Specialty Gardening: Cottage Gardening for Hot Climates, 0 by DaleTheGardener

DaleTheGardener wrote:
Pagancat,

The orange above is Epidendrum http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/66666/index.html

Salvias that do grow here are the wild and rangy types, best as a hedge plant and then the hurricanes flattens them. Zinnias and marigolds both rot in the summer. Except the small flowering zinnias, I love 'Old Mexico', 'Chippendale' and 'Persian Carpet'. I have gotten very tired of the 'Profusion' since they only have three colors. Dietes bicolor is very weedy here because of all the moisture in summer and it needs to be groomed alot in summer because of all the rapid growth and brown leaves (and it doesn't bloom much, spring only).

For 'grassy' foliage this year I am tyring some Dierama species from SAfrica that grow in the warmer areas. I have tried the ones from the Cape, but, they need cooler summer nights. http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/1684/index.html