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Gardens for Exotics - Getting Away at Home - Page 5

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Sep 11, 1998

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14. Sep 15, 1998 5:13 PM
It appears that a lot of us are growing tender bulbs and perennials in colder climates, somaybe someone has a suggestion for me. I've had great success in overwintering brugmansias, cannas, dahlias, t ...

-- posted by CarolWallace

13. Sep 14, 1998 9:29 AM
I tried three times before I succeeded, Kirk - but only because critters kept getting into the pond and damaging the tuber's growing tips.

I just got this link from Barb Dorsett for a really trop ...

-- posted by CarolWallace

12. Sep 14, 1998 1:48 AM
I have tried lotus twice. They don't like cool summers, they need warm, almost hot mud. On the Oregon coast and other English-type climates, they need to be grown in greenhouses. Not for winter protec ...

-- posted by Kirk_Johnson

11. Sep 13, 1998 4:46 PM
I only scratched the surface of things we northerners grow as annuals that are really tropicals - or all the things we grow as houseplants that can come outside, and I didn't do much with bog plants, ...

-- posted by CarolWallace

10. Sep 13, 1998 4:39 PM
I know it wasn't about ponds -- more about creating the tropical effect without being in the tropics -- and actually one can grow lotus in a container on the the deck or patio (or in an ersatz pond li ...

-- posted by Cottage_Garden

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