Tour Marie Nock's BACKYARD JUNGLE — Ep. 310

I think would be good in Landscapes I brought it back from Hawaii it might be available here but I hadn't seen it before but it's a it's a wonderful little plant you know especially when it gets the right light I just don't have much sun here at all not anymore you might have started with some sun oh yes now you have proper canopy here and we started with the riding lawnmower too oh my goodness [Music] foreign foreign [Music] foreign my name is Marie knock I was given my first bromeliad when I was four years old four that's pretty young and then I was dating Steve together at that time there used to be trash piles that were allowed in Miami and we would go through the trash piles and find orchids and wonderful things and then he got into oh that's native that's like dumpster diving for plants and it used to be allowed and they people would throw away amazing things then we got into native orchids and traveled the state got the keys all the way up to Mid Florida and Found Records and then we started trading those with people who grew other plants and it grew and grew and so it's always been a hobby um for our 10th wedding anniversary Steve gave me a corporation re-gardens he was a business major and there are some tax advantages to having a business and um so now we've been in business 47 years wow I mean and it's also very grown in here and you could see that you've had plants for quite some time here Steve had a contemporary design store and he sold that in the early 90s and semi-retired but he did the garden full time and that's when he started hybridizing John Banta was a good Mentor and John used to talk to Steve about macrolobium Anthony and macrolobium but I've never been put out a radiatum and so Steve started making macrolobiums and one of the outcomes of that was the plant that we named Delta Force it was a unique clone some people call it a unicorn but the propagations of this are not from seed you can see some seeds are developing oh yeah and I had the first few seeds just a few years ago and I donated one to the air ride Society for the auction unfortunately it sold for thousands of dollars and I found out later that the seeds are not true to the parent plant uh-oh they make interesting plants but it's a clearone pedata radiatum so all of the true Delta Force have been vegetative propagations from the original plant how many propagations do you think you've made of the Delta Force well I've made some Enid was early to get one and then Chandra in Indonesia got one from us and I think Enid sold one to somebody in Southeast Asia I don't know if it was Thailand so they've been around for a while people propagating them I sold my first one in in 2021 I had always traded them I'd use them as currency for plants that weren't available you know because sometimes there are things you can't buy but people want to increase their collections too so I would trade them and uh it's you know some people think that any Clara nerve and put out a radiatum hybrid is a Delta Force it's not and I'll show you some different variations of it they're all interesting but they're not Delta Force well I would love to see I mean I feel like that's not unusual like if you slightly different you know well I wonder who got that seat and what it grew into yeah I wasn't at the auction Alex would know probably but I felt so bad afterwards because you know I didn't know because as seedlings they all look alike and then as they grow up then you see um macrolobium as a result of that same cross interesting so different yeah and that's what Steve was aiming for yeah and he used to label them some have five points some have seven points some have nine points and some have 11 points when in the leaves [Applause] same cross Clara nerve and put out a radiatum there's one of the plants I traded at Delta forest for is this um variegated gloriosum wow that is a beautiful variegation and it had started to lose the variegation and so I cut back in the rhizome and all the different new growths now are variegated again so and I've heard that they do that they go you know we'll have a few green leaves and then then go back to uh variegated and there's like yellows and creams and slate pinks yeah last year during the cold season I didn't have it in and I had a half moon so this is the result of last year's life this year when we had our cold sap I protected this one yeah and that is that is to be said here that Florida recently did have a a pretty bad cold snap in these three days of of down in the low 40s yeah which you know these tropical plants usually can't handle so there will be some Leaf Drop but we'll we'll highlight some of the ones that had pushed through this is another Clara never put out a radio item that's not a very good Leaf it's uh damaged but they're all different and and the ones that I think are more interesting and I label with clone numbers I haven't named any of them okay oh there are more Delta Force oh here we go right up here so you should really be skeptical of somebody selling a Delta Force is what you're saying I see them online all the time and um you know sometimes what one person who I know you know I I emailed her she's in Texas