NEW TROPICAL FRUIT TREES & PLANT INVENTORY

I recently bought a Surinam Cherry tree and 2 Strawberry Guava trees at the LA Arboretum fern & tropical plant sale. Like the rest of my fruit trees, these are very small starter plants so it will take a few years before they bear fruit. Hopefully we'll move to a house with a proper yard by then!!

The banana and alocasia plants are getting bigger.



I've finally finished buying plants this season (I think!).
Here is an inventory of the plants I've got now. The number
in brackets is the quantity that I have.

PALMS
Bamboo Palm - Chamaedorea Microspadix
Fishtail Palm – Caryota Mitis
Bella Palm (3)
Lady (Rhapis) Palm
Areca Palm (2)
Pigmy Date Palm
Sago Palm
California Fan Palm Trees (This grew wild in the garden)

BANANA

Dwarf Cavendish

Williams Hybrid

Red Abyssinian – Ensete Maurelii (2)

Mini Dwarf Cavendish (3)

ALOCASIA

Tigrina Superba

Sarian (2)

Borneo Giant

Portora

Portei (3)

Boa

Black Stem (3)

Gigantea

Gagaena California

COLOCASIA

Green Ruffles

Black Magic (2)

Esculenta (Edible Taro)

FERNS

Fern Tree - Cyathea Cooperi

Fern Tree - Dicksonia Antarctica

Kimberly Queen Fern

FRUIT TREES

Naval Orange

Meyer Lemon

Avocado (2)

Tropical Guava - Psidium Guajava

Strawberry Guava – Cattley (2)

Surinam Cherry

MISC TROPICAL PLANTS

Aloe Vera (2 varieties)

Coffee Arabica

Dieffenbachia (3)

Dracaena - Janet Craig (3)

Dracaena – Lemon Lime

Dracaena - Tricolor (2)

Gardenia

Mandevilla

Monstera Deliciosa

Passionfruit

Philodendron – Split Leaf (3)

Plumerai (5)

Pothos

Schefflera – Dwarf (2)

Snake Plant

Spider Plant (4)

Stargazers

Ti Plants – Cordyline (11)

VEGETABLES / FRUIT / HERBS

Tomato – Grape (8)

Swiss Chard (3)

Raspberry (2)

Blackberry – Thornless (2)

Basil

Oregano

Rosemary

TROPICAL PLANTS, TREES AND TINY BEASTS

I recently bought these baby tropicals: Alocasias, Colocasias,
a guava tree in the front row, far left and in the back row,
far left is a Monstera Deliciosa, this blog's namesake
(see it in the photo next to me at the top of the blog)

I also recently bought this black bamboo on eBay but it arrived
a bit dry and despite giving it lots of water, is not looking
too good. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. The two trees
are fishtail palm and bamboo palm which I bought at
the Huntington Library Spring plant sale.

I grew these avocado trees from pits. It took a surprisingly
long time for them to sprout. (3 months +). I have several
more pits in water which are starting to sprout. Never mind
that I don't have room for trees in my small yard but I'll
worry about that when they start getting big.

I got some mantis egg cases at the Natural History Museum
annual Bug Fair. They are supposed to hatch when the
temperature is cooler, like in the '50s, but the adorable
baby beasts started creeping out during a warm late
afternoon recently. The war on pests has begun!