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Plants in Botanical Gardens - Suva

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Plants in Botanical Gardens - Suva



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Wow! You've packed in a lot in this photo.

9 May, 2009

 

Yes I tried to capture most of the plants in this one Theoldgunner!

11 May, 2009

 

Panther:

Very beautiful tropical garden photo. I absolutely love the Pink Mussaenda!

I'm going to try Mussaenda again, they are so, so beautiful
!...they just hate our hard water though...maybe I'll water it with distilled water. lol

14 May, 2009

 

Delonix, thanks. Yes the Pink Mussaenda plant is beautiful I prefer the red and white ones maybe because the pink is more a common sight to see here.

LOL...to distilled water, but maybe that would do the trick!

16 May, 2009

 

Panther:

I am going to buying a water filter for my outdoors hoses. It should make a huge differenece with the brown-tipping on my sensitive plant from our hard water.

A Palm Society member east from where I live has a huge tropical palm garden...he has installed a reverse-osmosis water system (which is very expensive). His plants look like they're growing in the rain forest...and absolutely no brown-tipping.

16 May, 2009

 

Panther:

I forgot to comment on the Mussaenda. We have some nurseries that sell many varieties of Mussaenda, such as: yellow, red, dark pink, dark red and even the variegated colored ones. They are expensive an expensive plant to purchse here though.

16 May, 2009

 

Wow ..really they come in all of those colours?? Absolutely amazing, here I've only seen them in red, white and the common pink.
The yellow and the variegated colored ones I'd love to see as we don't have them, or I wonder is it just that I haven't come across any.
A water filter sounds a good idea in buying for your outdoors hoses and plants especially, Delonix. Good luck!

17 May, 2009

 

Panther:

Yes, they come in a lot of colors...when you get a chance check the different varieties out on the internet. There are some amazing-colored hybrids!

The one big specialty nursery in San Diego County that sold all the varieties of Mussaenda doesn't carry them anymore. Even Aloha Tropicals also in Northern San Diego County doesn't cary them anymore...can you believe that? : > (

My friend who owns the big specialty nursery in San Diego County says the water usually kills them off in a couple of years...that's what happened to mine...this is even more of incentive to purchase a water filter.

17 May, 2009




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