On (25 Sep 97) Maria Edelhausen wrote to Jim Venedam...
 JV> We have LOTS of hibiscus around here. They seem to love our climate,
 ME> Are those hibuscus losing their leaves or are they green all year in
 ME> your nice climat? I suppose they are without leaves in wintertime.
I had to think about it for a minute.... When I put the Christmas
lights up, the leaves are still there, so they don't lose their leaves.
 JV> I have a lot of Lantana that I'm planning on pulling up when
 JV> the weather gets cooler.
 ME> Why are you pulling up the Lantana's?  I thought the climate
   > at yours is that nice and warm so that the Lantana's could 
   > stay outside for all winter. 
 
Yes. The Lantana lives thru the winter. The branches are quite 
woody, so I imagine they'd survive a frost, maybe even a freeze.
These two bushes are becoming a nuisance to me. I have a "hedge"
behind my pool as a screen. There is about 15 feet of Cardinal 
Plant which grows to about 6 feet. It has big leaves and loads 
of red flowers all summer and fall. (The flowers look something 
like salvia). The plants have spread easily from the one plant 
my neighbor gave me. They do die off easily in the first frost, 
but the roots live and come back in the spring.
Next is a bird feeder and bird bath, then I have about 15 feet 
of Lantana, made up of maybe 3 plants. They're a little too 
frisky to keep neat. Grow every which way. They also seed 
themselves everywhere. The flowers interested me when I first 
saw them. A flower made up of circles of smaller flowers, all 
multicolored.
I have two 1 gallon pots of the orange lantana that I'm going 
to plant somewhere at my mothers house. I've seen them in some 
commercial plantings. They grow low, and from a distance look 
like huge beds of marigolds.
Jimvee       
 
... Butterflies are self-propelled flowers.
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