It's My Fantasy; I Can Try If I Want To.

For Christmas I received root cuttings of these tropical flowers. I'm hoping to grow them in my sunny window.

I'm only 10 years away from having a Plumeria Tree like this one!

Twenty years ago, Mom took me to Hawaii. I haven't been the same since. In fact, that visit pretty much ruined me for life.

 

I'm only 5 years away from having a Red Ginger bush like this one!

Up until that first visit to Hawaii, I'd been happily immersed in my zone 3 garden with nary a clue as to how the other half lived.

Once we had strolled the lush gardens on Maui, I realized my future hinged on one of three things:

- Plan A: Win the lottery.  [I still hold out hope.]
- Plan B: Use a grow light. [Lessons learned. One cannot fool these tropical beauties.]

Plan C - my latest and greatest scheme - involves an entire sting operation.
* I plan to squeeze my tropical flower root cuttings (just tiny little seedlings right now*) into a south-facing bay window, crank up the humidifier and convince them they're still living in paradise.

Will it work? Who knows?

More importantly... Who cares?

It's 7 degrees here, today. If I can convince these beauties they're living in Hawaii, perhaps I can fool myself into believing that, too.

* I photographed all of these flowers on my last trip to the Kula Botanical Gardens in Maui, Hawaii. A magical place, if ever I've seen one.