I read your posting about your "native" plants and cant believe how lucky you are... seeds we long for grow naturally in your back yards ...Can I move there....have an extra room for rent? LOL

I live in zone 4/5 and have to winter all my tropicals in the house but I really dont mind...I am now teaching the pleasures of gardening to my grandbaby Nicholas..he loves to plant the seed and amazingly at the age of three has the patience to wait...well, let me tell you the excitement when he and I go out to the greenhouse and see the little thing poking out of the soil... that smile is worth a million dollars... I do think I have another gardener in the family...well at least Nicholas doesnt sit on the flowers any more....lol

Be well, and may you always walk in the gentlest of breezes, Deborah and Nicholas

You are lucky that you have a potential gardener in your family. In my immediate family, no-one really loves it.
They are very patient with me when I go into rhapsodies over some plant and they will oblige me when I drag them downstairs to oooh and aaaah over some flower.
But my sisters and my mother (from whom I got this dreaded condition) are fellow sufferers.

But you know you're pretty lucky that you, at least, can grow tropicals in a greenhouse whereas I (and other sub to full tropical dwellers) can't grow the cold stuff. Well I suppose we could if we had a greenhouse with some heavy duty air conditioners. :))

Annie