Good for you Karyn!! I know you're very happy - as you've wanted that one for a long time! Post a pic when you can! You know we LOVE pics of new babies! :)

Mike

Wow Karyn thats great! You deserve it for sure.

Congratulations, Karyn!

Theresa

Congrats Karyn, and FREE!

Congrats!!!~ Very cool...
Kylie

Congrats Karyn!

Apart from english, I am fluent in spanish as well as portuguese and sometimes my brain plays tricks on me and i mix these up. Well, it just so happens that "culebra" is spanish for "snake"! For a second there i thought you recieved a snake with your order of brugs! lol

Way to go Karyn, It is so nice doing business with someone like that.

It's funny that you mentioned that. Both my older kids speak Spanish quite well and mentioned that when they heard the name. I always wondered why such unusual stuff would come up when I Googled the word. There must be an area of Puerto Rico called Snake Island or something similar. The company is great and always supplies beautiful plants. I would and have often recommended them in the past. It's Zone 9 Tropicals. They have always sent the most wonderful tropical plants and I buy from a number of different vendors. Their plants have always been the best quality.

Karyn

You know i was going to recommend you to buy a 'culebra' from them until i heard you had bought one. Yes, zone9tropicals is a GREAT place to buy. I've only recieved oversized plants from them. I've ordered a jacarands tree and a Chorisa Speciosa from them and they were both over two feet tall and really healthy. They both grew to over seven feet tall by the end of one summer too! I am wanting to buy a Mexican Flame Vine, a Rangoon Creeper and some Brunfelsia from them once i get the chance. And the best part is that i can grow everything they have listed so i don't have to worry about checking the hardiness of the plants!

Bob never had a culebra listed in all the years that I've been buying from him. I happened to ask about the last time I placed an order and he told me that he had a few but they hadn't bloomed. I asked if he would sell one to me and his partner emailed me back that he'd send it along with my other plants. He did end up listing the others he had but I don't know if he has anymore or ot. The Rangoon Creeper I got last year was gorgeous. He has a double variety that I'm thinking about. Mexican Flame roots so easily in water. If you know anyone that has one see if you can get a cutting. I'd say that I'd send you one but mine is under an aphid attack right now.
Karyn

Good to know that the Flame Vine is east to root. I am horrible at rooting cuttings. lol. Still, i am trying my hand at some bougainvillea cuttings and some oleander cuttings that i took from my own plants. The good thing ist that they are still green and healthy, but they don't seem to be rooting, at least not yet. I have a rangoon creeper that i grew from seed, but for some reason it has never gotten over three feet! im not kidding you. lol. It grows, then it stops growing and dries up and does it all over again. I know that it isn't from winter damage that it dries back because it'll do it at any given time of the year even spring. It's still in the ground and it gets the same care and water as a stephanotis floribunda and that one is ENOURMOUS. We'll see what happens. If it doesn't perk up this year, i'll probably dig it out and plant it elsewhere.