Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Plants and Gardens #120, 1 by dyzzypyxxy

dyzzypyxxy wrote:
Rita, so glad you're back and such a pleasure to see your beautiful plants! Is the blue flower with white eye and purple stems the blue ginger, by any chance? The peachy canna is a winner too. Here's a shot of the wonderful spiral ginger you sent me last fall. It's a beauty.

Alice, I just LOVE that Teacup Alocasia! The black stems are amazing. Was going to put one of my A. Stingrays into the big urn on the patio but I think I'm going to search for a Teacup now, instead. I feel your pain with the uneven distribution of rain. We've had some but everyone else around us got LOTS.

Ben, you will love that Tricolor sage. If you have two, put one in the ground at the new place, somewhere really sunny and dry. It will make a nice small shrub, low and spreading. I can't grow it here, but have it in my daughter's garden in Salt Lake City. It's beautiful and tasty, too. Oh, and quite hardy but not as stout as the plainer colors. It roots itself where the branches touch the ground, too. Spread the joy.