Yeah those plants won;t make it here past about the end of April. They are used strictly as 'early' annuals here. We have lost almost all of our dogwoods. We have a single one left on our property out of about 15 we used to have....the next to last fell over dead last week. Their range used to end in extreme South Georgia but we got away with them for many years here in North Central Florida even though they were really not well suited for here, but the global climate change brought some sort of blight and almost all of the trees that used to be coming out and blooming here about now have died universally.
I have NO DOUBT that within 10 years it will be possible to grow heliconias, Alpinia purpurata, more cold sensitive palms, plumeria and all sorts of stuff here. There are already some Silver Bismarck palms growing really well around town in select locations, some Foxtail palms (surprise) and Christmas palms (another surprise) that used to just keel over here.
