Tropicals

Amy and Gen Tropicanna the Garden: a Giveaway!

March 10, 2011 30 comments
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***Giveaway below*** Outside of the garden, I’m attracted to cool, subdued colors, like purples, blues, blacks and greys. But lately, in the garden? Give me some color! Wild, exuberant color, that shocks the eyes and cheers the soul. So when the kind folks out at Tesselaar Plants offered to send Amy Stewart and I some [...]

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Shamelessly Tropical: Hawt Plants for a Variety of Climates (The Garden Designers Roundtable on Under-Utilized Plants)

July 27, 2010 21 comments
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I admit it. I’m in zonal denial. I love the huge tender leaves of bananas, the glorious hanging trumpets of Brugmansia, and anything so wild and lush that it makes me feel like I’m on vacation to the kind of rainforest-y tropics that have monkeys and great winding green snakes and crazy bugs that remind [...]

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