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**Hint: This is a leafy bush with nondescript flowers which it makes up for with its vibrantly colored leaves. It has done well in a semi-sunny and a full sun location, but it is not very tolerant of drought.
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**Hint: This plant flowers in April or May as you may see in the photograph to the left. It is tolerant of being planted in a sunny or semi-shady situation and it is tough when it comes to drought.
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Hint: This is a lovely easy to grow plant in the ginger family. In the Caribbean it will grow well in a semi shady area or in one that is in full sun and it will tolerate some time without rainfall. It has bright red knobby sorts of flowers, almost like tight small pinecones.
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Mystery Ginger

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Hint: The small plant below is a young fast growing tall leafy bush which when mature has very appealing large droopy flowers. The leaves have a purple hue above and a full purple on the underside. It is growing well in our Caribbean garden in a semi shady area. It does love moisture and does not appear to be drought tolerant.
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Hint: This is a leafy tall growing slender bush. It does not appear to flower, but does serve as a decorative green and white background or filler plant.
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Hint: This fern we have dubbed, tattoo fern (see the "F" Page FERNS for more photographs), but surely that can't be right.

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Hint: This is some sort of jasmine bush with small white flowers that smell like heaven. Its leaves seem much like those of a boxwood. We were told by a Montserratian here on the island that it is called a Maria bush, but that seems unlikely unless it is only a local name.

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Hint: On the left is a photograph of this plant taken in December in our below deck garden where at that time of year it is in a bright, but shady area. On the right is the same plant still flowering in late May when it is now in full sun almost all day. Its leaves have taken on a bronze coloring and the entire plant is thriving.

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Hint: This is some sort of cactus/succulent plant which when growing in a climate with adequate water and lots of fertilizer will flower and will be extremely attractive. It has EXTREMELY long and piercing spines which makes the plant difficut to transplant.

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Hint: This cactus has the appearance of having the usual cactus spines, but it doesn't. One local fellow in Montserrat told us its leaves were once used to "scrub up." Ours has grown to more than five feet in about as many years. Along the way it has given us lots of babies.

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Hint: This is a flowering bush. The leaves are about four inches across to give you a sense of its size. It is a tough bush growing with little care.

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Hint: In Mexico we knew this flowering bulb as "Sangre de Cristo." The flowers have a heady scent and the plant seems like it would be happiest in a swampy area although it does grow under very difficult situations, often by the dry roadside here in Montserrat.

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Mystery Palms

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Mystery Trees

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Locally known as the Plum Rose Tree and the picture below is of the fruit

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Mystery Mushrooms

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