Tropicals & Tender Perennials: TROPICAL PLANTS AND GARDENS #131, 4 by dyzzypyxxy

dyzzypyxxy wrote:
Shame about your lotus, Alice. I can't imagine why they would do that. Did you taste one of your ginger flowers?

I have some unwelcome visitors that have come back on my Begonia odorata alba. Spiralling white fly. They rub off easily, and are treated with soapy water quite successfully. The plant doesn't seem to be set back hardly at all, and this is the second go round for this pest.

Heliconias are happier now that we got some rain.

'Easy Does It' roses are blooming up a storm, too. I fertilized everything at the end of May, then we got 4in of rain, plants all took off!

Shooting Star hydrangea still looks good, but the powdery mildew will start soon.