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Houston, Texas 77008
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TROPICALS |
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The
Victorians fell for them. Now we have, too.
Tropicals. Many bring not only exotic blooms
but colorful, even flamboyant foliage to the summer
garden.
Tropicals
are lush and architectural. These plants aren’t shy,
and unlike many that wilt in our heat, tropicals are
at their best. Hybridization
has stirred new interest in more familiar types.
Coleuses, for example,
display every leaf design imaginable, and there
are cultivars for sun and shade.
Cannas, too, are more striking these days, and
those with colorful, striped foliage add vertical
interest at the back of the bed.
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Gingers,
which vary from inches to several feet in height, are
a must in the summer garden. The tall shell gingers
and fragrant butterfly gingers are longtime favorites
here, but more recently other genera of root-hardy
gingers are available. The peacock types, with large,
variegated leaves and daily flat, iridescent blooms,
are excellent low-growing groundcovers in
summer shade. Add height with the
complementary Persian shield, a perennial
tropical with purple, green and silver foliage. The
hidden gingers carry the tropical look well with
large, pleated leaves and are ideal companions with
fragrant plumerias. Spiral gingers have foliage
arranged along a stiff stalk that winds as it climbs
to its mature height. Midsummer, the stalks sport a
brightly colored cone.
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Most
tropicals are easy to grow. Check the moisture needs
of those grown in containers daily during the summer
as the soil dries quickly in the heat.
Frequent watering also leaches nutrients from
the soil, so adjust fertilizing schedules accordingly.
Tropicals benefit from applications of a balanced
formula, such as an 8-8-8. You will find special
formulas for long-flowering tropicals such as hibiscus
(which prefers more potassium than phosphorus) and
plumerias.
We
stock a large variety of tropical plants year round,
but have the largest selection during the warm, spring
and summer months.

Add a root-hardy banana, blue butterfly bush (Clerodendrum
ugandense), the flashy scarlet pagoda flower (Clerodendrum
speciosissimum) the highly fragrant angel’s trumpet
(Brugmansia), an exotic rangoon creeper along a sturdy
trellis, and pots
of tropical hibiscus in a wild array of colors to
flush out the tropical garden.

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