Finca Tangara Vivero open for business

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To the Boquete Community:

    Sally and I have returned to Palmira. The vivero has quite a variety of  trees, shrubs, and flowers. Partial list below. Especially we have some nice, transplantable rainbow eucalyptus, dwarf poinsettia in bloom, Lonchocarpus -- a tree with gorgeous purple blooms -- and much more. Still time to plant before the dry season sets in. As in the past, I can make home visits to give landscaping/pruning advice. All sales go to the Library endowment fund.

 

PLANT LIST     FINCA TANGARA    2017

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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