Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Another contest: Celebrate lessons learned from failure, 1 by GordonHawk

GordonHawk wrote:
Lovely photo... GGK... what a hoot to see it with the red cross unit...
Well .. without any of the fan fare here ... the closer to death unit has one I can share...
I have no cool paace for dormancy here... everything is too well heated in the winter ... and the basement has three water heaters and two furnaces going so it's way out of dormant areas.. I keep everything up and growing in the house with me..
Snowbank was doing so well for the last few years... I could never fault it in any manner... I couldn't let the fact every bug would prefer it to all of the others sit as a strike aganst it.... but here for me it did marvelously.. This was to be the third or fourth year for it .. and it was fine throughout most of the winter... but then lost it's leaves... as did a few others... perhaps my new worker who sometimes starts here with some chores helped in his watering style... as I did get plenty of BTR on my plumerias for the first time ever ..
So it got real sick... but I figured it was still alive and the sun would bring it out when it finally became spring here... well it did become spring and it didn't help it much so I started cutting back the progressive rot... and finally got it to stop and after 2 1/2 months out in the sun. on the hot roof deck... here it sits... it's underpalnting looks better than it does... I'll post a follow up picture of the leaf... named Carrie.. as I think it's carrying the plant...
Gordon.. NYC roof gardening ...... zones 4- 14