Spice Up Your Garden With Tropical Beauties

Warm-climate wonders grace this garden for the summer

Today ’s photos do from Barbara Cain of Norwell , Massachusetts , who divvy up some of the beauties from her garden this year . Many of these plants are tippy perennials — tropical works that ca n’t go the wintertime in New England but can be grown as yearbook , or in the case of Barbara’sBrugmansia(angel ’s trumpet , Zones 8–11 ) , winter indoors before being returned to the garden . A surprising number of plant we think of as annuals are actually perennial in warm climates , and many of them are deserving trying to overwinter on a sunny windowsill so you’re able to reuse them the following season . Barbara describes keeping herBrugmansiain a disconsolate cellar over the wintertime . That has worked for me , too , and I have used the same technique to overwinter begonia and tropical hibiscus . It never hurts to give it a effort if the choice is leaving a plant outside to freeze .

Dwarf banana(Musasp . ) , sweet potato vine(Ipomoea batatas),and dipladenia(Mandevillasp.)provide a minuscule dab of colour in my annual pot next to my private road . All three plants are tender perennials , generally grow as annual in cold mood .

Monarch butterfly ontall verbena(Verbena bonariensis , Zones 7–10 or as annual ) . Though monarch butterflies require milkweed for their caterpillars , the grownup feed on ambrosia from a wide range of industrial plant as they migrate to the south for the wintertime .

Passionflower ( Passiflorasp . ) on my cedar tree Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree . The flower is a dainty surprise every year . It is a tropical , otherworldly vine .

VariegatedBrugmansia(angel ’s trumpet , Zones 8–11 ) . This flora was uprise from a cutting , and I ’ve have had it for many years . The flowers are very legion every year . It does need even fertilizing and frequent watering . I keep it in my basement in the dark for the winter and water it once in a while . I prune it back in the spring to murder deadened arm and to shape the works .

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