Bored? Are you kidding? I love seeing your garden and all the beautiful tropical plants. Never knew about the pink mini crinum or that one could grow Bolivian sunset outside. Your hibiscus are gorgeous.

These make this cold, dreary morning a little more palatable, Jim. Everything looks beautiful. I had the white morning glory "bush" this year that grew to about ten feet, but the freeze took care of it. I do have cuttings rooting in water, so will have one for next Spring. It must be wonderful to look out and still see color. Thanks for sharing these with us.

Jim,
Did you dig out so many Lucifer bulbs?? Your garden is a pleasure to watch. Thank you for sharing. My mums are doing pretty good too.
Indu

Beautiful flowers.

Just beautiful Jim - thanks for posting.

Lisa

They are gorgeous photos. That Chalice bloom is amazing! The view from top is so pretty. Thanks so much!

What gorgeous fall color (and not what I was expecting!)!!

Does your dwarf crinum bloom all summer or is it a fall bloomer?

And where oh WHERE did you get all those crocosmia bulbs? You must have been growing them for years. Nice crop!

Thanks for looking at my pictures and for your comments.

Roselee- the crinum's name is 'Hannibal's Dwarf', and it is dwarf compared to other crinum's, but still no small plant.
The 'Bolivian Sunset' survived the bad winters of'09 and '10, but was very late coming. back from the roots in the summer of '11. We had 17degrees in '10.

Indu- when I dug the crocosmias, and I'm sure I didn't get them all, I got about 4 gallons of bulbs. I have saved you some in case you get a chance to
come down.

Lyn- I got my start of crocosmias with 5 bulbs purchased on EBay in the spring of '05, and have dug them three times, each time replanting 2 plantings of 20 bulbs. This year I only replanted 1 planting. I traded and gave away hundreds of bulbs each time. I wouldn't say that they are invasive, but they are 'prolific'.
The crinum started blooming in mid July and has been blooming one stalk at a time ever since. It appears to have one more stalk to go if we don't get a freeze.

Jim

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That's amazing on the crocosmia! I got a start from Carrie, so I hope they multiply as much as yours did!

Somehow I have to step up my game -most of my crinum did not repeat bloom this year. I'll blame the late freeze, but I think it's something else going on. Probably the gardener's fault :(

Are the flowers still there or did the frost get to them. Thay are very nice in the photos.

Thanks, Mara. I guess we dodged a bullet this time, and only fell to 33 degrees, so we're still going for awhile.
Jim

Oh good, another 2 weeks ! It looks like warm weather is settling in for awhile.

I spoke too soon, and optimistically. There is an arctic air outbreak for later this week worse than this last one. They have changed the severity of it overnight and lessened it from 23F to 25F in the Central Texas area. so I would say , it bears watching.

Jim,

Absolutely beautiful flowers. I get excited when I see you have posted pictures :) I love your morning glory tree. I, like Carrie, have a bush overwintering in the greenhouse. Can't wait for Spring!

Darlene