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

plantladylin wrote:
We are warming up! Yeah!! It is so nice to be able to go outside again without layers of clothes! Our high today was upper 50's ... normally we Floridians would consider that a bit cool but it sure makes me happy! We are due for two more nights in the 30's and then by the weekend it will be back to normal for this time of year, mid to upper 70's daytime and low 50's at night. I am one happy gal! It will take awhile for the landscape here in Florida to recover, but spring is hopefully just around the corner! I just placed an order for Caladium bulbs on the classified ad forum and I look forward to having them in mixed container plantings and hanging baskets.

This is what the Schefflera in the backyard looks like today ... sad looking tree! In the next few weeks those brown leaves will be mushy and droopy. My husband will have to get his chain saw out and chop the tree way back but by late summer it will be pretty again!