Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Garden #88 - January 2011, 1 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
You all are brave having plants shipped this time of year! I'd be so afraid they'd be totally frozen with the way the weather has been so far this winter!

Debra: I'm so glad you like the Bower Vine and Persian Shield ... I am not the best at packing plants for shipping and always worry that they won't travel well. But, you are such a great grower I bet you could bring any plant back to it's original beautiful state! Why are you skeered of Crotons? They are so colorful and fairly easy if given bright enough light and water. You could always grow them just for the summer months. I love Cyclamen but they are short lived down here with the heat so I buy a couple and enjoy them for as long as they survive, LOL. Is your newest plant the Boston Fern? If you like ferns I'll be glad to send you some Nephrolepsis cordifolia (Southern Sword Fern) in the spring! It's a beautiful fern but is so invasive down here and wants to take over the yard.