It's the 25th of October, and still no frost, which is now over-due by about 2 weeks. Fall color may be a bit of a bust this year because the first freeze may be a hard one and not the lighter series of frosts that promote leaf color change. The area is still pretty green. But TPP got a bit nervous and started the plant migration shortly after mid-October. This is when all of the tropical plants, or at least non-hardy plants, get taken inside after their nearly 5 month R & R outside for the summer. The fluffy tailed tree rats decided to simply chew up two epiphyte cacti, so-called Christmas cacti, not actually eating, just chewing up. Mrs. Phactor thinks they needed replacing anyways. A number of plants are a bit confused by the weather pattern and some break-through flowering is happening even though the foolishness of this has been explained (stoopid azaleas). Most of the tropicals flower quite well during their winter inside (just check out past Friday Fabulous Flowers during January and February). A couple of tough bonsai trees that seem to do well with a taste of cooler weather a are all the remain outside. Now the sun room porch looks cheerfully vegetative.
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