http://coolexotics.com/plant-408.html#

I've never seen a Mexican BoP ... cool.
Sounds a tad easier than the other one to care for.
Thanks for the link.
Barb

Nice yard Don 8)

I have tried many times but can't seem to get mexican bird of paradice to grow here.

Thanks Aaron,not sure if it will grow and over winter,but I have been told by the man I bought it from it will,so I'm game for at least one shot at it!!!

Would it survive in a wet winter and dry summer zone 8b?

Dry summer,it would,but the wet winter,would be mighty tough on it,if you could keep it dry.it would make it.

Compare the first pic to todays pic,for look at the growth
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Holy cow, Don, it's summer at your place.
Nice growth...
Barb

Not quite,but when you get a few nights staying in the 60's things start to grow!

It'll soon be machete time, ha ha, Don!
Barb

LOL!
Yeah about the 4th of july!!!

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Wow what a transformation!
Everything looks great, bananas are really shooting nicely.
In second pic, at front, is that Fatsia?
Same pic, what are those spikey-things (I should probably know...but not the bird!) you've got growing in the garden?

And look at the stem on that banana in the third pic at right! 😯
Love the grass roofed trellis!
Nice job Don
Barb

Thanks Barb,
That big leaf is the giant Castor bean,which will be close to 25 ft tall by the end of September!
With a trunk of 5 inches in diameter these really grow fast here with lots of water and fertilize.
The spiny things are just your ordinary cat tails.Very hardy and give that rainforest tropical look to the landscape,they grow good in water as well as land too!
Yep the bananas are really starting to take off now,we had a 90* day lastweek,and they all shot up new leaves that day!!!

Castor bean is quite the novelty ! It'd take 3 years to compost a 25-footer 😆
Barb