Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Do you like ORANGE??, 1 by AlohaHoya

AlohaHoya wrote:
I think vireyas are one of the wonderful secrets in tropical growing! We are planting a lot of them (yes yes...pictures WILL be coming) and there is a new guy at the Sunday market who sells them for almost nothing....not the most beautiful 'plants' but great vireyas that can be pruned and shaped and ... VOILA. They are easy to propagate, not deep rooted so we can grow them here in our shallow soil...not too prone to bugs like mites (eh, Kell?).

Kell...I still love my Brugs...but they were becoming so time consuming what with the fertilizing every 10 mins, and the bugs, and the pruning back and the...the...the... I haven't added to my collection in quite a while and find just time to maintain them is hard to find. If da' bugs wannem dey gettim!!! There ARE so many beautiful plants...and I'm like a kid in a candy store... have about 50 epis I need to put up in trees, hoyas that need to go out, vireyas rooting, costus and ginger to prune back... bromiliads to split up (and seeds to germinate). One brug I would dearly love to grow is a double pink....(eh, Kell???????, oh Kell?????)

Here is a vireya I got at the market..1 gal. pot, in bloom...