That is funny Carol. My love of tropicals is because of my travel and vacations took me to warmer climates than I live. I would see people cutting down plants that we baby through the winter after spending exorbitant amount of money.
I was on business trips and in my business suit and heels digging in dumpsters in front of hotels gathering plants they were throwing away that I had been trying to order.
When I was in Hawaii I was just amazed at the beauty.
In Puerto Rico I got some plants at a business friends home in a area that she called her weeds that she would cut down and throw away.
This is what she called weeds to be cut down and thrown away.