A story that appeared in The
Wall Street Journal, February 19, 1999 (The Plastic Palms of
Winter) by staff reporter June Fletcher, points out that many
people are decorating their homes with Palm and tropical related
items. As she says people are trying to make their homes, like
a day at the beach.
In another WSJ story (It's a
Jungle Out There) by staff reported Rebecca Lowell, which appeared
March 12,1999, tells how many gardeners living in the northern
part of the country are turning their backyards into a Fantasy
Island, by planting Tropical gardens!
Both stories aren't new to Jana
and me as we both like palms and the tropical look and collecting
palm or tropical related items, years before we even knew each
other. Jana even has a small tatoo of a palm on the heel of her
foot (Now that's dedication)! We had a wounderful tropical garden
in Portland Oregon, with many Palms, groves of bananas and bamboo,
two ponds with water falls, complete with a palm thatched roof
palapa!
For the price of one trip to
Hawaii, we had the Hawaiian look in our back yard every day.
Well, in the summer we did. A tropical garden can be a high maintenance
project in a temperate climate. Ponds are high maintenance and
many of our plants needed to come inside for the winter. By the
fifth year, some of those pots were getting mighty heavy to lug
up and down steps. We decided to move south and return to Jana's
native state of Texas. Not just Texas, but south Texas.
Now we grow more palm trees than ever, and hardly anything needs
to be hauled indoors for our month of winter here.
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