Hostas are most wonderful. And tough as nails. I love 'em.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...5c2eb4d_4k.jpgAnole by J Solo, on Flickr

hi hibiscus...good morning

Lovely. For the past ten or so years, each year I dragged (read: had husband drag) four tropical hibiscus...hibiscii :) ... into the basement. Drag back out each spring. By the time they'd recover and start blooming it would usually be latter part of July or August.

I decided this year to quit, cease, and desist. Too much work for too little result. All four stayed outside, plus a mandevilla vine. We'll see how I feel about that when spring arrives.

yikes!! good luck with that...i love all those plants but i have ZERO experience with the cold....

hopefully they will prefer the feel of the actual seasonal shift, not die, and come back in spring faster

I assure you they won’t be back. This is Kansas, dude!

Sad face.

I was trying to be optimistic, hopelessly and ignorantly optimistic lol

Hopelessly optimistic is a beautiful way to go through life. And rather unrealistic for a tropical plant in zone 6. Here in these parts, we call those kind of plants annuals, unless we have a greenhouse. :biggrin:

Late to the party. Here's a few. I have a thing for trees.

My ornipets on the west bank.
View from kitchen window hosta guardian angel with Caryopteris snow fairy.
Siberian Iris along greenhouse (Annabelle's in back aren't blooming yet).
Stewartia in flower.
Epaulette tree in flower.
Bottlebrush buckeye flowers.
Ornipet 'American West.'

My garden is going to live on in KS w Water Witchin.

Welp, time to start getting some spring in the air. Here's some Dolly Daffodils...

http://www.orchidboard.com/community...um/Daff_1_.JPG

http://www.orchidboard.com/community...um/Daff_2_.JPG

WW, those are stunning
Dolly- that Ornipet and bottlebrush are also quite amazing