Carolina Gardening: Time for a rain dance?, 1 by keonikale

keonikale wrote:
Yeah all the various storm types can be confusing. Cold core, warm core, tropical, extra-tropical, blah blah blah. I hated having to study for those exams... yeck.

Deb, yeah it's just a baby though - maybe a few years old. I actually have three of them. I'd say 90% of what I grow is not hardy to this area, so I have A LOT to bring in the house in the winter. My DW will probably want to shoot me this year because we've (OK, I) have expanded my collection to include several tropical palms, ginger, and heliconias. I'm a bit crazy for the tropicals. You don't even want to know how much I spent on a 8' Christmas Palm this past weekend (should have it by this Thursday); I'm excited.

This was the Traveler's back when I first got it this February. The sun and wind have beat it up a bit now... I've sunk it in the ground in its pot outside for the summer.