At least the crape myrtle enjoy the heat - as long as they have enough water. 

This is the first fertile Aglaonema Treubii hybrid that I have ever found. You have to be an Aglaonema breeder to appreciate this. Note the light green cigar like flowers. 

May have shown this one before but it is still worth a second look. Adenium X 'Calypso'. 

HOT, HOt, Hot, hot.........

Too hot to work, too hot to play. Now I know what prison must be like. At least it is just not in Florida at the moment. Looks like a good week to catch up on office work. Can't do photos since the camera lens keeps fogging over. Have been in a fog myself the last 3 days. It sure would be nice to see some nice November fog.

Diploid (left) and polyploid (right) form of the same Dieffenbachia variety. 

Plantdaddy, Paul and Claude in research greenhouse.  

Too lazy to write so here is another photo from the greenhouse. 

Stumbled across this interesting plant in my greenhouse today.  

Germination of the 548 Pothos seed has begun.. 

The 548 live plus other stuff.

The recently planted 548 pothos seed are germinating and looking good. The offspring appear to be of three types: green, variegated or albino.

The impressive Dieffenbachia mutant "StarBright M-1" yielded 5 apparent polyploids during propagation. They should flower this winter.

Our sterile crape myrtle are flowering and 3 or 5 of the selections appear to have good enough ornamental potential to be considered for further testing. We are now collecting data regarding secondary flowering of the trusses.

A really cute gynura mutant has yielded more cuttings and soon we can do a production test.

Several of our new mutant pothos have been increased for testing and more mutant-inducing treatments.

Aglaonema hybrid selected for further testing. 

A showy variety of Pothos. 

Recent Aglaonema hybrid being increased. 

Summer Fishing Dreams.

Surf fishing in the Atlantic Ocean requires a lot of preparation especially since it is a 150 mile round trip each time I go. To ensure the best chance of catching something I daily check out my three regular surf fishing boards to catch up on equipment and fishing reports. There are also 4 surf cams to check the local water quality and wave action. This is supplemented by computer generated tidal charts, moon phase calendars, wind forcasts and solunar tables.

Each fishing trip is documented in a dairy (years 3 now) that discusses weather conditions, tides, water temperture and clarity, bait and what was caught. What have I concluded so far? I do not know - too much data to analyze and I am so confused that my poles rarely get used.

For example, during 2003 I went surf fishing 21 times while during 2004 I went 15 times. So far in 2005 I have made it 5 times. Looks like too much data and not enough fishing to me. This has got to change --------- once it cools off.

Memories of the good times and cooler days. 

A new Chlorophytum at Gaylord Palms. 

Gaylord Palms - more color and texture used well. 

More of the Gaylord Palms atrium. Nice use of foliar color and texture.