Plants and MORE Plants

These are the new plants for the birthday girl who is now officially a 65-year-old with a Hawaii driver's license and a Medicare card.

Some of you plant people may want to know what they all are...and some of them we do know.   The orange in the back left is a parrot heliconia, the pink one we don't know, but the purple to it's right is a Persian Shield (no, I not going to type out the latin, sorry.)  On the far right is a Fire Copper Leaf tree.

Back to the left is a Gold Finger Schefflera, which like other plants here grow HUGE.  We've seem them as tall as a two story house, and the blooms look like exploding red firecrackers.  To the right are two variegated plants called Caricature Plants -- one is chocolate and pink, the other is green and pink, and they grow big too.  The yellow wrinkled leaves belong to the Witch Doctor coleus.   In the front we have asparagus and squash.

This was the first week in many that Lunel got to spend many pleasant hours in the garden again since the ohana works is nearing an end.  However, none of the new ones will go in right away as they need to acclimate a little to our elevation and weather patterns.  One of the interesting things about the big island is that you can drive 5 miles in any direction and have different weather, so we allow the plants time to adjust before putting them in the ground.  This is especially true for the asparagus.  The second photo below shows all plants that are now acclimated and waiting for their perfect spot.

TEASER:  We have begun work on the greenhouse and are drawing up plans for a gazebo too.