Joe, Your garden (& your photos)are stunning! & quite an inspiration-some questions, 1)which bananas do best for you & do they stay outdoors? 2)Your hibiscus are beautiful, do you overwinter these & what are your tips? 3)How about mandevilla, is this overwintered or put in at the beginning of the summer? You garden looks fabulous, I bet your neighbors come over all the time, checking it out. I really love the combo of eucalyptus, xanthosoma, setacresea, lysimachia, (& some other things I couldn't identify). I'm just starting w/ hardy tropical plants & your garden is the pinnacle of what I'd like to achieve! What is the purple-stemmed plant in photos 35 & 36 & is that fatsia w/ the pothos on a pole? Sorry for all the questions, but your creation has just blown me away, I imagine quite alot of hard work has gone into it. Thanks for sharing with us...Linda

All I can say is where do you live and when are you not at home, lol. Just kidding. That is really incredible. I am so envious its unreal. I love the diversity of your collection. Just amazing. I like the brugs too, lol. I had to go back and look when I saw the other comments and almost messed up my keyboard with drool, lol. Where do you plant shop? They have no good stuff around here waahaaa. Ebay here I come again. Don't look Ethel....but it was too late, lol. I will have to be good until payday but just wait, lol.

Oh I wanna visit the Cay! :o) I like that Home Depot Bromeliad! All very gorgeous...thanks for the pics.

"elephant ears" It may interest you to know that you can bloom some aroids with a single high dose of gibberellic acid. In my experience, GA does not cause morphological changes in elephant ears. See http://www.fshs.org/Proceedings/Password%20Protected/1995%20Vol.%20108/23-24%20(HENNY).pdf