Hi Harold! I live in Panama City Florida. Milton is just down the road isn't it? I see the location all the time when the weather map is being shown on TV. I have mostly anitque roses on their own roots. I'm having a major problem with some unknown grass from hades that we just can't get rid of. It has invaded our rose beds and you honestly can't sit there and just pull it up. The roots go way down and have some kind of nut on them. I googled nut grass and it is not that. I probably got the seeds in some bags of cheap potting soil I used. What roses do you mostly grow? Antiques? Moderns? Down here the Tea's are wonderful for the most part BS free roses. Sometimes my Teas will get blackspot but rebound without being sprayed. I am a native of Panama City. It sure has changed over the years! Deb

We thought it was a leaf oddly enough when we first saw it. It was night time and it sure wasn't dead! I think it was trapped in the patio or couldn't figure out how to get out so I picked up, snapped a couple pictures and put it out on a tree. It was truly beautiful!

Sophie... As a young lad i was taught a simple little poem to remember how to distinguish the scarlet king snake from a coral snake. Red & Black, Friend of Jack, Red and Yellow, Kill the Fellow.

Have not repotted the plant yet - chore did not get done. Perhaps this afternoon. Thanks for the advice. My last plant lived in dappled shade until mid-afternoon, and then full sun. Seemed to do fine. I haven't seen my neighbor to ask her where this pot was located. Hers was far more proliferous than my plant, but do I think she has had this plant forever. I think I remember it in the same pot when I was given the pup and that was quite awhile ago. SJN, you are right. I did plant my Michelia Alba into the ground. Here's what it looked like at purchase in April 2016. Here it is when initially potted up. It sailed through winter 2017. We had no hard freeze. I planted it into the ground last April 2017 and it was a beautiful little tree all of last year - and bloomed so nicely! But yes, it froze all the way back to the roots in winter 2018. It's coming back very strongly. It is full of new growth, all from the base of the tree. I removed all of the dead parts - all of the tree from the base of the trunk and up. I imagine it will be a shrub from now on. I don't expect that I will ever take a tree-form again. I will get picture and post today. DG, I look forward to an eventual update on your Buddha's Hand planted in the ground. I'm still thinking about doing the same and still mulling it over. I wonder if it will spread - and if aggressively? Invasive plants always start slowly at first - they fool you - and then when you are not looking, they take over and are everywhere! Carol