The tropics do amazing things to plants...they grow so rapidly and fully! Here in the Puerto Rico, we have two seasons, "wet" and "dry." Late spring/early summer marks the beginning of the wet season and the dry season begins sometime in late fall/early winter. We usually cut back our plants early in the wet season, as this is the growing season, and the new growth will be nurtured by our gentle summer rains.
I was reminded this afternoon as I passed by the Mandevilla plants here at the Lemontree of how much they had grown! On the top left is the photo taken in July of the plants after I had cut them back and to the lower right is a photograph I took today. The plants have been trimmed a couple of times since July as well, to keep their long reachi
ng tendrils out of the pathway.You can also see the little ficus tree, the foreground of the photos, was cut back to just its limbs and today it is has new branches and shiny green leaves too. Its amazing what a little water and fertilizer can do for plants in the tropics..
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