because she had posted that she got a Delta for us and it wasn't a Delta for us at all and I explained to her if it has the lobes it's not Delta Force but you know whether they choose to listen you don't know you can't protest yeah too much in the sound the in the aisle over there are my variegated bloody Ace and last year in the cold snap they blasted their their heads and a lot of them went green and then this cold snap now I'm sure is going to devastate them again I still see some variegation I mean it is an older Leaf but I do still see some variegation on there now it's like it's relatively untouched there are some oh and this is an interesting plant down here too this is one from Haiti clubija domingensis are you familiar with that no I'm not it's a small tree it throws sprays of flowers that look like orange cymbidiums hmm it's um but obviously not an orchid no no I have another variety I like big leaves and so when I was able to get another clovidia that was the first one I got it has baby flowers you know that I hardly were saying but this one has flowers that are about two two inches across and you say it's a tree is it like an understory or does it get really big no it's an understory um if your child has them planted under an oak right across from the conservatory got it and then I can show you my that's surprising and that is uh Hail Mary there huh yeah this is actually our third one all the lessons here come hard and uh if you bend a root the root dies is that so so you have to weave The Roots into the pot very carefully as they're growing okay Bruce Greer who's the president of the board of Fairchild I had a big one but he went to move up into a bigger pot didn't know that and the roots in his huge plant died oh no is that the one that he got at auction probably I think they got it at the end I think he yeah he paid for it at auction at the eroid show yeah yeah oh no that's a circus peanuts in the uh in the background this one over here this one right here yes that's one of my seed parents I have seedlings coming of circus peanuts I love the name does it smell like circus peanut to me I don't notice a smell at all okay I think I might have seen a circus peanuts at um yeah Bill a bill yeah yeah he has it okay and you know it was rumored for years that they would not set seed they do because years ago I had uh set seed and I had one plant grow and it looked exactly like circus peanuts okay well it looks like it has a little flower coming up on there in the back yeah well they're they're good parents yeah this is a native to Jamaica the this row over here I have some prettier ones that are in more light um and gunians and just as an aside my spiritual Santi I got from try sugunaga in Hilo and when I was there last year he gave me some seedlings he's the third person in the United States is that seed on on spiritual center oh my goodness he was he was pleased but you know was wondering why he was third and not the first and over here is an interesting philodendron when landi some people have not seen it oh that's a big extended lobe I'm going up the oh my goodness is this another Sten alone right here the same plant and then it broke apart probably in one of the storms I see so it's gone on and on and on his fantastic Gardens was a nursery in in this area of gee back in the 60s and 70s we used to go every weekend and try to talk them out of one plant that wasn't for sale and then when they realized their property was too valuable for a nursery they they decided to close out and so they had an auction and my husband and Bruce Greer were bidding against this bidding bidding you know how auctions go and finally Steve said to Bruce if you'll give me that little piece on the side I'll stop bidding so we found a piece that was small over our gate but it's grown you know we've been here so many years yeah they uh but it's not the narrow form the the narrow form is the more desirable thank you oh can you uh feature this I I love this plant oh let's go to one that's in bloom sure let's do that see the flower because it's as Maxwell and lineari variation miagos but to see the bloom really makes it really spectacular philodendron with landi I uh Sushi That's the basis of many of the rosette philodendrons you don't see them around that much anymore I'm sometimes I know Troy from novelty greens puts them on eBay but to me it's a desirable plant because of its history why do you think they're not uh they're not on very much any longer people want the climbing ones or what do you think I don't know availability is probably one thing yeah and they do make up a lot of space yeah I guess like even anthurium like bird nest anthuriums you could find on the market though like why not a philodendron yeah yeah it has a very interesting inflorescence I don't know if that Sun is going to no it looks excellent look at that it looks like cloves down here you know what I mean like some kind of spice and then the flowers of a kind of like see how they're pollinated these are seeds coming on this one oh yeah but they're much faster to grow from cuttings than from seed and I've heard that uh pigeons call Nathan I don't know maybe they're attracted to the the black fals seeds perhaps yeah