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Abutilons

Hi Liz and all.....Liz, I always read your letters with pleasure and
after looking at yours pics, don't believe you have room for even one
more plant!!  

I too, love Aubitilons.  So graceful.  I just now pruned 4 A. Thompsonii
to take in for the winter.  I'll keep one and give three lucky friends
one each.  I train them as standards.  Is that what you do for most
also?  (i.e. one tall stem, then allowing them to branch out)  I had a
"A. megapotamicum" last year in a basket, but lost it over the winter. 
The veriegated leaves took my fancy, so I'll have to replace it this
year.  I haven't come across A. Insigne yet, but if I do, I'll be sure
to tell you.  My next purchase will be an A. Linda Vista Peach. 
Beautiful peachy color.

A new plant you might be interested in is a Codiaeum (croton).  It's
called C. Victoria Gold Bell.  It has a little hanging bell at the end
of each long veriegated leaf.  I don't know how it's going to make out
this winter, but it sure is pretty now.  

I LOVE your plan for a greenhouse!!!  Just my kind!!  But I can't afford
that one either, so I think I'll settle for a lean to type to be put in
this fall.  

Nice talking to you.......
Bobbi in sunny but cool Ct., USA........and in case anybody followed my
dissertation this spring about my plumeria......nope, no blooms this
year either......beautiful plants tho'......next year I'm going to place
them on white marble bases to try to increase the intensity of our sun. 
Boy, I hate to have to wait another whole year!!!!!
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