Name: Elaine Sarasota, Fl The one constant in life is change
Those gingers do have the most delicious fragrance, don't they? Mine didn't bloom much this summer as the bamboo clump was leaning out and shading them. We have now trimmed back the bamboo (finally!) and I'm hoping the gingers will get on with the program now.
Another great fragrance, my Brugs 'Charles Grimaldi' and 'Monster White' have a huge flush of blooms going on. Sadly, all my brugs are 'going south' this winter, as they are all infected with Fusarium, it appears. They're slowly declining, making fewer and smaller leaves each flush.
Begonias, on the other hand are loving the cooler weather and making flowers. This one is a 'cutting' I broke off during the summer. Just stuck it in a pot of soil and away it went!
This is begonia 'Looking Glass' which I can never get a good picture of. Its leaves are as shiny as aluminum foil.
I keep this wild Canna around because it has such nice graceful flowers. It was supposed to also have variegated foliage but . ..
Elaine
"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." –Winston Churchill
during the summer. Just stuck it in a pot of soil and away it went!
