Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Overwintering a few different tropicals, 0 by keonikale

keonikale wrote:
The palms are Christmas Palms aka Manila Palms (Veitchia merrillii, previously called Adonidia). They are great palms, but can be sensitive to the cold. I've heard they won't tolerate below 50F for too long. Mine were both nursery raised in Florida. I have several smaller trees as well. Main issue is spider mites... so be prepared.

Monsteras are probably my favorite plant of them all. I have been obsessed with them ever since I saw them in Hawaii several years ago (which is where I discovered my love of tropicals). I have over a dozen of them now, including a few that came from HI cuttings. It's hard to kill the thing, and when they have enough light and water, man do they get big. Most of my large ones (overall size) I keep outside. But a few I just have to have inside, including the one that has the largest leaves at the moment. Check these guys out (I really want a variegated one, but I can't afford them, LOL).

This message was edited Nov 21, 2007 12:51 AM