and then the variation miyagos is variegated so in the summertime when the Sun is hot this is is more green and chartreuse but in the shade uh it'll be plain green and they they adapt to both conditions they just don't like extreme cold yeah it seems like the new growth is like really that chartreuse color and in the in the summer then it would all be variegated yeah this is Zambia antillerum with a magnificent webbing I keep saving those webs when they fall off the tree I don't know what to do with them but to me nature is just so beautiful and they're native to Haiti and the needles on these are used to poke the voodoo dolls so that's the original way but I don't think there are many left in Haiti from what I've heard just to point out this flower again here it's more in the shade but oh there's a little cooler gardenia cooking it's uh there's I love plants that are fragrant during the day this really would like to be in full sun and it was the yellow one right here yes that's the one that when it comes out the first day it's white the second day is yellow and the third day is golden oh it's almost like the brunsfeldia style colors yeah except yellow this is a mirta balance this is a male it has leaves like a ficus pseudopalma um to me it's a it's a beautiful tree to set see the you know both male and female it's uh stylacious yeah this is a big angiopra sandgastifolia looks like you have it propped up a bit a little bit yeah yeah it was supposed to go to the Botanical Garden in Pittsburgh and then the Horticultural has moved and the new horticulturalists didn't need it so oh boy yeah but it's it's our biggest one a few different uh angieopterists and avecta I bring back every year from Hawaii looks quite happy here yeah it is they they say not to put them in the ground and even people that put them in the ground there it looks like they're in the ground bury a pot and then put the pot inside the pot and why why can't you put it in the ground does it just spread too much or I don't know if there are nematodes I don't know if it's the alkaline soil that gets to the roots I'm not sure okay because it's in a peat-based medium and so it doesn't mind being a little pot bound then doesn't seem to yeah they really like water all the roots yeah gotta watch where you walk you do this is another clone oh wow so this one yeah is like a little bit wider it doesn't have as pronounced of a drip tip It's seems to be a slightly different color there's another clown uh-huh a little bit longer interesting this is philodendron tenure oh and here's another necrolobium again the same thing across as the uh without a radiatum the benches all used to look like this in the first year of the pandemic I cleaned them up and one bench was all orange marmalade this this is the Jose Bono and when I tried to contain the orange marmalade they didn't like it at all so I just let the Jose Bono say like it is because I get plenty of tip cuttings off this it just doesn't look very nice some would disagree some would love all the all that tangle of green Marie medinellas I didn't show you the the big ones this is miniata this is the red one a red pendant flower and I propagate them under Mist oh you can see a bed coming on this one um they uh they propagate with many odds it propagates quite well then there are other ones that when I try to propagate I'll get three out of ten I don't know why some are fussier than others what was it about metanillas because it's something that you really enjoy well I just I love the flowers to me they're so beautiful they um and then they've been making corn Bach in the Netherlands has been making wonderful hybrids with Madden Allison so Peter comes over every year for tpie and the world Vermilion conference so I get to see him and he always brings new things and he brings species as well so we trade back and forth because if ever I find a new Mandela I propagate one for him yeah they look like hanging grapes to me like hanging floral grapes yeah what's it form seeds too yeah anthrie and Papillon I do keep propagating them and I have a lot of seedlings coming of this here's another Clara nerve and pedata radiatum hybrid and these just don't have names no no the better ones I I put clone numbers here's one that looks just about like a Delta Force but isn't and so what would be different about this one that just doesn't make it quite a Delta Force for example it has the lobes on the top of the leaves is pretty much triangular okay but other than that you know the patterning is the same and it has a long drip tip yeah this is an interesting philodendron um this is philodendron aplanatum and it has a very flat petiole mm-hmm these you don't see around that much oh and one that I brought back from it's around but I just had never seen such a big one Everything grows well in Hawaii the this is the crucifolium oh that's interesting and that I would say is a really mature Leaf yes I have friends that well sell me Plants off their trees so and then this is Alter Nance very often when you see alternates you see it in a pot but it's really a climber so it does a lot better if it's if it's put on a totem and this is the Elegance I was never able to grow Elegance until this piece that