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Jim and I want to Thank Mike for hosting a great garden party! Your garden was beautiful! It was great seeing all the “palmnuts and crotonheads”! The auction was fun and the selections were great! Awesome! Thank you!!!!

March 30 does not work for us but April 6 would be much better!,

Merry Christmas to all! And wishing everyone a Happy and Healthy New Year! Marie, your recurved leaf croton looks like my Armadillo!

Hi Laisla! It appears to be a nice Rex!

Ana! Jim and I are always blown away by your beautiful garden! Perfect in every way! Thank you for hosting! The food was great! It was great to see all our croton friends! And as usual, I came home with more crotons than I brought! Thank you Karl for the free sanseivera varieties! It was fun...

So sorry to hear of Perry’s passing. I had just taken a picture of Perry’s croton “Karen Edge” in the Keys this weekend to show him at Ana’s next weekend. It was one that survived Irma. Perry was a good croton friend and will be missed by this croton family! Jim and Judy

As of now, Jim and I will be there!

A big Thank You to Mike W and to Mike H. Beautiful gardens, great hosts, great food and fun people! Croton auctions are always fun and a little crazy! Thanks to Karl for the sanseveirias! You’re very generous! And I loved your mother’s cookies! I had 2!! We need to do this more often!

Hi Karl! Glad to hear you are bringing some sansevieria plants as I have started collecting some to put in pots around the pool in the Keys. Have not had any significant rain since Irma and they seem to survive! Thanks ! Judy

March 31st sounds like a plan! Jim and I will be there!

I agree! It ha s been 1 1/2 years since our last event at Ana’s! And after Irma I am in need of restocking-especially in the Keys!

Ana, I am also seeing a lot of leaf drop in Ft Myers. And, like Phil said low rainfall is most likely the reason . Ft Myers got .39 inches of rain the whole month of November . We have our sprinkler system going 3x a week but that is not the same. Hopefully, we will get some rain with the...

Anna, my Yellow cobra survived Irma and is looking pretty good! Yea,

Thanks for all your replys! Marie, I found a small Sailor's Delight in the shade house in FM but thanks for the offer! My death tally is still around 50! Crotons really don't like extended salt spray and storm surge. And now the new croton leaves on the canal side have become a "salad bowl"...

Hi everyone! Well it has been over a month since Irma visited Cudjoe. Thank goodness our house survived with minimal damage. We did loose a lot of palms and therefore our canopy. We did have some storm surge into some of the yard and significant salt burn over everything with highest gusts to...

There is a picture of Bob Halgrim's Bob Alonzo in the Sept. 2005 croton newsletter. That particular newsletter featured Bob Halgrim's crotons. Marie's cultivar more closely resembles the picture.

I have both P of N and Finished in the Keys. The yellow on P of N is a mustard color with a maroonish ? Color on the underside. I have not noticed that on my Finished but I will check the next time I go down.

Ana, I have had a tremendous amount of leaf drop in Ft Myers, as well. Shorter days, cooler nights and maybe some spider mites. We did spray. Jeff's crotons, on the east coast and my crotons in the Keys look great! Different climate zones, I guess.

I got my Sibyl Griffen approximately 12 years ago and I think from Jeff. He also had his large leaf one about that time or shortly after. Remember, my crotons get a lot larger in the Keys and the color tends to be pinker. My Sibyl in Ft Myers , an air layer is slightly different, not only in...

Ana and Bert someone told me that coconuts would only grow south of Punta Gorda. Yesterday we had to blink a couple of times. I know that we were in Sarasota some sixty miles north of Fort Myers. At times we felt that we were on the big island. Coconuts, veitchiis, and carpoxylons and worlds of...