Variegated Monster..

Beautiful Stan. I remember it well from my florist days, Monstera deliciosa I believe but I've never seen a variegated form. In an exam you got extra points for correct spelling. Good times!

I always did like gold stars. Made my day!

Stan,

It looks great! The vareigated Monstera deliciosa is not so easy to grow. If it gets too much sun it will burn.

My large Monstera deliciosa in my back yard is flowering like crazy right now. It's setting so many fruit. I think it's the extremely hot weather that causing it to bloom so well.

I haven't seen much movement on mine..shade and 70-75f everyday. No complaints...its late NEXT week Andy we hit the low 60's. Then,I complain.
Soon the mid Dec- mid Jan threat to my 10a garden. Past that,I'm good for the rest of the year. Mostly,the last week in December is that one week to zap my plants if its going to happen.

Yes, that's what I always used to say up there. The last couple weeks of December and the first couple weeks of January are usually the coolest of the year there.

That's the way it is here. Its even gotten to be a smaller window of frost since you moved Andy. Nights year around range from 1-8f warmer then historic averages almost every night. We go on long steaks where the lows are running 5-8f above average. Most people just go by high temps..but its changed more in the low temps.

I think just about anything that's not..coconut or breadruit,Lipstick palms,can be grown here..with some needing cover,and accepting that it will be much slower and smaller then in warn-hot climates. Yet,they grow and look nice in the Earth and under the Sunlight.
If you know the right spot. Part of the fun is learning.

I've noticed that the temps the last many years have been much milder in the SF Bay Area. 5 - 8 degrees f. higher at night is extremely significant...even just a few degrees higher at night makes a drastic difference.

The trees you listed are on the list of don't grow here, also. The coconuts are borderline in some areas, though. I'm seeing more and more bottle palms growing here. That's another palm that's always been described as only growing in the mildest parts of San Diego only (many people in the Los Angeles and Orange Counties can't typically grow them). It may however be changing for those counties with the exceptionally warm winters we have had over the last 6 - 10 years. The older generation of people living here (that I've talked to) has said San Diego is getting much warmer on average!

It used to be they would say "Its always 65f in San Diego"..heard that over and over. Now,"Its Always 65f in the bay area and Always 75-85f in San Diego!"

65f is the morning lows. lol! The saying is: "It's always in the 70's in San Diego like perpetual spring" and that's only for downtown...because inland is so much hotter!

Tonight we're finally getting some rain. I'm so happy! :>)