I bought this plant 8 or 9 years ago from an online nursery. I would much rather deal with a neighboring business, but when I ordered it, it was a tough one to find.
It took some years to get it to this form, due to Hurricane Laura and then my life long companion passing. It stayed buried under 2 large pine trees that fell on my shade house and stayed for a couple years in a 30 gallon container at the mercy of the occasional rain that kept it alive for some reason till I got through fixing other things for 14 months no days off at 67 years of age.
I had a good idea this was a very special specimen plant and after so many years it has proven itself. It is planted on a Phoenix Sylvestris stump and loves it. However, I believe it may become a monster, too big for this small space in a couple years, so give it some room, maybe 8' x 8' with room to mow around.
I had a beautiful place here after working on it for 45 years. In 6 hours of 150 mph winds it was a mighty humbling sight.. It looked like a war zone. My cattle had no fence to speak of. The only reason they stayed is because they had good pasture. They were scared to death. I couldn’t get close to them for weeks.
People say what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. This is where I've been for so long.
This cousin to the Ginger Family is about 5' high and I believe it will be close to 7’ next season. I have seen the Kahili, yellow version growing in the rain forests of the Hawaiian Islands and have grown it here but lost it because I planted it in a spot that got too dry, which gingers cant tolerate.
I started collecting tropical plants about fifteen years ago, for the simple reason that storms and hard freezes don’t stop them from returning to full form next summer, except for the palms.
I lost about 50 really nice palms that I knew would freeze during a 50 year freeze cycle. But I have the images of when they were pretty, to show later. It was worth the effort, a learning experience.. I have a greater knowledge base now.
I am hopeful to be a part of something unimaginable soon. I have always wanted to see the deserts green.I would like to stop here, and add to the subject, but not change it, if you will bare with me please,,,
imagine flying across an ocean all day and then seeing land, a drastic change, and an air strip to land the plane. It’s kind of crazy but it works.
It’s like where the day meets the night, an oddity if you think about it, but these oddities work out just fine.
So when you get off the plane sometimes, you can’t understand a word they say, but that’s cool, it’s expected.
Now you are what is called " READ IN " see. There's nothing to it.
So, now then,,, this is the thing see,,,
Spooky action at a distance/non locality can no longer be denied. We must learn to speak the language of the new age arriving. It is an entanglement.
A story of one subject can no longer be a story of one subject.
Look around and you will find an image of my home during the night, banana leave shadows on the house, the new culms of weavers bamboo, the Hedychium Tara is in the frame with insufficient light to be seen by the phone camera's eye, the stars, and a dozen other things.
Up in the night sky, the average Star has at least 4 planets, half of which are populated.
We must learn to speak of what we don't understand, much of which is already here with very few takers, and the Mother Load which is arriving. Many of us will not be ready.
Myself along with many like minded individuals and numerous Governments are talking about it. If we can release zero point energy and life extension, we will live long enough to do these things throughout the stars.
Yep you heard right. We all must go back to school.There will be some on the job training. We will need thousands of Pilots, millions of support personnel, just to begin.
It has already been announced that Elon Musk is building thousands of Spaceships. But they will not be those silly things powered by rocket fuel my friend. Star trek was published as fiction, but it was not.
The educational system we now know will soon be non existent. Your college degree will help, but in the world that's coming, learning never ends.
The stars will be your classroom.
