Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Hoya Displays, 0 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
My husband and I moved to Daytona Beach when he got out of the military in 1973 and I've never even been to DIS, as I'm not a big race fan. My husband has been once or twice but prefers to be lounging in his recliner watching the race on t.v. Our mall is right across the street from the speedway and back in the late 70's we made the mistake of going to the mall at the same time of the Daytona 500 race ... BIG mistake! We are only about 2 miles south of the speedway in the S. Daytona area and when we left the mall the race was letting out and traffic was a nightmare. We had to go north for ten miles to pick up the interstate to head back south and traffic was so bad that it took us 2 1/2 hours to get home (normally a ten minute trip.) We've learned not to go anywhere in that area during races. I used to work up near the speedway and there's a big qualifying race every year on the Thursday before the 500 is run Sunday. I always hated that day because we got out of work at 5 O'clock but couldn't even get out of our parking lot until @ 8:00 p.m. because of the one way traffic.

I don't have any new blooms to show but I repotted Iris Marie and imperialis today. The imperialis pot had been knocked over and the plastic pot was actually split on the side. The pots I moved up to are large but the roots fill them. I accidentally broke off two pieces of imperialis while trying to unwind it from the trellis so I potted them up to see if they will take root.