Hot by 10 am in the sun, which is becoming pretty direct as it creeps towards it's zenith.
Virginia Creeper arrived, 6 sized bare roots. Snipped a little of one of the vines, which looked dead, and it was a healthy green inside. Cold Spring Farms, they are very professional. I think in a few days we'll see some green on the outside. I planted two with the orange, against the northern wall of the building. Hopefully heighth can be managed, and horizontal growth encouraged. Another planted with the macho fern, against the east wall between bougie and gardenia. Not sure about the growth of the vine around the branches of the bougainvillea. I planted two of the larger roots in a pot by themselves against western wall. The last with the Bird of Paradise which I'll keep against that wall. Still looking for another climber for to ensure the north wall gets covered and maybe at some point the large square supports of the the roof that covers a third of the terrace.
"My Good Friend" is showing signs of wet feet and rot. I trimmed all limp dead leaves, cleaned all debris around roots and am hoping some air circulation will lighten up the soil, which surprisingly has a lot of clay in it. I can't imaging PHOE using a heavy soil like that if there danger of being tooo heavy. Might not be the soil, maybe overwatering? it's been moved around lately necessitated by spring cleaning, which they don't like. I go to the Thompson's and see what they say. Then maybe to the oracles at the Yahoo Begonia group.
"Red Fred" is a healthy plant, but the outer leaves are crisp around the edges. U402 ok, trimmed some of leginness poking the cuttings in the larger rhizome pots. it might be very pretty to have the delicate form of U402 poking out from underneath.
"PHOE's Cloe" is healthy, the outside of some of the larger leaves are a little burned. I've sent picks to the experts at the yahoo begonia groups. A lot to learn here.
Tossed the Croton, still had white flies, had to get it out of the garden.
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