Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Garden #126, 1 by joeswife

joeswife wrote:
well, brought in a few more plants from outside.. starting to look really good in the other garden room..
KayJOnes, I am sending out a box to you in the am, call me when u get it, I sure love what you have sent me!
going down to the 40's at nights a few days, I have caught two mice, but a cat keeps taking the traps and all if we don't empty them right away. Joanna has brought in Gamera( her old turtle I rescued) and Goji, ( a new box turtle young one I saved from being squished) she is afraid something will try to eat them. that is ok, fish are already down there and now for some reason, I went out ot bring in a plant, and a squirrel was curled up on the porch, i thought it was dead, one eye is all messed up, it is very thin, I think it is one I am used to talking too and it came to me for help, Joe had a fit and made me take it to the garbage, but I couldn't do that, so I wrapped it up in a towel and nestled it in the Ivy over there, and then while looking for my mouse trap, I found the cat undoing the towel, so I shooed it away and brought it in, it is very docile, and is now in a heatead terrarium , if it makes it thru the night that is a good sign, I said my goodbyes tho, just in case it doesn't make it. It is so sad how many squished andmangled animals I saw on the way home from AR, it is like people try to hit them on purpose .. today I passed a large badger still shaking from his recent hit by a car, it was on the roadside, broke my heart. A doe and fawn both still jerking yestrday on the road, I had to swerve to miss them, and several racoons, possums and armidillos, I counted about twelve squished turtles coming home, rescued a water turtle about a fot in diameter and brought it home to Derby to put in the pond we have over in the park.. now I know it will be safe.Joanna said Mom you can't keep rescuing wild animals to replace Duke, let's just get a real pet.. now just last night when I asked her to chek the mouse trap , she came in all pouty sad faced cuz there was a mouse in the trap I set out ten minutes earlier. I can't stand mice in the house, she said she thinks they are cute, and still creatures, so why do I kill them? * sigh* I am so confused.
I have to have this shrub, but first I have to find out what it is..