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Tropical Fern & Exotic Plant Society Website: http://www.tfeps.org/ Annual Fall Auction Monday evening, October 28th, 2013 Corbin Building, Fairchild TB Garden, Miami - Florida - 7:00PM - Eye candy was on display for the plant hungry during the giant annual Fall auction of the...

- "If your into tropical plants long enough, meeting Marie Nock is eventual." I was not the only one to have their first Ree Gardens experience on this day. Local veteran landscaper and grower Stan Wood of Everglades Botanical was here to also peruse and explore the nursery. After many years of...

An air layer is essentially a large rooted cutting that has roots before it is cut off. It can probably be done that way, but you still got a plant that is going to have issues with the soil here. It could be grown in a pot after its been an air layer, but it would probably not like to be...

- In the collection, there were sometimes multiple specimens of the same plant scattered or grouped together. This was just for show purposes or for reasons of propagation, as some species may be dioecious, or have separate male and female plants. Across the path from the plant above was another...

- I had to take a closer view of the peculiar stem that was covered in leaf scars and aerial roots. - By this point I was lost. I just kept going and exploring. I chose a heading towards muffled voices in the distance to try and catch up and see how the sale was going. I exited a...

- A closer view of the inflorescence, showing the perfect 1 inch (2.5cm) wide flowers. They are constantly being produced by the inflorescence in a random pattern. Every bright red emerging bud you see will be an open flower in a short period of time. I had to hand-hold this shot at a weird...

- I could spend an entire day in each shadehouse or an hour upon a section of benches and still not cover everything. You have to look under every leaf, go from pot to pot, trace out limbs, stems and branches just to not miss anything. Felt like I was eight years old again. One of the...

- A minute or two later, we re-entered the interior of the garden and I dove headfirst into the shadehouses. Along the way I photographed this Mojito, Colocasia esculenta cv. 'Mojito', that was on the edge of the walkway. Named after the popular Cuban cocktail, this cultivar is not the rarest of...