came back last year is it because it was slightly mature or like I think being mature helped it because I was always starting with bare root plants that had been imported and and this was a you know as soon as I got it back here I potted it what a specimen here huh yes I don't even put that in the frame I'm trying to think of the name colonicum colonicum anthriam colonicum [Music] here's a a purple cochleostemma um the green ones got zapped by the cold this one got zapped a little bit but you can still see the the good color on it yeah well sometimes when it has cold damage it turns a little red but this one is just naturally this one is naturally red and the red ones are never as hearty as the the green ones well that's interesting that the green ones got zapped but you probably have so many different micro climates here and you have plants on top of plants so and and going but you can see these aren't as badly damaged as the one that was up in the front right the plants I always protect are the there's only one that looks good in here the pentagonia when landii oh yeah when it gets below 55 degrees the leaves get damaged in these so so they go in under protection many times during the year this is a mystery that's all overgrown not a good time of year to propagate yeah but I let the philodendron varicosam go in here because they love to have that moisture and they also just love to scramble everywhere they do and so come spring then I'll be able to cut them up and propagate nice oh and these um I like half Mani eyes so do I impossible to grow indoors but I like that they could grow as bedding plants everywhere here in Florida this is Rosalie eye this is really like a ground cover and uh this Rosie I have had for years and it propagates well and then I got this one from Chad and it's also called Rosalie eye so who knows what the true Rosalie eye is yeah because it's a new one and these look these look good too that you protected yeah yeah but not all of them they yeah whoa look at it it grows from cuttings wow and it grows so well and I see it sometimes on online for sale yeah verify because can you eat that are in 10uing here's a variegated uh coffee this is is ready a very Gada I used to have one of those indoors could not keep it indoors it's too hard well they're not that easy this one isn't that easy to keep Outdoors either well this is a big metanoa here right yes that's another miniature okay the miniatas um aren't around and and so they sell well for me because I'm I guess one of the few people that propagates oh this is interesting this is a heliconia Sabrina not not a cafe Sabrina but heliconio Sabrina oh you could have fooled me and this is a cultivar damanii it has the uh the red back because the typical heliconia Sabrina has a green back wow this looks just like considered this is philodendron martianum one of the cold hardiest of all the philodendrons that's interesting to know I see a cultivar called fat boy on the market that would be the same yeah yeah it is it's been called Gordo Fatboy and years ago it was called an error cannifolium but it is martiano and some of my customers in Central Florida wanted to landscape with philodendron so they did 45 of these you know because they would take the winters up there it's good to know that these are slightly cold hardy seem to be fine in your 45 degree temperature for three days these are seedlings of anon's moxilon tree that like the Osmos lineari you showed um instead of a black and white flower this has an orange and black flower but the trees can get up to 20 25 feet tall that's amazing because they look like those little like anthurium polysticum leaves your radiatums or something like that or they think I'm growing pot yeah that's yeah how's that look I've seen these are sanchezias right they're sanchezies yes yeah I mean I've seen those more on the market like in the past but I don't really see them now very much but this one in the summer it's brilliant yellow and it's not an aggressive grower I mean it grows well but uh it's it's one that I think would be good in Landscapes I brought it back from Hawaii it might be available here but I hadn't seen it before but it's a it's a wonderful little plant you know especially when it gets the right light I just don't have much sun here at all not anymore you might have started with some sun oh yes now you have proper canopy here and we started with the riding lawnmower too oh my goodness no more lawn here this is Medina see baldiana it's also called Tasmania uh it's one of the more difficult ones to propagate but it has a beautiful Bloom and I plant is large enough that it blooms throughout the year I mean it looks like one of the like the texture of occlusia flower like it's that porcelain flower and it has these like pink eyelashes or like pink cat claws and look at how glassy that is and they close that waxy they close and then open in the morning oh it's a shame this doesn't have a good flower this is anthurium chabori chabori means tie-dye in Japanese so it's the one that's uh kind of cream color with with pink and hot pink blotches on it this kidia platypilla looks oh yeah I used to have the Hoya that was the shingler too but I lost that I can imagine