The NEW Plan

It mostly revolves around ti plants.  Today, anyway, for a limited time only (most likely, knowing me and my short commitment span), the side garden next to the house is a happy song to the beauty of ti plants.   

Excellent plant patriotism day - got some variegated rhapis palms and philodendron and possibly Chinese taro from craigslist and a brugmansia from Glenn's and a big bunch of various ti plants from the Yamashita Nursery.  Love the fire sale area at Yamashita Nursery.  Seriously.  Love. 

The address for Yamashita Nursery is: 41-551 Flamingo Street, Waimanalo, Hawaii 96795.  Their telephone number is 808-259-7059.

The address for Glenn's Flowers and Plants is: 41-513 Flamingo Street, Waimanalo, Hawaii 96795.  The telephone number there is 808-259-9625.

Neither have a web presence, but they are super easy to find, especially since Glenn's has a big sign on Kalanianaole Highway, and then Yamashita's is just down the street.   

 A new addition from Yamashita Nursery.  I think that this is Hawaiian Sunset.

Proof that patience pays: this lovely (name unknown) ti is from a cutting that Ko'olau Nursery sells as cemetery foliage - the stuff that people buy to put in vases at graveyards.  I think that these started life as 12-15 inch cuttings at a dollar a piece.  I think that I got about 15 of these.  Of course, Yamashita's sells similar cuttings already rooted in pots for 2 dollars, so . . .  But I didn't know about the wonder of Yamashita's then.  Hey, Yamashita's cut me a deal!  I'm doing some really good PR for you.   Or would be if anyone other than Lisa and Scot were reading this, and if they didn't already know about the place.

Confession

Honestly, I wrote the first blog posting a few days ago but didn't publish it until this morning.  I needed pictures ('cause who'd read it otherwise?  And I have to give something back to the one follower who is - or may be - reading this.) and the light wasn't cooperating.  In Hawai'i, imagine.

Anyway, the afternoon I wrote about commitment, I went out and dug up one of my side gardens.  Wasn't it obvious to everyone that things on the left needed to be moved to the right side?  And then after they were in the ground, wasn't it obvious to everyone that those plants should be brought forward four inches?  And then a few inches back to the left?  So obvious.

Some re-arranged greenery.


And more honesty: I ripped everything out (a gross exaggeration meaning some stuff) yesterday and moved it down to lower side garden.  Hey, I haven't uprooted disrupted improved this garden for days.  That's like generations ago in plant time.

Stuff that got to stay: red leaved heliconia, kahili ti, negril ti (I think), and other assorted ti.