LOL - it's only "color-coordinated" because I went out and bought a huge bag of 240 of those red solo cups at Costco for transplanting. It was super-cheap, and I plan to reuse them until they fall apart. All the other cups (purple, yellow, and white styrofoam) I just found in my cupboards, desparate for anything to use. The "trays" are old box lids, covered in plastic garbage bags to make them waterproof (I buy the garbage bags at costco too, they're my kitchen bags, and a box lasts me a really long time). The lower shelves (on the ground) are a mess of pots and gallon milk jugs holding water. I also have that heater, two bags of potting soil, and two 10 inch pots with dahlia tubers started in them littering up the floor (not enough light on the center shelves for the dahlias, I didn't think). Needless to say, there's not much room to actually "move" in there, but enough room for me to do what I need to (water and pot things up), if I'm careful. ;-) Once it's too hot for you to keep stuff inside, you can clean everything out, and then have a chance to get organized for next year, right? I'm trying to figure out how to turn this one into a really big dehydrator this summer...

I love your Thai Giant. I used milorganite on my plumeria and brugs the last few years and they did really amazing. This last year I didn't use it. I can really see the difference with last few years they got monsterous and bloomed nonstop. This year they are not blooming near as much. I got a few seedpods on my Mojito this year. I don't know what they are crossed with or if it pollinated itself. One other colocasia you might like is Maui Magic. It has a purplish black shiny leaf and is very vigorous. Xanthosoma atrovirens (mickey mouse taro) the varigated form, is really pretty. I also like alocasia 'Stingray' that looks like little stingrays. I found them very tender (we got down to 17 last year) so protect them well.

We are currently installing these shingles on our new home and the shingling is almost complete. I would classify the color somewhere between black and slate. I really didn't want "black" black so I'm happy with how it is turning out. This post was edited by omgwhatamidoing on Mon, Nov 25, 13 at 13:17

Very popular color from Certainteed. Looks good when installed.