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Please find a PDF format of a PowerPoint presentation on the Trees and Plants of Boquete. Watch for announcements on News Boquete.

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Trees and Plants of Boquete - Feb. 2017 - optimized.pdf

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PLANT LIST     FINCA TANGARA    2017

psterlin@gmail.com

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 variegate  (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

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

Penta – red and white; hummers

Snakey succulent with red blossoms

 

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) -- greem 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

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The Biblioteca de Boquete will be hosting a plant sale on Saturday morning April 15. Various plants and flowers will be contributed -- for example, Bonnie Williams' famous blue ginger. And more from the Jaramillo Gardeners.
     I will bring in some bagged compost and plants. However, I urge people to visit our farm soon to see what we have and order because I cannot move the whole nursery in for the day.
  Also we have lots of plants blooming here that will not look so great in bags at the Library.Visit us to see the menu and then order for delivery on April 15.

Peter Sterling

Finca Tangara

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thank you for your efforts

1 hour ago, Peter Sterling said:

The Biblioteca de Boquete will be hosting a plant sale on Saturday morning April 15. Various plants and flowers will be contributed -- for example, Bonnie Williams' famous blue ginger. And more from the Jaramillo Gardeners.
     I will bring in some bagged compost and plants. However, I urge people to visit our farm soon to see what we have and order because I cannot move the whole nursery in for the day.
  Also we have lots of plants blooming here that will not look so great in bags at the Library.Visit us to see the menu and then order for delivery on April 15.

Peter Sterling

Finca Tangara

 

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To the community of gardeners and friends of the Boquete Library:
      We write from Finca Tangara to thank you all for your patronage this year. Two plant sales at the Library, many visits to our farm for plants and compost, and invitations to consult at your gardens earned a grand total of $3401 for the Library's Endowment Fund. We, along with the Library Board, thank you for your patronage.
All best wishes,

Peter Sterling and Sally Zigmond

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