INDIVIDUALITY IN FRANGIPANIS/PLUMERIAS

I HAVE NOTICED after some time that these trees flower at different times even if in the same urban context, residential, parks, gardens.

Ours are no different the first photo shows the only Frangipani I have seen with seeds every other five years. The flowers remain all the time.

However the following 3 flower in order.  February, March, April...The leaves fall, as the flowers twice a year. 

The cycle is completed with the visit of Seudophinx tetrio, a moth, twice a year. One, weird habit is that those munching in the yellow seem to like only yellow flowers.  And so on..
 The problem with these nice looking caterpillars is that in the absence of leaves, they will munch on the branches...destroying some of the beauty...

At any rate, these trees are among me favorites...Only the first, flowering the whole year, was bought in a nursery, the rest propagated at home...every flower has a different scent...the yellows for example remind yours truly of peaches.

Diseases? Rust...is the only one detected so far in almost a decade...that is that...

AGAVACEAE NORTH & WEST SIDES

YOU probably noticed climatic change in your eco-region/garden, high temperatures and/or drought. Here are some tokens of plants that may be useful in your garden in terms of resistance.

Thick leaves are perhaps your best bet.

Cryptostegia grandiflora FINAL RELOCATION

This vine was originally planted from seed in the north garden for privacy, noise reduction in 2014.  Some time later, I noticed too many  branches  growing mostly towards the next door property.

I decided to relocate it 30 days ago in January 2016.  The task was not as difficult as I thought,
however, I had to cut a great amount of thick roots, the most I have found in this kind of project so far.  A clean cut, with a hand pruner, increases significantly the possibility of survival, fast recuperation.

The need to cut every branch is also a difference from previous relocations, since it leaves the patient in absolute stress, decreasing the possibilities of recuperation, at that point I gave a 55 percent chance of total recovery.

The appearance of leaves 15 days later, gave me lots of joy, since it was the fastest recovery of any tree, vine or bush I have relocated.

Here is now in the east side garden, Cryptostegia grandiflora, with the Antigonon leptopus and a dead Bouganvillea.

WEST SIDE GARDEN FROM THE GROUND AND AIR

OUR GARDEN is really four as in cardinal points, rectangular with a different feeling/atmosphere in each side by the selection of plants in one hand, light exposure and width.

With climatic change some species have been relocated from one side to the other with more shade, but about the same temperature, others have been eliminated.

Some gardeners, the public in general believe this change is a scam, not true.  If you take gardening seriously, be aware, the high temperature increases transpiration tremendously, a problem not solved with irrigation.

Finally, even when some sides of the garden may seem more attractive than others for the beholder, I collect with biodiversity, the urban asphalt/context, other flora/fauna in mind, not just aesthetics.

At one point we had over 115 species, with the botanical inventory available for those interested and my own use.  It is useful to remember what is there and to solve problems of any kind.

The other important aspect of botanical inventories is the opportunity to understand that some species growing  spontaneously in our garden/yard are not as insignificant many may have think as in our previous post: Datura Stramonium.

INVENTORY
http://noalpendejismopaisajista.blogspot.com/2016/01/shb-botanical-inventory-2016.html
 

http://noalpendejismopaisajista.blogspot.com/2016/01/shb-families-botanical-inventory-2016.html

BETWEEN LONDON AND SAN JUAN: DATURA STRAMONIUM

I HAVE BEEN collecting and propagating plants for many years, however, it was not until the last ten years that I became aware through the practice, reading, investigation and research that gardening for lawns, palm trees, the focus on pretty flowers and or aesthetics/history was rather a sterile proposition.

Two books helped tremendously to change my ways:
The Once and Future Forest,  Leslie Jones Sauer, Island Press, 1998.
The Ecocriticism Reader, , Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm,
University of Georgia Press,1996.

More recently, The Unnofficial Country Side, Richard Mabey, Little Toller Books, 2010,  has given me a lot of pleasure and insight regarding biodiversity and ecology in our environment, urban/asphalt/concrete context, applied to our garden and/or any other garden in terms of focus/perspective, what a garden, landscape and parks should be.

