Starting Canna & Ginger Roots ||Hardy Orange Tree Transplant & Garden Work || Weekly Vlog
Channel: Tropical Plant Party
Date: 2020-05-09

This week in the garden was a bit of mess. With an unpredictable weather forecast, I was limited with what could get done outside. ... and I messed up by accidentally filming half of the vlog in slow motion. oops! However I start things off productively. I went over how to plant cannas and how to plant curcuma roots / ginger roots. The way I do it is just to get them started a little faster before permanent planting in the garden. After potting up the gingers and canna lilies, I started digging up my hardy orange tree, the japanese bitter orange. This one is the Poncirus trifoliata 'Flying Dragon,' and it is a beautiful rare plant, but also very dangerous having curved thorns up to 6 inches long. I transplanted this tree into a nursery pot, just temporarily. I went over how to transplant shrubs and trees, mostly the after care of re-establishing dug up trees and shrubs. If done at the right time of year with the proper care, how to move shrubs and trees isn't so hard. After transplanting the tree I talked about cleaning my pool and some other things, but those video clips are useless because I filmed them in slow motion. I recapped what was missed and moved on to working on to getting my fountains, lights and pool filters up and running. Once that was done I cleaned out my pool pond, cut back my aquatic planters and finished that set up. I later discovered that the lotus plant which I thought was dead had sprung to life, so i moved my hardy water lily out of the lotus bowl and into the pool pond. Lastly I talked about what was happening here with the weather and handling cold snaps in the garden. I also talked about bagged plants like my new variegated elephant ears. I have a bunch of elephant ear bulbs ready to get planted and I'm hopeful that they are actually the Hilo Beauty elephant ears. Video on how to grow Hilo Beauty elephant ear coming soon! Oh! ... I also went over natural ways of killing weeds, or natural weed killer. 

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