Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Garden #62, 1 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
candela: I hope you were able to keep your plants warm enough in this awful cold! That Queens Wreath is so pretty.

prita: I like that Blue Sage and the Purple Fire Spike is really pretty. We have a lot of the red one up this way but I've never seen the purple flowering one.

Rachel: Love the Cissus amazonica! That's a really pretty color on your Hibiscus. I have, or should say had a light apricot double blooming Hib. It was a small potted plant and got frozen in this awful winter we've been having. It wasn't a favorite though so it doesn't bother me that it didn't survive, LOL.

Dave: You can send some of that rain my way! After so many frosts and freezes everything is extremely dry and crispy. We have red flag fire warnings up around central Fla. Rain is forecast for this coming weekend so hopefully we well get a decent amount.

It was 26ºF here again last night with frost covering the ground. Hopefully the warm up is beginning as reports have us back up to the mid to upper 70's by the end of the week. I sure hope Florida is spared any more cold weather this year ... or for the next dozen years for that matter! I saw on the news it was even down to 42º in Key West night before last. It's hard for us here in the northern part of the state to deal with weather like this but folks who live that far south are not used to those kind of temp's at all. Most homes built before the 1950's here in Florida were not equipped with heat. It was all over the news for a few days that every big box store had completely sold out of space heaters, none could be found anywhere in Florida, so I hope these freezing temperatures are over with for a very long time!

This is the Hibiscus that was blooming two weeks ago and is now a goner from the freeze.