Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Garden # 80, 0 by mjsponies

mjsponies wrote:
Happy - Even tho we have a lot of Oaks...NONE are up near the house.....So I'm severely lacking for shade near the house. I used to have alot of the vines running up the walls of the house, but I didn't put any up this spring as we are planning on painting the outside of the house. I've got a pretty tall Crepe Myrtle that shades one corner of our front porch, which before we put the sun blocking screen on it was too hot to sit on in the afternoon/evening as it faces southwest. My ex and I went round and round about putting in some trees close to the house, now he's been gone for awhile and I'm working on getting something ( short of those tree's with the great big leaves everyone hates cause they blow all over the place)...Got one oak going in the back, but it's still small.
here's my "fertilizer spreader" planter. I've got a red passion flower, some eggplant and lion's tail seedlings in desperate need of planting ! How's that for diversity ! LOL...