Joe’s Delaware Garden

A tropical collection

Today we ’re visiting Joe Seamone ’s garden . Joe gardens in southern Delaware , about 10 miles inland , in USDA Hardiness Zone 7b .

Sabalminor(dwarf palmetto , Zones 7–11 ) is one of the most inhuman - large-minded medallion .

Joe’sSabalminoris tuck in a corner of the house , which is a great stain to put borderline hardy plant for supernumerary protection from the wintertime coldness .

One of the peppiness lilies ( Hedychium , looks like it might be the cultivar ‘ Tara ’ , Zones 7–10 ) . These tropic - looking plants have dramatic foliage and beautiful , often fragrant , flowers in belated summer . They ’re a great elbow room to land a tropical flair to the garden .

The purple flowers ofRuelliasimplex(Mexican petunia , Zones 7–10 ) look great with the bright orange cannas ( Cannahybrid , Zones 7–10 or as a tender medulla ) behind them .

Bananas seem like quintessentially tropic plants , but the Japanese fiber banana ( Musabasjoo ) can tolerate a lot of cold , even surviving wintertime in Zone 5 if given a sheltered spot and a inscrutable winter mulch to protect the roots .

Hibiscusmutabilis(cotton rose , Zones 7–11 ) has beautiful flush that open white and transfer to knock as they age . This hibiscus can acquire into a large bush or minuscule tree in warm climates but will stop dead to the soil each winter in the colder end of its range .

Fatsiajaponica‘Variegata ’ ( zone 7–10 ) forms a little bush with bighearted , dramatic parting and in the fall puts up these magnanimous clusters of small , white peak . This is a bang-up shrub for shaded conditions in warm mood and can also really be grown as a houseplant in colder climes .

It ’s fairly awesome that Joe has created this tropical - look jungle of plant life in Delaware !

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