Tropicals & Tender Perennials: As the sun comes over the mountain...., 0 by Happenstance

Happenstance wrote:
Thank you all for your nice comments. :-)

This is my little corner of paradise and you really need to remember that this is "little." It is a typical California suburban lot......small. I lust after some of the gardens I see here on DG.....large sweeping gardens on a good sized piece of land.

We actually looked at 5 acres of land a few miles from here before we came to the conclusion that putting in roads, power lines, septic, and all the other things needed to make a piece of country property work just wasn't something we were up to. Plus the fire danger that is also a part of life in California.

Since this is the Brug Forum, I thought it might be nice to highlight the star of the first image in this thread. Here is Charles Grimaldi, one of two I bought at a local home store last May when they were about 20" tall. The leaves at the front of the plant are not chlorotic, they are sunburned from one of our March heat waves.