Rastafarian"twister" Aeschynanthus.

The basket looks great. What are the pretty leaves on the right Stan?

Thanks Klahanie. That's Roldana petasites. Big yellow blooms in early summer..maybe late spring.
Leaves are soft and velvety. Its got a good tolerance to cold..I've never seen any frost burn on it.

Everything looks great! Is this a shade structure.

Its used to be a covered patio. I took the old worn fiberglass panels off. It needs some TLC..next year!

Also- I did remove the cement slab under it. Doubled my yard space of my "estate"!

It takes time and energy, right? I wish I had 2 extra gardeners. It would help out a lot.

I did that years ago. Everything with me has been..a little at a time and also the vast majority of the time i start with dinky plants. My Podocarpus tree's were one gallons,my Aloe marlothii was as small as you can find them- two crab pinchers look.
I once almost splurged for a huge boxed Aloe barbarae...instead planted a 3' tree Aloe that turned out to be the rarer A. tongensis. Plus-lol,a cutting of Aloe barbarae I stuck in ground around 2000? Is now a triple trunked plant 10'..still not near the massiveness of the boxed plant,but maybe one day it will. One day!

Yes, the smaller plants are the way to purchase when you're younger....older, big plants. lol!

There's some really nice Aloe tongaensis here in San Diego. I took pics of the ones in Balboa Park. They're large 10' or just slightly taller. I love when they bloom, which they should be blooming over the next couple of months.

Aloe barberae (wichi I still call: Aloe bainesii). lol!
There's a lot of big tree growing here. The tallest ones I've seen here are 35' tall. I think in South Africa they grow to more than 50' tall.

Ive seen the Huntingtons in person. Incredible.
I've seen the boxed plant I got my cutting from at the Oakland Zoo- I was a helper with the landscaping back then. So when a small piece broke off- he gave it to me. Its gotten (Oakland Zoos) to be an impressive plant as I saw 2 years ago.
I did see Andy,another must have been a boxed plant at the SF Zoo on a blog post. Wow,fat trunked and healthy.
I said it before- SF is colder to people then it is to plants.
No frost ever just makes for a slower then down south tropical.But grow many do.

Yes, large Aloe barberae are very impressive! I do like the tree. My neighbor has a large one their front yard. I think it was planted from a box...because it's about 8 - 10' tall (I think it was planted recently). I'll have to get a pics of it soon. The sun angle is changing. Unfortunately, I haven't taken many pics this year.

Next trip to the San Francisco Bay Area I would love to go to Strybing. I haven't been there in almost 10 years. I haven't been to the Oakland Zoo in probably almost 40 years. Yikes! That's a long time.