Tropicals & Tender Perennials: It's been HOT, 1 by GordonHawk

GordonHawk wrote:
Yes Kenboy.. it's hot... is that boat docks you build... all construction is hot work.. I worked outside all day today.. just puttering... and I've worked construction for years outside in the south.. and gulf islands .. so I have a diffrent take on it than most do.. it's just hot.. but it part of a cycle.. you start the day and it's cool at 6-7 am.. then it heats up.. and then cools down with the evening.. it's like cooking a frog.. you throw him into hot water and he'll jump right out.. put him in the water and turn up the heat.. he'll sit in it till he's cooked... you might have heard that story along with one concerning the removing of liberties.. I haven't urned the A/C on yet.. I'm not liking them too much.. unless you have a great inside aeroobic activity going on.. then they are wonderfully necessary.. I'm up on the cool roof as I write.. but the most restorative is the aroma.. but the cool is nice too.. and the night time moisture is restorative to a dry skin from a day in the sun.. night time rebuilds it.. if you stay out in it.. if night time comes and your inside under the humidity controled A/C.. the skin is week in the morning when you're back out in the sun...
as far as us handling it.. I know I can. and the 4' brug in a 8" plastic pot on the roof with 5 open flowers .. gets a bit wilty in the sun... on the 160* roof.. but can handle it... you'd not have thought it could either..ok so the flowers don't bounce back like the leaves and limbs do... when it's watered... but it will make new ones soon...