Went to bed with the air-conditioner on and today it is winter. I've brought in all the plants and trees. All of our plants are tropical but I have quite a few of real, real exotic plants, like amazon rain forest tropicals. (I'm no botanist but no one ever told me I couldn't grow these so here I am with probably more than I can handle lol) Anyway, now that they are all inside, except for the huge pots, my house looks like a jungle and I'm not exaggerating one bit. I tried to spread them out in every room but that didn't help. The plants and trees that are in the ground, well I hope for the best Hahaha … I can just picture the inside of your home looking like a tropical forest with the amount of plants you brought in from the cold. When we used to vacation @ Myrtle Beach April/May … I would buy my fuchsia plants, etc. at their super Walmarts … they were only $5.00 each vs. paying the jacked up price of $12.00 - $15.00 in Vermont/upstate New York. So coming home we would stop overnight at a motel and use the luggage cart (to cart them all into our room @ the Hampton Inn). People in the lobby would do a double take with all the hanging plants we had to haul inside our room. It looked and smelled like the Garden of Eden. :whistle: Can you cover your smaller bushes/shrubs with old bed linens or blankets to keep them warm? Yes, I am doing that now. I have a sleeping bag for a stephanotis vine outside and I have some blankets and Christmas lights we will use for others. Fuchsias I love and especially Mike loves them but they won't grow here, it is waaay too humid and they get fungus NEVERTHELESS, year after year every spring Mike will buy a hanging basket and will be crushed when it dies. :groan Oh wow, I didn’t know too much humidity will kill them. Here I envied the southern states for having fuchsias all year. If I bring mine indoors for the winter they will die because of lack of sunshine for the next 6 months. The same with the red and pink mandevilla vine plants.
