Greetings from
July summer time in Florida.! Just a quick note on one of our rare plants before we talk about what's happening around the nursery.
In the last day or two, Mitch has been communicating with some online folks about cuttings for the
Wittia amazonica being available to ship..Mitch is busy taking pics and will be determining cost for cutting plus shipping and will let everyone know by early next week. We will be communicating with everyone that has already emailed us, and if you are interested too, please send us an email at marketannie@aol.com to get your request in - Please note, at this time, we can only ship within the U.S. (no Canada/Europe/Asia - thanks for your interest on this rare amazing specimen!
Our current
Plant Availability list is at the end of this blog entry, check it out !
Now, here's what's happening around the nursery....
Walking around today, it is just ablazed with so many different types of blooms. The rainy weather and all our sunshine are just making everything spout beautiful and tall.
The large soft leaf
Tibouchina heteromalla is just starting to bloom and this older specimen (about 7 feet tall) is just gorgeous to look at.
This drooping pale yellow
Hibiscus Tree is another one of our favorites. This is perfect grown as a Tree since the height allows you to better see the blooms that hang down just like bells.
The
Duranta (Sapphire Showers) are one of those plants that just loves sunshine, and rain, and humidity doesn't bother them a bit ! You can grow as busy or tree like and it's a butterfly magnet.
Speaking of butterflies, we have a lot of great butterfly friendly plants, from host plants to nectar plants. Butterfly gardening is fun and it's a great way to help out Mother Nature in your garden !
This double Red
Hibiscus tree above, is one of our favorites because she
is a prolific bloomer and her striking deep red color is great contrast
against all the green of the garden !
Rain or Shine, we plan to be at Saturday Morning Summer Market this weekend, and you can always visit us during the week too to tour our garden and check out some beautiful plants !
Yes, we still have Butterfly Wing (aka Christia obcordata) in stock ! We are growing ours in full sun (western exposure) and they are doing great, they love the heat and humidity this time of year. If you want it for shade/partial sun, porches etc, it will do just fine too, its adaptability is one of our favorite things about it.
Saturday Morning SUMMER Market
(www.saturdaymorningmarket.com)
Williams Park, downtown St. Pete, at 1st Avenue north and 3rd street
Market hours 9am - 1pm
Every Saturday through end of August
Armstrong Nursery is located at the Northeast corner of the Park.
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Name |
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Size |
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Notes |
Price $ |
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| Aloe arborescens |
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3 gallon |
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Uncommon - super medicinal property, better than Aloe vera - Avail mid
July |
20 |
| Anthurium |
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4 inch pot |
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Dwarf variety from Holland - prolific large red blooms - great
house/porch plant |
8 |
| Arboricola |
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3 gallon |
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Arboricola variegated - nice, multi stemmed - great landscape plant |
15 |
| Beauty Berry |
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3 gallon |
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Callicarpa americana - Loaded with blooms and berries - hardy native |
15 |
| Bird of Paradise |
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3 gallon |
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Strelitzia nicolae - "white" Bird - White/purple flowers -
multi stemmed - due July |
25 |
| Bird of Paradise |
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3 gallon |
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Strelitzia reginae - "orange" Bird - White/purple flowers -
multi stemmed - due July |
20 |
| Brunfelsia |
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1 gallon |
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Brunfelsia americana "Lady of the Night" - rare ! - white,
aromatic flowering now |
12 |
| Butterfly Wing |
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8 inch pot |
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Christia obcordata - rare ! Foilage looks like zebra longwing butterfly |
12 |
| Cactus |
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4 inch pot |
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Color Top Cactus - deep purple color - large specimen heads |
8 |
| Calathea |
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4 inch pot |
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"Fusion White" - lovely
green/white varigation with purple undersides - New ! |
8 |
| Coral Plant |
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1 gallon |
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Jatropha mulitifida |
7 |
| Coral Plant |
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3 gallon |
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Jatropha mulitifida |
15 |
| Elephant Ear |
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1 gallon |
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Colocasia "Mojito" - deep white/green/black varigation |
12 |
| Epiphyllum |
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Hanging Bskt |
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Guatemalense montros - rare, curly leaves |
25 |
| False Agave |
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3 gallon |
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Furcraea foetida - really nice, multi-pups - soft leaf - due July 1st |
30 |
| Floss Silk Tree |
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3 gallon |
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Ceila speciosa (aka chrorisa speciosa) - young, 7ft tall - nice ! |
25 |
| Gout Plant |
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1 gallon |
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Jatropha podagrica - nice! Flowering - Very cool bulbous base |
15 |
| Hibiscus |
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3 gallon |
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Double White bloom - rare !
