Tropical Beauty in Maui

Some tropical escapism

Today Margaret Pettit is share some photos of tropic beauty from Maui ! If it is still cold where you garden , prepare to indulge in a small tropical escapism .

A bright bloom on a tropic hibiscus ( Hibiscusrosa - sinensis , geographical zone 10–11 ) . This superb flower is an iconic dweller of warm - climate gardens around the ball , but interestingly , it has never been identified growing in the natural state , so the exact origins of the plant are unknown . Some research worker cerebrate it may have originated in India and quickly spread through gardens in Asia and the Pacific .

If you do n’t survive somewhere affectionate enough for hibiscus to be repeated outside , recall that it can be successfullyoverwinteredif kept somewhere cool and dry , such as a basement or a frost - gratis garage . Keep these plants very ironic to impel them into quiescency , and they will drop all their leaves and wait out the wintertime month until warmth and piss get them back into growth in the spring .

Bougainvillea is aboriginal to South America , but the brilliantly colored , long - lasting bracts that surround the little flowers have made this works nearly ubiquitous in warm climates .

Red peppiness ( Alpiniapurpurata , Zones 10–11 ) . Though they face like flowers , these showy red things are actually bracts that hem in the true flowers , which are small and white . But the bract are the show for the garden , stool a beautiful , long - last display .

A banyan tree ( Ficusbenghalensis , Zones 10–11 ) . This tree can pass around to become one of the great in the world , because the branches produce dangling roots that can grow down to the ground to support the continued bedcover of the branches . One specimen in India track over four - and - a - half acres !

Roots of the banyan tree reaching the ground to support the spreading limb .

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