Ken Ny. Welcome to south Fla. DON'T cover anything with plastic!!!! Always use sheets or light blankets. Plastic transfers the cold to the leaves,it doesnt protect them! It will cause more damage. Always you sheets or light blankets, IF you feel you need to protect something to big to move, or that is in the ground. And then you just have to cover the top of the plant. You can wrap them totally for a day or two, but it is a lot of work, and the cold usually only hurts the tops of plants. You dont have to 'rest' your plants. Let them do what they do during our 'winter'. Maybe lighten up on the water a bit,and dont fertilizer anything, that's a bout it. We have 2 seasons here in south Fla., 'Pre summer' and Summer :) I am in Ft.Laud. I grow all the things you have mentioned. All are outside, my frangipani is a huge tree in the ground. By now yours is probably covered with 'rust' on the underside of the leaves...right? And dropping all its leaves...right? They all do it. It isn't worth spraying to try and keep the leaves on it. That tree DOES goes dormant, and then one day in 'spring' you will get a flower stem, if it is big/old enough to bloom, or you'll get new leaves, and that will tell you it is spring! and time to water and feed again. You dont have to much more than that to them. If you get a freeze warning and it is small enough, you can bring it inside, or move it close to the house, under your patio. Thats all you need to do, and that is optional. It can handle very low 40's high 30's for a few nights. The Stapelias, will put up with the low 40's, if you have only a few, you can throw a sheet over them also if we get a freeze warning, or bring them inside. I dont have a huge collection of Stapelias anymore, but my collection is to big to bring in for 1-2 days of low 40's, high 30's, so I throw a sheet on them, and they do just fine. My Euphorbias are all the Thai Giant Crown of Thorns and in the ground,so I cant bring them in either. But they are VERY tough plants, but if yours are the very watery/fleshy type and you can bring them in on a cold night, do it. Or cover them, it is only a few hours of cold that you need to protect them from. The sheet or light blanket keeps the cold off the plants, and you should see my yard, and others around me, when we get a freeze warning, their are sheets all over sensitive plants, people tying to protect them from freeze burn. It is a sight to see. You'll find that you can leave your plants outside 99.9% of the time. And only a few certain plant go 'dormant'. The rest just slow down growing, and all you do is lighten up on the water, fertilizer, and just wait for our spring. My adeniums are in bloom right now. They grow and bloom in the winter. If yuo can call our winter a real winter. We get like 4 days of real cold weather in January. Thats about it. Ejoy your new seasons:)

Hi I have been using sand from Wally's called "play sand" while at HD this same type is called "builders sand" lol recently found a colored variety in bright purple or green lol. Was curious what the heck would be used to dye it?? can't imagine what could be used to be permanent?? have also been using a type of crushed black lava rock . Differs from the "landscape" type being about 1/8 in diameter. There is also a red variety but is very difficult to find in small sizes. Another interesting one is called "flourite" supposedly this contains iron . manufactured for use in planted aquariums. It is very stable , and 2/4 MM in size but is expensive. I had it left over when converting a large aquarium to a terrarium. Have used it straight for som epi orchids as well as mixed with other materials for succulents. So far my reaction has been big deal lol. i'm glad I didn't spend money on it for that purpose lol. Oh well isn't experimenting the great part about growing plants?? gary

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Well, it's too bad she's not ready to move on things yet. Even without fori's amazing range. BTW, did you know those sell for 6 to 8K at the specialty shops on this coast, fori? You could have a second career. In just one day I was able to dig up these--wouldn't they make a darling kitchen? You'd have to have a larger companion or two made to the side piece, but how Florida these colors are. Range (considering electric as well as gas, since gas availability varies in those neighborhoods--not worth it if she has to foot the bill to run service, and unfortunately a lot of the area is the kind of neighborhood where people would steal propane). I just lost my heart to the color scheme here, although we could have something else redone in the same buttercream+sea green, I suppose: Hoosier with side (original paint). Small, but with a repro side or two, could work: Reproduction cast iron sink. There are lots of old ones, but there was a problem with getting iron reporcelained recently, so this would be the fallback if we can't find a real one in good condition or a steel one that can be redone. Would love an old one in buttercream yellow, though. Not bad for less than a day's worth of looking around, and the total cost of everything including modern fridge and re-enameling a vintage table to match would be under 5K, even with repairs and shipping.