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Photo of my containers in October .. NYC  in the fall..
GordonHawk wrote:
OH thanks...
Sequee...I don't have any chineese lanterns... I asssume you mean plants... which photo were you looking at and thought you saw thoes..
Trunnels.. yes it is grass,, I started it maybe 8 years ago.. i t does ok.. but like it all you have to cut it and it probually needs it again.. must have a better picture of that.. I've been having grass about for years.. I used to have a patch inside around the bed.. but that was the 60's.. I'd written some on rooftop landscapeing back then..and I was useing it her to give a garden feel to it..and decrease the heat.. I've since been able to use the extream roof heat to blast the tropicals.. like one day it was 80* F out.. and the black rubber membrane of the roof surface clocked in at 145*F.. so wind off that onto the plants was intence... it's like that every day up there.. it was 64*F the other day.. the roof was 94*F.. it's like a container with no sides on the roof surface
the roof is the top of the 4th floor.. so I guess it's 5 floors up.. I can take alot of them inside.. and I'll have a light this winter for them that I keep alive.. alot of the tropicals I keep alive all winter .. and sometimes blooming.. I might let them go dormant ..but I like the effect of them growing over sitting bare in pots in my living space.. I don't have storage so it mostly lives with me during the winter .. but the weeks of blooming plumerias and an occasional bloom from an angels trumper is a real help in the grey of winter..
AM I BOREING YET... go to the vidio tape ..well a few stills .. first is a closer shot of the back 1/2.. blooming today