Tropical Flowers

Tropical plants are called tropical, because they grow in tropics where it is always warm. However they are frequently grown in “not tropical” conditions, for example, in an apartment. Transportation of plants in the frosty winter is also not tropical conditions. Sudden decrease of temperature almost to zero point (in Florida it also can happen - two nights in a year) or a cold draft on the glazed loggia also are not tropical conditions.

The simplest way to determine when tropical plants feel cold is to look in a mirror at your nose: if it feels cold, the same feel your plants.

Some tropical plants can survive short-term decrease of temperature, others – can not.

Tropical plants are afraid of sharp change of temperature, even for several hours. If the temperature falls gradually they have time “to get used”.