Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Garden # 47, 1 by joeswife

joeswife wrote:
Nice plants! Love the purple blooms on the potatoe bush... I went to visit Don ( Tropicman) last night and his yard looks like a tropical paradise.. it is always good to go visit with them, they let me have some seeds when I find some .. LOL I am afraid to take anything else home from him his things are always so nice.. my fittonia is failing... I am sending it to someone who knows how to love it.. any takers? Someone wanted the little dayflower blue jumping grass, I pulled seeds today after work.. I have been dead heading and collecting seeds already my dining room is covered in bags of seed heads .. Joe grilled a salmon with some kind of Plobano pepper he saw on TV,, he made a coconut custard pie, what a great Joe I have.. he let me play in the yard until our date tonight..Last the rain beat down my tree high four o clocks.. now I have them trimmed down.. here is the first bloom of that varigated rose of sharon, and it is called sugar tips as someone had mentioned here..I have not sunk it into the ground yet..will it winter over? I am in zone 5 or 6 I think.. we have bats at night here.. my youngest daughter adores them and loves to watch them come out.. Fearless Joe has trapped two of the mice in the flower bed.. I don't think he got the momma yet.. I hope he doesn't..I love critters..