Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Plants #105, 1 by ardesia

ardesia wrote:
I have always felt gingers needed a year or two to get established then watch out, they will bloom and run like crazy. Mine are blooming late this year, they are just setting buds now. Had to be that weird winter we just had.

Being that Paula will be moving sometime soon, I think we all need to go and help her transfer the plants, maybe a few will fall off the truck or something along the way. :-)

Putting the rocks on the plants to keep the squirrels out made me laugh, we have this silly toad that is excellent at catching the bugs that hang around our front door. Unfortunately, he was killing the plants where he liked to sit and hide. He would dig into a container and since he is so large, about 4" now, he was tearing up the roots. I thought I would outsmart him by putting river rocks in the pots and one night I kept hearing plop, plop, and discovered that darn toad was tossing the rocks down the front steps. I made him a little toad house which he ignored until I put some crumbs there to attract bugs, now he is happily ensconced in his own place. The grandkids got a kick out of granny's new pet.