One of the plants in our collection, Datura Stramoniun, is described and discussed:

"Late in 1970, I came across a case not unlike the hogweed scare. I was coming home on  the train one night, and for want of something better to read  picked up a copy of  British's Rail's Rail News that had been abandoned on the carriage floor.. On the news page was this report:

Hard on the heels of the giant hogweed reported in August Rail News, comes another rare and dangerous plant-the thorn- apple.
  It was spotted at New Milton station by retired chemist and local botanist, Bernard Hannan.  He told his next-door neighbor, Llewelyn Trudgeon, one of Waterloo's assistants. 
  The thorn-apple has a strong smell and its flowers are either purple or white. The nasty-looking seed pod is like a horse chestnut with spikes.
  Mr. Trudgeon was told by his botanist friend that the plant was poisonous and contained drugs which produced hallucinations and dilating pupils of the eyes.
  "It is very rare ans was last recorded in this country in 1962,' he added.
  Apparently the drug stramonium, which came from the plant, was once used for the alleviation of asthma. And it is believed wizards in medieval times used it.
  New Milton SM Desmond Mantle was told that the plant was in the station car park and arranged for it to be destroyed.
  After hacking down the 3 ft plant they dug up its roots and burned the lot".

Page 84

The Unnoficial Countryside

 

 

 

"What, then, are thorn-apple's credentials, that might justify it being offered a little more respect?

It was originally a native of Peru, and it was John Gerard who first grew it in  this country, in his garden in Holborn. So delighted was he by its showy trumpet flowers that he dispersed (it) through this land' -  as well as having fun with it in his 'surgery':

 

The juicy of  Thorn-apples boiled with hogs grease to the form of an unguent or salve, cures all inflammations whatsoever, all manner of burnings or scaldings, as well of fire, water, boiling lead, gun-powder, as that which comes by lightning, and that in very short time, as my selfe have found by my daily practise, to my great credit and profit.

The first experience came Colchester, where Mistress Lobel a merchant's wife there being most grievously burned by lightning, and not finding ease or cure in any other thing, by this found helpe

and was perfectly cured when all hope was past, by the report of Mr. William Ram publique Notarie of the said towne."

 

 

Now, it is time to rest. I have only one request, if you have a garden requiring irrigation, gas/oil/propane/electricity...then your garden does nothing to improve the countryside/urban context where you live, therefore, useless, sterile for biodiversity, ecology, landscape and the environment. 

that is that

 

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SHB SPECIES/ FAMILIES BOTANICAL REVISITED INVENTORY 2016

I joined for a short while some group with the name 'society' where I reside, however, there were no gardens, not one, period. Even though, the group complained about the lack of information regarding horticulture in general, within the group there were just isolated plants and irrelevant, useless comments in their company.

Here, for the first time Sociedad Horticultural Bouret, botanical families of most of our collection. I believe a garden, rigorous gardeners should have an available inventory for documentation,  it is helpful for oneself and may  be  to others.

SOCIEDAD HORTICULTURAL BOURET
 FAMILIES AND SPECIES INVENTORY
JULY 2016

 

ACANTHACEAE
Asistacia gangetica
Barleria repens
Dipteracanthus prostratus
Thumbergia erecta
Pseuderantemun reticulatum

 

AGAVACEAE
Dracaena marginata
Sansevieria
 

 

AMARILLIDACEAE
Crinum
Eucharis amazonica
Hymenocallis
Amarillis

 

AMARANTHACEAE
Alternatera brasiliana
Gomphera globosa

 

APOCYNACEAE
Catharanthus roseus
Plumeria rubra

 

ARACEAE
Aglaonema
Alocasia cucculata
Caladium

 

 

 

ASPARAGACEAE
Ophiopogon

ASCLEPIADACEAE
Cryptostegia grandiflora
Hoya 

 

 

CAMPANULACEAE
Hippobroma longiflora

 

COMMELINACEAE
Commelina elegans
Tradescantia pallida,
spathocea

 

CYPARACEAE
Cyperus involucratum

 

EUPHORBIACEAE
Jatropha
Pedilanthus tithymaloides
Euphorbia tirucallis

 

