Beautiful, Carol. Love that easter cactus! I'm with you, Ted. Very little organization in my garden for sure. I have my own private botanical jungle. By the end of summer, it really is a jungle out there.
Like Ursula, I move things around according to the available light at a given time of year. (my shelf unit of phals really needs to move further into the shade for a couple of months now!)
We went to that Caladium Festival in Lk. Placid a few years ago, and it was a visual overload of fabulous plants. Mye caladiums like bright shade, just like orchids. Fortunately for most of the year I have lots of nice bright shade under my big oak trees where I can park my pots of caladiums and they make a pretty show. When they die back in winter, all the pots are gathered on the south side of the house where it's protected from the cold north wind that comes along after each cold front. We regularly get nights down into the low 40's in January and February - and this year in March, too! Sometimes we do get down into the 30's and in the 12 years we've been here we've had a couple of nights that actually froze. I cover my veggies to keep them producing and of course the orchids get covered up when it gets below 50, too. But I never have had to protect the caladiums. They come back faithfully. I've got a couple of new ones just coming along, will post them in a week or so.
One thing, in your dryer climate, maybe they'd survive winter if you stash the pots under one of your orchid benches where they'd get a little bit of water and a little higher humidity than if they were in the garden? Simulate a Florida winter?
