Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical garden #125, 0 by ardesia

ardesia wrote:
Paula, I hope you covered that clean soil with plenty of hay or something to keep any more weed seeds from germinating. Every time I yank a weed it exposes more weed seeds and they take off if I am not careful - which I rarely am. :-(

Rita, you continue to amaze me with all your collections and you look so pretty and happy, that must be your place in "p".

Elaine, from what the book says the red cloak will pretty much bloom anywhere but not as heavily in the shadier locations. Since Selby has theirs in shade and you live in the same neighborhood, I would follow what they do - like you did. :-) The author of the book,Nellie Neal is the regional editor for the coastal and tropical south for the National Gardening association. I subscribe to their newsletters.
http://www.garden.org/regional/report/author/11

Also, I think all begonias like to dry out between waterings. Mine did much better when we were experiencing a drought earlier this summer and I was controling the amount of water they got. My pretty stained glass from you looks so pretty in the smallish pot I have it in, but I realize I am committing plant abuse so I'll pot it up before I got out of town mid week.

The pond - we can no longer see any fish.
Bougy arborea sent up one 7' blooming stem, the rest of the plant is blah.
The snowy egrets and wood storks have taken up residence in a nearby tree. They will kill it with their poop. By nightfall there will be over a hundred in that tree.
The cotton boll is opening......