Do you have a picture with a bloom, would like to make sure it is the plant I want. I live in Winter Park. Have been looking for this plant. But there are two, I am looking for the Alpinia Officinarum a/k/a Lesser Galangal. Blooms are a spree. Have no idea what area you are in. My email is bf2277@yahoo.com.

Never too late to plant them.......but you won't get any fruit:) They take quite some time, almost 100 days so no chance at all. Just wait and plant them mid march.

Some things coming up in the February update are: Mexicola avocado has grown 40 inches since the November video (so far) . It seems like a never ending growth flush. Bacon avocado has grown 30 inches since the November video (so far). No chemical fertilizers. Guava is holding about thirty fruit so far when in the November video all the flowers were just dropping. Lots of oaks have been taken down for further expansion and sunlight. Garden beds moved to North side of pond. Planted a Florida Prince peach in early January. Had to dig up Kari starfruit because of a disease but put a new Kari in its place while nursing the now pruned old Kari in a pot. Some work will be done on the newest expansion on the north side of property. My burn barrels frost protection setup. Update on the strawberry patch. These are some of the things that will be coming up in the February update.

I finished off the front garden by the fence. Dug in and put upright the boards along the edge to keep the yard crew from killing everything. Planted a row of bromeliads, moved some cannas, pulled some oyster plant encroaching on the sidewalk and planted a border of it on the front bed, planted a Charles Grimaldi brug and discovered some sprouting elephant ears I forgot I had planted in there. Then to top it all off, I pulled out some different colored four o'clock seeds I had traded for and planted those along the back by the fence for the hummingbirds, so they'll grow out and around the taller plants. Then I cleared out the trash pile of limbs and branches & tossed them into the dumpster. All that took 3 hours. I'm exhausted, so now I'm going to take a shower and relax for the rest of the day.