Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Vireya fan, 1 by celt33040

celt33040 wrote:
Hello

My name is Neil ,

living in Key West Zone 11b and I am pretty new to tropical gardening . Although I moved to the Keys 10 years ago from Ireland I have had my own garden to play with only in the last few years. At first we had someone do the design for us but as it grew ( boy did it grow) I strarted to get interested in the garden myself and have had my share of successes and failures.


I have many of the usual suspects in my tropical garden but have fallen for Vireyas (aka Tropical rhododendrons) Amazing plants, needs lots of TLC kind of like bonsaii for the garden. I was wondering if anybody else in the group had any.

Im far from experimenting with any hydrids or seeds, but I did just manage to get my first plants to grow from cuttings on my persian shield.


This was my first home grown bloom on a vireya Orange Flambe

Im learning lots just going through the posts.

Thanks
Neil