Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Garden #67, 1 by 3jsmom31

3jsmom31 wrote:
I have a lot of miscanthus and some get to 3 meters with the bloom. I love them except in the spring when it's time to cut them back. My son was holding a brown, raspy cane yesterday saying we should cut this now before it gets too warm. I'm thinking maybe he is right :). I have no idea if rubrum would set seed in better conditions, but they don't here, just make the pretty flower and no seeds. I've had small pennisetums outside that self sow, so I know what you mean. That brom is really pretty. What a bright color bract? under the flowers.

Your Typhonodorum lindleyanum flower is very regal looking :). I guess I am weird, I even think the petioles are pretty, lol.

These are the little elephant ears I showed a while back. I love the pattern on the petioles of stingray and lauterbachiana :).