Comments on: Better late http://blog.blithewold.org/gardens/better-late/ a garden journal about public garden maintenance, seasonal tasks, garden events, stories about gardening, volunteers, flowers, bugs and wildlife Sat, 25 May 2013 00:22:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Lynn http://blog.blithewold.org/gardens/better-late/comment-page-1/#comment-6830 Lynn Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:27:52 +0000 http://blog.blithewold.org/?p=3003#comment-6830 wow, you still really have so much color! (and is that common name for Gomphocarpus physocarpus for real??!) I vote no on tropical holidays (unless it's a holiday in the tropics). When you're a kid in Texas and it's 75 degrees on Dec 25, and the poinsettias are gleaming in the garden, it just feels wrong. So does 3 months of frozen ground though, so I'm not sure I'm the best one to ask. Your closing line is brrrrilliant. <em>Lynn, You definitely know the best/worst of both worlds having moved from one extreme to the other! And I agree that a holiday in the tropics would probably feel just about perfect... I kid you not about the the Gomphocarpus - we first purchased seeds based entirely on the given common name. How cool that it turned out to be a great plant too! ("Swan plant" is its common name according to the AHS - boring!) -kris</em> wow, you still really have so much color! (and is that common name for Gomphocarpus physocarpus for real??!) I vote no on tropical holidays (unless it’s a holiday in the tropics). When you’re a kid in Texas and it’s 75 degrees on Dec 25, and the poinsettias are gleaming in the garden, it just feels wrong. So does 3 months of frozen ground though, so I’m not sure I’m the best one to ask. Your closing line is brrrrilliant.

Lynn, You definitely know the best/worst of both worlds having moved from one extreme to the other! And I agree that a holiday in the tropics would probably feel just about perfect… I kid you not about the the Gomphocarpus – we first purchased seeds based entirely on the given common name. How cool that it turned out to be a great plant too! (“Swan plant” is its common name according to the AHS – boring!) -kris

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