[shawnintland]

Hey Robert, thanks for the nice shots! Truly looks magical in the rainy mists. Those pink flowers are 'impatients' and they make little explode-on-touch seed pods scattering seeds away from the parent plant. The "probably imported" plant with the orange hanging flowers is a Brugmansia. The 'brugs' generally have a wonderful nocturnal scent. I think the orange flowered one is B. sanguinea, but not sure. (hint for next trip- they grow very easily and well from cuttings, and also form cylindrical seed pods with loads of seed in each one!). I think that orange one is pretty strictly a HL plant, but after years of trying I've finally gotten two to 'take' from cuttings and one from seed in my hot temperatures here at sea level.

By the way, I love theJewel orchid leaf coloration and the 'lense filter effect' picture of the tree ferns! If you ever notice spores ready to release on them (or any other tree ferns) I'd love to give them a shot! It doesn't take very much quantity to get thousands of spores!

Thanks again for posting your pictures.

Shawn