Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Garden # 94, 1 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
Rachel: LOL, you must be a youngster. Tolmiea menziesii ("Piggy Back" plant): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolmiea was a real popular houseplant back in the 1960's and 1970's. Like HollyAnn, I had not seen one around in many years.

GAgirl: The Root Beer plant is so pretty and sounds very interesting. I thank you for your kind offer but I will have to pass. LOL, we have too many invasive plants down here in Florida and I am too old to deal with trying to tackle removing them anymore! I'm afraid our yard is going to be taken over by Brazilian Pepper trees, Southern Sword Fern, Cape Honeysuckle, Cherry Laurel trees and Black Cherry trees ... among other things!

Debra: LOL, the Epiphyllum oxypetalum does get very, very large. You will either have to live with it taking over your basement or prune it up and root cuttings ... you could tack some small nails all over the walls and ceiling and tie fishing line to them and let the plant go wild, which it looks to be happily doing!

Well, I'm heading outside to play in the dirt for awhile. I began cutting back the tree philo's in the side yard yesterday and got a pile of ugly brown, dead leaves. I hear the tree folks out there now ... taking down a huge Sabal Palm just outside the fence. The power company is going to replace a power pole and I guess the big palm tree was in their way. They were trimming trees along the road yesterday afternoon and a worker knocked on the door and asked for our permission to remove the palm since it's on our property.

Have a great day everyone ... and a Happy St. Pats day to all my fellow Irishmen/women ... and everyone who is just "Irish" on March 17th each year!