Plants, Shrubs, and Trees for the Holidays!

[NewsLady]

Finca Tangara Nursery is well stocked for the holiday -- lots of plants blooming now. Full list below. I have a powerpoint of many plants on the list and can email it upon request. Less than 20MB. Also, will send directions upon request.         We also have special BLUE GINGER plants from Bonnie Williams.

Peter Sterling
 

PLANT LIST     FINCA TANGARA    2017

psterlin@gmail.com

I make home calls to offer consults on pruning, planting , fertilizing, and so on. Visit is $25; all plants below are $4.  All sales are contributed to the Biblioteca de Boquete to build the endowment fund – so that eventually interest on the endowment will pay the Library’s annual costs in perpetuity.

Trees Laureacea family (avocado):   Aguacatillo – tiny avocado-like fruit; tanagers, etc love it.   Sigua (white and red) -- also small avocado-like fruit for birds; March-April   Bambito – larger avocado-like fruit; food of the quetzal; highlands   Croton niveus (colpachi) – fast growth; good windbreak; fruit beloved by parrots Cypress (cipré) – evergreen, dense foliage; prune-able as hedge or shrub; good windbreak. fast growth Eucalyptus deglupta (rainbow eucalyptus) – world’s fastest growing; pretty bark   Bignonacea family: Tabebuia rosea (roble) candelabra-like arbor; white/rose trumpet blooms in March Tecoma stans (yellow trumpet blooms); small tree/shrub; grows fast and flowers often)   Spathodea campanulata  (African tulip; llama de bosque, flame of the forest) – fast growing; scarlet flowers Nance amarillo – plum like yellow fruit; tall tree; Inga (guabo; several species) mimosa like flowers; hummers, tanagers, orioles; fast growing Erythrina poeppigana (poró) – beautiful orange flowers, tall, fast-growing; highlands; birds Erythrina lanceolata (palo santo) fence-post tree; red machete flowers; pretty seeds Diphysa Americana (macano) bright yellow pea-like flowers; pea-like foliage fence post Enterolobium cyclocarpus (corotú, Guanacaste) – grows huge; spreading canopy; beautiful foliage; lowland Quercus (oak; several species: mamecillo, black oak)  important forest trees Lonchocarpus minimiflorus – lovely purple flowers in Feb/March Mimosa – pretty flowers for hummers Trema micrantha  -- Jamaican nettle; fast growth; seeds for grosbeaks and other birds. Cecropia obtusifolia (guarumo) -- fast growing; fantastic for birds Bahuinia variegata  (orchid tree) – white orchid-like flowers Anacardium exelsum – espavé; tall tree related to mango and cashew.  good forest tree Hymenaea courbaril  (algarrobo) -- tall; best at lower altitudes   good  forest tree Spondias purpurea  (red mombin; jobo) -- red, sweetish, cherry-sized fruit; live fence-post Caesalpinina pulcherrima (dwarf poinsianna; pride of Barbados)-- beautiful blooms; does well in Boquete.   Flowers and Vines Asclepias curassavica  (a milkweed); butterflies, including monarch Lantana camera – orange, white, pink   butterflies Stachytarpheta franztii (porter weed, verbena)--  clustered purple flowers; hummers and butterflies Allamanda – yellow trumpet blooms; sturdy vine; wind tolerant (cover a fence) Penta – red and white; hummers Snakey succulent with red blossoms Reed orchids Flowering lily   Shrubs Tres amores – blue,white, and purple flowers Brugmansia --  trumpet flowers with perfume in early evening Calliandra haematocephala (powderpuff) -- red blooms; hummers                         Streptosolen jamesonii  -- marmalade bush, chinese hat (hummers and butterflies) Yellow daisy (as shrub or vine ) Hamelia patens (zorillo real, fire bush) -- tubular red flowers for hummers; berries for tanagers Jatropha multiday (coral bush) -- scarlet flowers shaped like coral

Duranta erecta  (golden dew drop) -- green or variegated; small blue flowers for hummers; yellow berries Melastomata shrub with purple spikey blossoms)

 

Grasses Vetiver  -- deep roots for holding soil on hillsides Lemon grass  -- cultivar from the Nasó tribe on the upper Rio Teribe

    Agave (2 kinds)

    Maguey

    organ pipe “cactus” for tall fence, windbreak, etc