Tropicals & Tender Perennials: steered here for ID assistance, 1 by momlady

momlady wrote:
OCCAROL, Bob, and ibartoo, Well, I ran out today and bought a hanging pot for my plant, gave it a bath, and gave it some water and fertilizer. Now that I have seen the beautiful flowers, I am jazzed! You all are laughing at me, I know. How many do you each have? And me making a big fuss about one.
I see what you mean about the yellow leaves from too much sun. It is interesting that it is still happy enough to bloom. It must take a bit of scorch in stride. I will change the sun exposure very slowly to see if I can avoid that, though. What a different lifestyle, "hanging from the Lemon tree... they live there year round." And I even see a lemon on the tree! Sometimes I get envious. But, my climate makes it easy to grow delphiniums and rhododendrons, which struggle many other places.
I live 5 miles from the Canadian border, a 45 minute drive from Puget Sound, and a 45 minute drive from Mount Baker. Being in the foothills of the mountain, the clouds bump up against the mountain and stop over our house, rising up, getting colder, and dropping their rain. So we have a wetter climate that you did in Clarkston. I have a pot on the deck with some succulents in it, and cleaned it up a bit the other day. There was moss growing in the pot with the hens and chicks. Only here! I should have taken a picture for submission to a "what is wrong in this picture" contest. I am attaching a pic of our house from several winters ago. It was unusually deep snow and it's been much less in the last few years.
How did you all get interested in these plants? And how many do you have? Have they taken over? I could see getting kind of addicted because of the flowers. Alice