Re: aviary/now Gunnera

Yup, Jim, as I understand it - this is why they do well in the PNW
and N California coastal areas - it's more like home to them.  

For huge leaves, you can grow Alocasia and Colocasia in the ground,
I'm sure as some can make it in Raleigh, NC.

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
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> From: Island Jim <jsinger@igc.org>
> hot, humid nights. is that it, marge? if it is they would never
survive 
> here. great looking plant, though. kinda wished it liked southwest 
> florida--but then, if it did, everyone in these parts would have
one or 
> three. and it would probably turn out to be invasive and, well,
there go 
> the everglades [again, again].

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