. I kept the trees on my patio for years before I put them in the yard.

I like growing plants that bloom or have pretty leaves. The most fun is rooting plants to get more plants for my yard. My favorite types are Bromeliards, Caladiums and Amaryllis. These plants are easy to take care of here in Orlando with our warm winters. The airplants I have are coming into their blooming season where they turn red and have purple flowers in the center of each plant. All year they look light green. They are on cypress wood.

I am growing orchids on a ficus tree that has been on my pool deck for 25 years, I tie the plants on the limbs with moss, fish line and stretch dog wrap around the moss and roots. I cover the orchids with frost proof material when the weather drops to the mid 30's in the winter. I also put light bulbs under the material for heat. I sew the frost proof cloth into pillow shape and slide the cloth over the tree and use clothes-pins to keep everything tight.


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Frank wrote on Tue Oct 19, 2010 4:21 am:

"I am growing orchids on a ficus tree that has been on my pool deck for 25 years,"

Would love to see photos of this :)

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orlandotwin wrote on Sat Oct 23, 2010 2:04 am:

My orchids are not blooming this month so I put up some older photos of past blooms on these orchids. The orchids are all tied to the ficus tree.

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