Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Garden #114, 1 by dyzzypyxxy

dyzzypyxxy wrote:
So glad to hear that begonia might be what we have, Alice. It was really gorgeous and smelled lovely. I'm keeping my eye out for a Sweet Shrub, too. Love those fragrant plants! Sounds like it might bloom readily for me here, as we get more cool nights than Cassie does.

Rita, I have this blooming for the first time, and it is a cutting I got from you last spring. Of course, I have forgotten what you said it is . . . and the tag is long gone ?? Maybe Brazilian Red Cloak? Looks like the bracts are hanging on, but the flowers may have succumbed to the cool night we had last week. The leaves are a foot long and 9in. wide. My purple firespike you sent me at the same time has a flower coming, too!

So very nice to be having a warmer December (so far) this year! I may - finally! - get flowers on my Shooting Star clerodendron if the weather holds, too! It appears to have buds starting.