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| Banana fruit at Allen gardens |
We recently took a trip to allen gardens to see the flowering variegated century plant, with a time span for flowering once every 30 years ( and for Canada its around 70 years ), you can understand why its important to see it while you can. While everything was great, flowers were all in bloom,
I couldn't help but be disappointed by the lack of info on plants, heck.. the majority of the time there wasn't even a name tag, am I wrong for wanting more I thought ?
There was one fruit tree labeled ( kinda surprised there weren't more edibles really, only 6 fruit trees in the whole place ) And surprisingly, a lot of the cacti, bananas, and orchids are very common nowadays.
I don't know, maybe I was expecting to much, Just thought that a place with such history would have some really REALLY rare plants, maybe being a foodie didn't help either, I was hoping to much for something Ive never seen.
Ahh well...
I should look on the bright side, they had a very impressive set of bananas ( good 30/40 ft ), some were flowering!. there jade vine was
stunning, we got to see a turtle, They have a cacti that looks like it came out of mario bro's!, I realized how much I want birds in my greenhouse AND how much I want a waterfall in my house.
My closing statement.
I call for a renegade labeling of Allen gardens, label everything you can!!, if you know a lot about plants lets get this done! WE CAN DO IT!
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| Musa Banana fruiting at Allen gardens |
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| Strawberry guava fruiting |
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| Some type of datura, Do you know? |
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| Bougainvilla AKA Paper flower tree - (THANKS FOR THE HELP CINTIA!) |
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| Jade vine AKA Strongylodon macrobotrys flowering |
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| Jade vine flower ( I want this plant! unreal looking flower) |
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| Crown of thorn red flowers |
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| Agave filifera AKA thread agave |
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| No name on cacti |
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| Crown of thorns yellow flower |
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| Variegated century plant AKA Variegated agave Americana |
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| Variegated century plant flowering stalk |
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| Allen Gardens century plant (agave americana) flowering, took roughly 70 years to flower |
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| Mountain aloe |
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| Mountain aloe (base) |
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| No name cacti, If you know what this is please help. |
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| Fig tree with fruit |
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| Fig tree to the left ( can you spot the kale and olive tree?) |
If it wasn't for the fact that I grow most of these myself Im not sure how others would know what they were looking at, as nothing here was labeled, shame.
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| Another pond with a few goldfish |
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| ?????what is that blue flowering plant????? |
Nothing here was labeled either, but a few I could decipher, there was a Calamondin in the back and a kumquat of some kind beside it ( its the tree with orange fruit at the far left in the back ) Everything else I have no clue ( except for some type of cycad right under the blue flower )
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| There was no name on around the plant, if anyone knows what this is please chime in |
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| Waterfall display ( is it wrong I want this in my house?, lol ) |
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| Queen sago fern |
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| epiphyte AKA areophyte or air plant |
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| Epiphyte flowering ( air plant flower ) |
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| Turtle getting some sun on a rock |
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| Heliconia |
