Your Favorite Tropical Looking Hardy Plants

19 years ago

Mine are: Catalpa Trees, Paulownia Trees, some vegetables like squash, greens, beans on trellises, Honey Locust trees (sort of palm like), Ornamental grasses, grape vines heavily fertilized for large leaves, (not concerned about grape production)well, I have more but I'll stop here and let someone else start adding their favs. ;-)

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tropicalpunch
19 years ago
Passion flowers, gingers, austrailian fern, banana palms
JohnnieB
19 years ago
Always worth discussing again but there have been a couple of threads on this same topic, e.g., see link.

Here is a link that might be useful: Hardy tropical looking plants?
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18 years ago
My favorite is perennial hibiscus. I also love Musa Basjoo bananas, oleanders, crepe myrtles, cold hardy palms Washingtonia filifera. I also love Brugmansia, elephant ears & bottlebrush trees.

These plants will make it through the winters without replanting.

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