I hope growers of all things tropicalesque will enjoy this:
Last summer, when the plants were at their best: bamboo, honeysuckle, fatsia and lilies in the front yard, and looking down the path to the backyard, a grove of bananas, ginger, gunnera, ricinus. tall grasses, fig trees, clematis, vines and flowers could be seen. A little girl walking by stopped her mother and said, "Look at all that NATURE!"

Can't wait for summer---I love thrilling my neighbors.