Jim Lewis wrote:


Why somebody in Florida wouldn't want to do tropicals is beyond
me!


There's Florida and then there's FLORIDA, Craig.

The Florida everyone knows (Disneyland and points south, where
temperatures in the 40s make headlines) isn't the Florida I live
in.

In the winter, here, it gets down to 8 degrees sometimes, Craig.
We can have a few weeks when temperatures never reach 40. Now, I
KNOW that's nothing to you, a veteran of Maine and other New
England winters, but it isn't "tropical" and I just don't have
the inclination to either bring trees in the house (where trees
do NOT belong!) or build and maintain (and protect from falling
limbs and high winds, etc.) a greenhouse.

So it's just a bonsai lifestyle choice, I guess.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - The phrase
'sustainable growth' is an oxymoron. - Stephen Viederman

Just goes to show how much I know about Florida, I guess.

You're right, 40 is nothing for me. Swimming weather. 8 degrees at
night, that's cold, but not really cold.

It all depends on what you're accustomed to.

This past winter here in Orange County, NY was the toughest they've had
in a long time, and I would tease my parishoners about asking them when
winter was going to start. Got lots of strange looks. People would ask
me how the winter compared to Maine winters, and I'd just laugh.

Craig Cowing
NY
Zone 5b/6a Sunset 37

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