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

plantladylin wrote:
Kay: The Red Pentas are no more, lost to the freezes last winter and I didn't replace them. Pentas will survive for a long time here usually but it was just so cold for so long last winter that they succumbed. There are a few Knock Out Roses in that area now. My yard is looking pretty pitiful this year ... come spring I may undertake a lot of new landscaping, I want to go with mainly native plants. I also think next winter I will try to talk my husband into wrapping the entire deck in heavy plastic ahead of the first predicted cold snap and just leave it all winter ... and maybe put a heater out there to offer more protection to all the container plants!