if you have too many Hoyas here they'd be tangling up on everything you wouldn't be able to get anything out they do this is philodendron pulcrum from Brazil hmm anthurium loosens ethereum shodiana a little Zapped but not not too terribly and those are some of the ngoctors ofecta that I brought back from Hawaii last year okay I've won the little corner of sun where I have a few crotons I don't know if you want to see sure because that's what you uh you said you had mentioned at one point that you really started with it well you like when crotons were hot I got into them after looking past them for most of my life and I had quite a few but now I don't have the the light to grow them well so you don't think they're still popular in the landscape oh they are but not like they were I mean they were Croton societies we would have meetings two or three times a year where people would drive in from all over the state it was really fun wow you know there was a crote and website or crote and Wiki um people were making new hybrids it was it was a wonderful time you know how that like Airways are now yeah except it was mostly people from Florida and then people from Thailand or Asia people who could grow them in a landscape except there was one fella from Russia who grew under lights and he had an incredible collection he would go to Thailand every year and uh go figure see you know if you have the will then there's a way Wonder Boy oh here's that sanchezia from Brazil I was telling you about what it didn't get zapped it's uh then she's here munita the one with the red flowers right there right it's a great landscape plant and I've tried to introduce it uh to well I gave some to Fairchild I know that Chad is propagating some but it will grow and Bloom in sun or shade and it's uh it's not around but then from the 44 degree weather we found out it's not very cold hardy either right I like the stems they're like these kind of segmented swollen almost zigzaggy stems and the bloom is wonderful it goes on it'll get more colorful and then have flowers that come out of the bracks this is another osmox salon maybe when you've done Fairchild you film this it's in the conservatory it's uh we didn't really highlight this one no it's uh novogonensis it has a very interesting configuration oh yeah look at that [Music] when your Ficus uh right here it's looking pretty good was this a triangularis or yeah I have a huge tree not not variegated but a triangularis tree in the front and this is my little patch of sun that gives the Croton some color [Music] this is Exotica one of my favorite crotons now are they all of the species yeah and they're not true seed you can sell the plant and you won't get the same configuration so I have named five crotons you only name the ones that are worth keeping but some of them are wonderful this I don't know if you've ever heard of the Fantasy Fest celebration in Key West this is the George Thomas hybrid named Fantasy Fest and it if it had more sun it would be even more colorful but it's quite a nice one and then the kind of bland crotons that we passed over there that didn't have good light grow into this this is Sybil Griffin one of my favorites wow but you know it light makes all the difference when it when it comes to crotons this is um John Burnett or stained glass John Burnett is the grandfather of a good friend of mine who's now 85 so imagine how many years ago this was made but uh crazy and when I went over to Fort Myers to get this one identified they gave me I asked about John Burnett and they gave me a piece of this one too these are the man cunancies that have the better light you saw those this is the Jamaican native [Applause] this is a regalia radelias are gingers they're not very well known this one is from Papua New Guinea it's never bloomed for me I don't know what the bloom would be like I had coralina before which was the terminal Bloomer and I could even set sea to hunt and grow it from seed is this the same one this one has like a red petiole this one's more like an it's the same this is just younger okay a younger growth but they're pretty because of the variegation yeah [Applause] yeah so they never flowered for you no and I've had them for years probably 20 years yeah [Music] I would imagine though Marie that something could potentially flower in here and unbeknownst to you and you just wouldn't know possible but I'm out here a lot okay okay this is a friend calls paper plate Aurelia it that's huge leaves we got this from Leila and Miano I'm not sure where where it came from originally but uh you know there's the dinner plate Aurelia it has leaves about eight inches across this gets really big this one looks a bit more like puckered too I don't know if that like a rippled I don't know if that's just the growth form or cupped I guess and then this is this osmox Salon got zapped this is the other one with the orange and black flower but it has really interesting leaves when they're not Brown [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] yeah let's do it [Music] maze over here I would totally get lost I mean I could see that how many acres is this it's just one it's just crazy how many how convoluted and well and he's like this was all when we bought the place the mango and avocado trees were here but grass and a riding lawnmower came with it unbelievable yeah we paced out a tennis court thank goodness we didn't put one in yeah I think that was um tennis court would have eventually become like your seeding Greenhouse or something yeah 52 years ago wow that one is sub incisum that was called an era wilsonia [Music] this is the Gregory hambali hybrid which is uh sprucii or Goldie eye with the neurosemlobum it's a very attractive Leaf yeah it's uh and then this is Guatemalans and three in one in the lens interior plants they take space but they're they're good inside I don't know if you can get that I can yeah that's a big um Tweety Adam hybrid and then this is the hybrid that Leila Miano brought back from Burley Marx's place it's nolanoni with panatopitum it has the pinatophytum marks on the petiole the purple but it makes a beautiful specimen and withstood the cold so that was good yeah here's Panetta fin right here you can see the marks and then this is one that um Betsy first and collected in Ecuador it's never been described because she didn't have the GPS coordinates I don't think GPS were even around at that time so it's called sometimes bitsy Adam sometimes first eating atom but it makes a wonderful specimen it looks something like maximum but it's a climber and it's it's not the uh you know there is a maximum climber that they're they are different yeah very and very beefy and it has a new Leaf coming right up out of there and it looks like it is undeterred by the cold just different birds in the center and my husband's first well-known cross was Andrea Marie I don't know if you've known about that it was the first purple uh sensorium other than you know superbum was little but it was a big one like this and it was put in tissue culture and then sold around the world and when our customers from Thailand came they came one year in in January and they bought all the small plants we had and then they came back in September for the air ride show and got probably 15 plants that were this size and Steve was ready to chop off the leaves and the roof and no no no they wanted what it were someone in Thailand had won the lotto with a purple bird's nest anthurium in their garden and so that was a lucky plant and you know how lucky plants are in Thailand so yeah so they paid more and faith and they paid for the plants wow a monstera that's unknown to me we probably got it from Leland but uh yeah I don't know what it is this is the metaphylum poluticola you know they identify the metaphylums from the um intravaginal squamules that are on the trunk and politicola is smooth Bill rhodolante's hybrids yes okay Bill folius Rex yeah it looks like it could have lived with the Dinosaurs it has a good sense of humor this is the mattify LA mundii it's my understanding that this is used a lot in California and landscape and and not in Florida I don't know why huh it's a beautiful plant here we use the bipin out of item well I don't see this one do you see this one on the market very much no not here not in Florida [Music] nor the Tweety Adam these I Grew From seed Michael Ferraro went to Brazil to Harry lorenzi's place and was able to bring some seed back and um they grew readily I mean I didn't know what I was doing this was like how many years ago 20 25 years ago and they did well this is and three and Foster morindi trying to get a leaf for you that doesn't have our water stains on it the calcium carbonate but the leaves actually can be twice that size and this is one that can be put in the ground in Florida crazy I must must stand back to feeling whole plant when When We Were Young we used to go to people's Gardens and they would have these wonderful air rides growing up in the trees and we always wanted that and uh and now we have it yes you do and now you can't grow crotons because watch your step The Roots here are terrible this is the big ficus triangularis tree wow that's a ficus triangularis yeah no way be nice that we're variegated this is anthurium hooker eye a lot of people think that a lot of people call any business anthurium hooker eye but this is the true one and the seeds are white um however it's been I grew this from seed that I brought back from Hawaii but it's been very difficult for me to grow seeds from this I get Maybe hundreds of seeds every year but three plants a year from those seeds so it just doesn't have a good uh propagation rate right yeah and this to me is the most elegant where he's going to stand here and this is davini and those blades can get up to 12 feet long and the one that looks like a shuffler in the middle is clavidram that's probably one of the bigger Club clavidium leaves that I've seen this is another the madophylum this is uh mellow barossianum and it has touched the squamils they'll scratch you oh yeah because they have like little daggers in this Garden just uh close up on that highly serrated Leaf right over here and then you have your little metallicum right here and this dracena has an interesting history it's dracina umbriculifra and for years it was said to be extinct only in botanical gardens or in private collections and then with the DNA work they've