These can grow and be absolutly wonderfull with purple flowers almost all year long... the flowers them selfs are Kinda stripped .. the leaves are green yellow and white Its a nice plant to have i have 4 or 5 i started from seed 1 is 5 ft tall the other 4 are 4 foot tall .. I got seeds from her in december after the flowers Died back I also have some of the starts from seeds i missed ..i was trying to add stuff and got booted ....

the leaves are very soft these plants have very small flowers are are hard to find ill take pics tomarrow ..also i have other rare plants and tropicals from Africa .. let me know tammy

Ok here are the 2 plants i have seedlings and seeds from

the Hollyhock i have both the African queen i am going to do some trimming and and get some of those rooted .. will trade for other tropicals.

the color here shows Blue when to the naked eye the flower is actually purple violet blue.. this flower changes in the light really cool .. OK how to add a photo and what size is allowed ? LOL

so if any one would like to see a picture please email or Pm me i just took them today unfortunatly the hollyhock tree isnt in bloom she has been threw heck and wind lately ..[/img]

the holly hock




the african plant

Hello,

That blue flower is absolutely beautiful. I would love some of the seeds or plants. What would you like in trade?

let me know.
Jean
recipesaver2

I should warn you there ever flowering and very rare for the usa ..
Mine came from Africa a friend of the family is in the american embassy there sent me it as a gift... along with a few other plants im waiting on for y birthday ..
the flower is a purple to blue clor depending on the sun weird huh ...

what ya got ? im into all sorts of plants ...Tammy

I have lots of brown turkey fig bushes if you still have any left.
I have some Meiwa kumquat plants and calamondin orange seedlings.
Have lots of different Jasmines also. What are you interested in?

Jean

Recipesaver I have 1 small group of seeds left from that african Queen ..

I have to warn you though its not an easy plant to grow.. im sharing seeds with Stan Mcenzie ,Joe real,and Tomm so far on those ...

Id love to send you some but ill have to give you the do's and Donts ..
1 they dont like alot of water if you put them in a damp paper towl thats half dry thats perfect for starting the seeds But they do Not like alot of water Thats the main DONT....

some do's
Full sun ,no wind , and maybe if you have a green house you will be ok .. ill send you 10 seeds if you still want it ...but so far my friend sent me his mom and his daughter all 1 plant and 50 seeds i have 3 plants and thats 2 out of the 50 seeds ....his Mom and Daughter s plants and seeds didnt make it .. i was flagging and watered the plants like 3 months after i got it watered the first time... I was like omg... it will be dead but when i went to look it was thriving.. DO NOT spoil this plant... i use Guppy water as water and fertilizer ..I could also if you want... send you some of the Varigated plant (japaneese holly hock) Tammy

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Now one of the flowers this tree is only 6 mos old and they bloom all yr here in oregon ..

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What i was told was a Dragon fruit not sure now
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My g house the small one
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Big one isnt finished just yet cant wait making benches and hot tub skirt all out of Mahogany

the suposed dragon fruit sure looks a lot different than mine, but there are sooo many varitieties, I'm sure there'll be variations. the dragon fruit is a crazy fast grower! (9 inches in 1 week, just on one of the branches) They need to be 10lbs before they'll be at the fruiting stage.

Tammy, that is a dragon fruit. I have a red & yellow. Almost looks like blossoms starting on yours, but I posted a site here few months ago that said they don't start fruiting till they weigh 9-10 lbs, but that was for a red.
Hey, post more pics of it in a little while--- I'm curious how those new growths come out! Definately a dragon fruit.

wow thats really exciting ..
My friend Gave me that start last yr she was just about 10 inches tall thats a bad pic of her i got one branch that dropped so i planted it in same pot its also Sprouting roots .... I got a new camera a fujifilm s5200 absolutly awesome camera ill use it when it comes back from portland to get better shots ..the new flowers are about 3 inches long now the mother plant is about 5 ft tall in her huge pot and they offered me more cuttings started .. might get 2 more ..

are there other colors ? cool i know white flowers where what i had read they had so i wasnt sure .. Thanks patty ill go look for your link Tammy

Betty, can you post a pic of your dragon fruit? You say yours is way diff from Tammy's.
I will post a cool link to Dragon Fruits in 'fruits & other tropicals' forum.

I'll have to take a new pic, its grown like mad since the one pic I DO have and its not a great pic. All I know is the damn thing is going to take my house over by the end of summer with the way it grows! averaging 3/4" - 1 1/4 inch per day. the growth alternates on the different arms of the plant with a new arm/branch started every other day or so. 2 branches when it started... no clue what I'm at now, prolly 10. I'm sure it'll grow more as its really starting to take off more than ever now. I dont know what variety it is or anything... sure am hoping to get fruit from it next year though but would be even better THIS year... just not sure when they flower, fruit.


I do know they can fruit, flower when immature... if under stress and think its dying, but the quality isn't good... so I do want to be sure its healthy first... which it must be to growhe way it does

I posted a link to good Dragon Fruit site in Fruits & Tropicals.
Tammy, after looking at pics again, it looks like those might be blossoms on yours ????!!!!

Yupp Patty those are right now there huge ILL take new pics tomarrow of it hopefully open and closed 1 bloom is almost 4 inches and all them are on new stalks now .. i just love this plant and all i did was barrowed 3 bucks from roomate to go get a cactus cause it was a lady who wouldnt take a check or credit card and the people we met in the Dmv said stop here after your done i have something for you so we did and been friends since we trade plants back and forth .. they gave me some coral carob seeds recently that are now very nice seedlings cant wait ..want one ?

I know i give alot away but its so much fun id like to go back to trading i just traded alot of my jewlery i make for a used hot tub plus 50 bucks for them in the trade its a 7 man needs a skirt so thats where my mahogany comes in Tammy

PS Disney i havent forgotten you its been in the 100"s here and Im scared to ship and pick will do it tomarrow supposed to be a little cooler even with rain its smoggy ..