TROPICAL GARDENING

Besides a love of movies, another great passion of mine is tropical gardening. I have gardened since I was a kid and have always favored tropical things, even when we lived in the wicked north and, certainly, after re-settling in the south (Florida). Over the decades, I have tried a really wide range of tropical things, many with great success. Of course, there have been failures and difficulty; and I guess I have some strange genetic quirk; but if I love something, even if I is hard to grow, I keep trying and am slow to give up on any loved plant. There are certain plants I just grow while they flourish and, replace periodically when they don't. Happily, this group is in a minority. Many tropical plants are wonderfully easy to grow and very rewarding. Some give you blooms so often that living without them just seems somehow unthinkable.