been doing on plants in 2018 mobot found that it was more closely related to the dracenas in Madagascar and not to the ones in Mauritius so they sent A Team there and they found two colonies of it so now it's no longer extinct it's critically endangered but it makes it beautiful tree gosh it almost looks like an overgrown Yucca this is a pile of leaves from the coca-lobo pubesens in a rainy year the leaves can be about two feet wide and it's hard to rake them you have to pick them up but the um the cold zaped this so it's dropping leaves these sizable specimen up there though and more sub inside them in the trees up here we have a Jose Bono in the tree and so it helps people realize that yes there's supposed to be the place not Jose Bono we met him in Puerto Rico oh 50 some odd years ago and so we've created plants ever since then um but he says Jose Bono is not his plan he didn't do that so it was just somehow I got named after him which is fine well that happens I I feel like a lot you know some other person will name it after somebody who they admire or who they knew or who they got it from who they got it from we put Leila Miano on some anthuriums that we got that didn't have names and now they're called I see online there's the um there it is and let me show you my seedlings that's what's been keeping me busy these days that sounds great I need to point out the syngonium Chia pens let's try to get it without the light flare up here there it is biggest one that I've seen to date and the the philodendron on the right up the mango tree is when I I used to I worked for the Miami-Dade College and when I be up in Orlando for meetings I'd always go to McCauley's bamboo nurseries and get the philodendrons that he was using for breeding stock not not that he named or not that he put in tissue culture but there were always some interesting ones and that's where I got my first medinel and magnifica just wanted you to see the the size of the leaves that are falling this used to be called the lowland ficusameropsis and Chad Husby gave me the new name for it at Brucie eye or something like that I'm not quite sure but it's aren't aren't the leaves amazing so cool I mean that's a size that's bigger than your torso ah and this melanoni I didn't get zapped which is amazing because they are very very cold tender but I guess it was um close enough to the house that got a little bit of warmth Maybe well you didn't have Sun for three days either did you no yeah this is supposedly a variegated melanoni but Ron week says it's got to be a hybrid because of the the leaf shape I see but it's still nice and it also seemed pretty Hardy yeah another melanoni ice after worrying about [Music] him percya Nobles Patrice are you familiar with anniversity that's supposed to be the most beautiful flower in the world no it looks like an upside down pink flamingo and in Hawaii they they're all over the place they grow in bloom um where are they originally from though Sri Lanka okay yeah but I bring them back each year and what's the genus amherstia and her amherstia like Amherst like in Massachusetts right right myconia calvesons which you have to be careful of right because well not informed not in Florida but in Hawaii in Hawaii yeah yeah but when we take them to the Department of AG they say where did you get these you know because they're invasive over there with their volcanic soil but here they're rare plants there's even one in the conservatory at Fairchild yeah this is a dracina that chip Jones brought back from Cambodia it might be cambodians still a young plant all right and these are my seedlings two years ago big antherium species were were hot last year and 3M seedlings were hot so um mostly I've been selfing because so many people are making hybrids and you don't know what the hybrids are going to look like but I do have twos of you know if I have a particularly good one I'll set seed on that but again I had one that was um or if you in them papillominium and the seedlings came out so differently you know some were some were broad like the paps some were narrow like they were okay items so I think this is one of the uh I know this is important life oh this is one of the ones that's narrow so I'm I'm hoping for something interesting with that yeah but it's interesting when people come to select seedlings they're they're looking for the the differences some of the delta forces that will not be true they look promising at this stage but no interesting interesting so they all kind of like have that triangular shape and then as they mature then they disappoint yeah yeah some of the um baby spiritus aunties ah and and what are what kind of medium do you primarily grow in for your we mix our own we use a third peat moss a third perlite and a third soil conditioner it's a lot simpler than what a lot of people use but it serves us well great and yeah I mean it looks like you have a nice success right here dressleri papaminum I put papilloman and pollen on the dresser eye because I didn't have any dress Rye pollen one time and then I put dresser I pollen Ever After but I think they're all the Hybrids I think it must have been just so Barrel yeah it looks like it you need a bigger bench oh I do I