Flowering now |
12 |
| Hibiscus ferox |
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3 gallon |
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Wercklea ferox - Rare - only 10 avail Aug 1 |
35 |
| Ixora |
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3 gallon |
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Ixora "Thai Snow" - new hybrid - varigated leaves - white
flowering - meant for shade |
15 |
| Jatropha |
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3 gallon |
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Jatrpha pandurata (aka integerrima) - Butterfly magnet - multi stemmed -
plant out 4 ft |
15 |
| Lemon Grass |
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3 gallon |
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Cymbopogan - giant variety - edible - aromatic |
15 |
| Madagascar Palm |
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4 inch pot |
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Pachypodium
lamerei - gorgeous "baby" specimens - 8 inch tall - summer
special |
8 |
| Madagascar Palm |
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7 gallon |
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Pachypodium
lamerei - gorgeous, tall plants - summer special |
99 |
| Mexican Sunflower |
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4 inch pot |
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Tithonia - large, orange blooms - grows to 6 ft - budding and flowering
now |
10 |
| Milkweed-White |
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3 gallon |
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Asclepias physocarpa "hairy balls" - Blooming, 6ft tall - due
July 1 |
25 |
| Moringa Tree |
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3 gallon |
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Moringa oleifera - great medicinal/healthy edible - Avail Mid July |
20 |
| Pagoda Flower |
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8 inch pot |
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Clerodendrum paniculum - nice ! -in full bloom - Butterfly and
hummingbird magnet |
15 |
| Papyrus |
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3 gallon |
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Cyperus papyrus - noninvasive clumper- 6ft tall - nice ! |
20 |
| Papyrus |
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3 gallon |
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Dwarf variety, grows to 4 ft. |
12 |
| Passion vine |
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3 gallon |
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Passiflora "Lady Margaret" - flowering now |
20 |
| Passion vine |
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3 gallon |
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Passiflora alata x caerulea - white/pink/purple flower - due July 15 |
20 |
| Passion vine |
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3 gallon |
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Passiflora edulis "Purple Possem" - due July 5 |
20 |
| Passion vine |
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3 gallon |
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Passiflora vitafolia (red) - due July 15 |
20 |
| Passion vine |
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3 gallon |
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Passiflora quadrangularis - Due Aug |
20 |
| Passion vine |
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3 gallon |
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Passiflora edulis "yellow fruiting" - avail Aug 1 |
20 |
| Pentas |
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6 inch pot |
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Pentas landceolata - Red flowering - Blooming now - butterfly magnet |
5 |
| Porter Weed |
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3 gallon |
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Red blooming - butterfly magnet ! |
12 |
| Rhipsalis |
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Hanging Bskt |
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New, flat leaf species |
25 |
| Rope Hoya |
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4 inch pot |
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Hoya carnosa "Hindu Rope Hoya"- rare, varigated type -nice ! |
8 |
| Rosemary |
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1 gallon |
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Rosmarinus "Tuscan blue" Edible -sun loving - landscape heat
& cold hardy |
7 |
| Succulent Bowl |
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14" deco bowl |
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Mixture of 4-5
succulents in lovely deco planter |
15 |
| Tapioca |
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3 gallon |
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Beautiful bush, deeply varigated leaves |
15 |
| Tibouchina |
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3 gallon |
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Heteramolla big soft leaf - gorgeous blue/purple flower |
20 |
| Tractor Seat |
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3 gallon |
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Farfugum japonicum - green and yellow spotted varieties 1 & 3 gallons |
8 to 25 |
| Vanilla orchid |
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Hanging Bskt |
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Orchidareae vanilla planifolia - green
leaf + varigated leaf varieties |
10 |
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Mitch Armstrong Nursery is a licensed Tropical Plant Nursery with the state of Florida. We do not have a retail location, our "store" is the Sat. Morning Market!
www.heyplantman.blogspot.com
contact us at: marketannie@aol.com
727-742-9265
heyplantman1@juno.com
727-542-9951
(note: Can't make market ? Feel free to call or email us to make an appointment in St. Pete )
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