Gardening in Fuerteventura

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

I feel a bit selfish enjoying my garden at the moment and thinking about the people in La Palma who would love to breathe the fresh air and be without the ash everywhere but perhaps one of them reads our forum and knows we are thinking about them losing their homes and gardens. I'd gladly add my flowers to the ones they dropped by helicopter today over the cemeteries that they couldn't visit. 😘

  

  

  

  

  

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

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[windermeregolfer]

WOW WOW and another WOW Tamara

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

Does anyone recognise this plant? Grown up as a seedling in amongst a milkweed I bought a while back. It's about 2 feet tall, single stem, leaves are quite large and soft.



Something good or a weed?

[Johnrgby]

Asclepias curassavica L.   Tropical milkweed???

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

Thanks John. That's the plant lower in the picture with the orange flowers. It's the plant that's grown taller with much larger leaves that I'm trying to id.

[Johnrgby]

Thanks John. That's the plant lower in the picture with the orange flowers. It's the plant that's grown taller with much larger leaves that I'm trying to id.

Tamara, I know less than nothing about plants, but I have a very good friend who is a botanist, and he is 90% sure the flower is Milkweed

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

My poinsettia shrub/tree is just about at it's best. I'm so not looking forward to the forecast bad Weather later in the week, it could decimate it, the flower heads are so heavy.

 

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

The African Tulip trees are in bloom in Puerto - this one was near to Rocasa. I did think about having one in my garden but the online blurb made out they get enormous very quickly!

 

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

The last sowing of Adenium (Desert Rose) wasn't very successful but some new pods were ripe today so I've had another go. Each pod had approx 50 seeds!

  

After sowing them as normal I watched a YouTube video showing them being germinated in water and then planted as tint seedlings - I'll be trying that with the next pod!

I've got loads of pods ripening at the moment so if anyone would like some to try for themselves just give me a shout! I can guarantee my seeds are fresher than any you'll get online, and mine are free to be collected! (Fresh is important for germinating Adenium.)