Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Garden #86, 1 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
Now, I wish the cold WOULD kill this Schefflera tree. Although it gets to be a huge, beautiful tree I wish I had never planted it so close to the pool deck. The root system on this thing are massive. I thought for sure it was dead after last winter but uh uh, it grew back! It didn't get real big this year, it's usually taller than the house ... I'm hoping maybe if we have a lot of cold temp's this winter, it will be the last of it!

I will first show a photo of what it looked like before last winters freezes, this is how it looked October 2009: