Greenhouse: Can we tour your greenhouse?, 0 by fredrump

fredrump wrote:
Holly, we live in a sub-tropical climate but try to make it pure tropical with our fancy and fussy plants from regions of Central America and elsewhere where no freeze has ever been seen. The plants react with horror at any length of such torture. I lost half of my croton collection last winter and I loved the various colors so much. Turns out that certain varieties are much fussier then others but how is one to know.

On our recent trip to Costa Rica, a native habitat of so much tropical flora, we saw fields of crotons just growing in the wild.