Tropical Zone Gardening: The coconut wireless - chat threat 2, 0 by Braveheartsmom

Braveheartsmom wrote:
Aloha everyone,

Just trying to catch up on all the posts, my goodness you all have active lives compare to mine!

Debi, most interesting about the horse shows - what beautiful animals, I would love to see the parade...do you ride as well as organize everything? I wonder if you got your mast tree? I had never heard of a mast tree before, thanks for posting the pics Hap. What pretty, fresh looking trees they are, I haven't seen any of those here.

Jeanne, I am so glad to hear that you are enjoying having you sister close by, it sounds as if you have a good time together - just what is needed after the sadness of loosing your Mom.

Amanda, what fun you must have had on the Elk river, and I swear Abbie has a grin on her face! The river looks lovely, so calm and serene. Hope you are over the flu - what a weird time of year to be stricken, I think flu is always worse in the summer...How was that thresher shark, did it taste good? I expect it had meaty flesh like most shark - did your Dad try it?

Katie, what is GAC? I tried to follow the link but it just took me to the home page and you had to sign in...

Christi, my heart breaks for you with that awful, unrelenting heat. No end in sight as far as we hear on the weather channel. I don't usually hope for tropical storms but in this case...I understand that Texas would need something like 29 inches of rain to get back to normal. Hopefully all your large old trees have roots deep enough and will suvive.

Pu'oke, great pic of the seeds flying around! Let us know when they germinate...lots of the tropical plants here have to be sown right away in order to germinate, so when we try something new (to us) and like it, I have a pot standing at the ready to shove the seeds into.

One of the mango trees is putting out new blossom, hopefully we will get some fruit later on in the year. It hasn't been a great year for mango although we had more that enough for our needs and plenty to dehydrate to send to the kids, I think the rain came at the wrong time this year, the mango always seem to do better when we have a dry winter...everything is in suspended animation during the summer months, not that it is very hot - only in the high eighties - but the sun is burning hot, being so far south. Like Christi's garden, many of the plants leaves go very small during the summer and look as if they are struggling.

Looks as if it is going to be a pretty day here, sun is just getting up and shining on the West Maui mountains...