Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical garden #121, 0 by dyzzypyxxy

dyzzypyxxy wrote:
Beautiful flowers and plants, Rita, and KayJones! You both have such wonderful collections.

Drew, on the brown leaves thing, I know the breeders work to achieve that color, just like they go for variegation, or red leaves etc.

It's my mind set, I guess. Brown leaves = dead plant to me. As a lovely - obviously healthy - specimen like yours, indoors as a feature, or in a collection just for curiosity they are wonderful. In my landscape it would hit me - clang! - in the eye every time I saw it. Partly my point of view, as well. I don't have indoor plants and everything has to integrate into the landscape here. Even my orchids are gradually being assimilated. (Resistance is futile.)

P. Gloriosums are both doing equally well. I'm going to dispense with the pot and let them ramble through the jungle now.

Alice's Begonia Odorata Alba is the success story of my garden this year, I think. Try as I might I can't get a good picture of it, but it is at least 3ft. tall and wide.