LILIACEAE
Aloe vera
Asparagus densiflorus/setaceum
Gloriosa superba
Hymenocallis

 

LOMARIOPSIDACEAE
Neprolepsis falcata
Microsorum scolopendum

LAMIACEAE
Plectantrus amboinicus

 

MALVACEAE
Hibiscus rosa sinensis
 

 

MALPIGHIACEAE
Malpighia glabra
Tristellateia australasie

 

NYCTAGINACEAE
Mirabilis siciliana
Bouganvillea
 

 

OCHNACEAE
Ochna thomasiana

 

OXALIDACEAE
Oxalis

 

OLEACEAE
Jazminun multiflorum/grandiflorum

 

ORCHIDACEAE
Phalaenopsis
 

 

PIPERACEAE
Peperonia pellucida

PORTULACEAE
Portulaca oleracea


POLYGONACEAE
Coccoloba uvifera
Antigonon leptopus

 

RUTACEAE
Murraya paniculata
 

 

RUBIACEAE
Gardenia augusta

 

URTICACEAE
Pilea serpilea

 

VERBENACEAE
Duranta erecta
 

 

TURNERACEAE
Turnera ulmifolia, subulata
diffusa

 

ZYGOPHYLLACEAE
Guaicum officinale


For Reference
Tropical Hornamentals
W. Arthur Whistler
Timberland Press 2000

Flowers of Puerto Rico
Edwin Miner Sola
Ediciones Servilibros
2008

http://noalpendejismopaisajista.blogspot.com/2016/01/shb-botanical-inventory-2016.html
 

 

SHB BOTANICAL INVENTORY 2016

UPDATING the inventory is a tedious job. However, it helps to focus, prepare for the future when you know what is there in the garden, particularly with the climatic change and coming dry weather and drought to pick plants that will be fine and eliminate those that will not.

Aloe vera
Amarilys
Asystacia gangetica
Asparagus  setaceous/densiflorus
Antigonun leptopus
Alternatera brasiliana
Allocasia cucullata
Aglaonema commutatum
Bryophylum pinnatum
Brunfelsia pausiflora
Barleria repens

Coccoloba uvifera
Cyssus hypoglauca
Capsicum frutenses
Cyperus involucratum

Commelina elegans
Crynum asiaticum
Cryptostegia grandiflora



Dieffenbachia maculata
Duranta erecta
Dipteracanthus prostratum
Dracaena marginata
Euphorbia tirucallis
Epyphillum oxipetalum
Hymenocallis
Hyloceres undatum
Eucharis amazonica
Hoya
Hippobroma longiflora
Hibiscus canabinus/rosa sinensis
Guaicum officinale
Gloriosa superba
Gardenia augusta


Jazminum grandiflorum
Malpighia glabra
Murraya paniculata
Mirabilis siciliana
Neomarica caerulea
Ochna thomasiana
Ophiopogon
Oxalis
Pedilanthus tithymaloides
Pylea serpyllicea
Plectantrus amboinicus
Plumeria rubra/lutea
Poliscias guilfoylei/fruticosa
Phalaenopsis
Pleomeles
Proiphys amboinensis
Pseuderantemum carrutersii
Rhipsalis
Ruellia/brittoniana/tuberosa


Stachytarpetha mutabilis
Sanseveria trifasciata/cilindrica
Scadoxus multiflorum
Cryptostegia grandiflora
Thunbergia erecta
Tradescantia pallida/spathocea
Trimezia martinisensis
Tristelatea australiasiae
Tulbaghia violacea
Turnera ulmifolia/diffusa/subulata
Zamia
Zephyrantes citrine


Another benefit of keeping an updated inventory is knowing those plants you have eliminated for particular reasons or those passing away.  This is vital when you decide to get new ones or decrease the lot.

This may help to realize if you are making mistakes in terms of maintenance, or weather, insects, pests are the culprits.

Attached is the link for the previous inventory, those readers/gardeners into research will notice the difference between then and now.

http://noalpendejismopaisajista.blogspot.com/2014/06/botanical-inventory-2014.html

that is that