do that I've been doing a lot of papillominum seedlings I had a good take on two plants and a few I planted the variegated ones because a lot of the seedlings come up variegated the ones that are pure white don't make it the ones that have a little bit of green I planted in with another plant in case they don't make it but some of them May um and then the f2s on the Clara nerve and potato radiatum and you know they're all different some some you see have the the long tail some are fat and squat uh these these sell pretty well because I sell mostly to people who resell my plants I don't ship I I do this because it's fun and shipping to me would not be fun so and then I have babies coming my little circus peanuts oh yeah I have Berryessa blunts there some of the the ones we got from Leland that I call Leland Miano and people have put that I just put it as a holder but it's developed that name so even despite all the humidity in Florida you still keep a little plastic bag over them for when they're germinating and I keep them in the wintertime on a heating pad it makes it 15 degrees above the ambient temperature and they're handy here to the water so I can I can sprinkle a few times a day this is one that came out variegated you know some sometimes it's not a great variegation but it's variegated yeah another I think this is a portaloy yeah he sold well but I kept two this is the true Messier they're difficult to find and you know there's there's one clone that doesn't Clump up this this is the Clone that that clumps up so I don't know if you can see in there I'll divide it in the spring it's not the right time to do that hold on a second let me see you look at that yeah how would you divide it you just make an incision right in the middle like down the center basically well I try to separate each each growing hand yeah okay and then whenever I make a cut on an aeroid um I make a paste out of diethane M45 and water and I paint the cuts not everybody does that but I just think that it prevents problems later on so like any type of fungal or bacterial rot or anything like that okay this is a dracontium oh yum amazonica and in the sun this will get red with the silver and they can be quite large I mean we've had some with the the diameter about four inches but it grows like an amorphous it'll go dormant and then come back up and what what's this one here uh that's a beca that's been separated oh that's the separated version okay I'm trying to set seed on it they're hard and then my my latest thing is planting seeds of the zamia pseudo parasitica so a cycan yes it's the only um epiphytics icad and I just put the seeds down less than a week ago and they're already starting to uh to throw Roots up I mean to me it's just amazing because I don't know what I'm doing I have a couple people that coach me on this so you basically found out that you had a male and female yes you they're dilacious so you need to have a male and female and you need to well I don't know if you need to hand pollinate but we did hand pollinate it and then it took about a year for the the seed pod to get right what a what a weight and then they're in a gelatinous substance of the coating and they have to be planted immediately you can't wait so you clear the like pectinus gelatin off of it right you wash it off and then but some of these were these were put down two days ago these were put down yesterday they're already kind of emerging it's amazing cool and that's all all in perlite no um chip Jones told me potting soil with about half inch of perlite on top ah fascinating okay he said it keeps down bacteria got it yeah I have good coaches you need them for the diversity of plants that you have here in Marie like you know it's it's hard to be an expert on all of it all at once you know um but man you have done an excellent job and you know to see what a jungle could look like in almost almost 50 years right you need to come back though in the spring and summer and not after a cold snap right oh amazing thank you so much for the tour I really appreciate it my pleasure foreign [Music] 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Channel: Summer Rayne Oakes

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Keywords: Summer Rayne Oakes, Homestead Brooklyn, Plant One On Me, plants, houseplants, indoor plants, garden, gardening, house plants, houseplant care, Marie Nock, Ree Gardens, Steve Nock, Aroids, Aroid tour, Philodendrons, Anthurium tour, houseplant home tour, tropical garden tour, Florida garden tour, Florida gardens, tropical houseplant home tour, tropical plants, large houseplants, Anthurium propagation, Philodendron propagation, Ficus propagation, Anthurium hybridizing

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Length: 56min 52sec (3412 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 09 2023

Reddit Comments

[u/bend1889]

I watched this the other day and spent the whole time in awe! Her collection is amazing. I’d heard it was impressive but damn! I wanna be Marie Nock when I grow up lol!

[u/plan_tastic]

This episode made me so happy 😊

[u/Plantiacaholic]

And she is still at it, outside every day getting her hands in the soil! I would love to walk through her garden ♥️♥️