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For those of you who would like to read Brenda's obituary and Life Story, please follow the following link. http://www.legacy.com/funeral-homes/indiana/columbia-city/demoney-grimes-funeral-home/fh-19194. It also contains information on her service. Judy and I are leaving today for Indiana...

It is with a heavy heart that I post this thread. We received a call yesterday. We have lost a good friend and a wonderful/kind person. Brenda Shilling passed away yesterday, Nov 13th in Houston, Texas. Jerry and their family were with her. Our hearts and prayers go out to Jerry in this...

Since I have retired, I have decided to learn how (I hope) to put some pictures of my wife's crotons on the forum. Judy has been growing some new seedlings for several years. Some are really starting to look good. I am going to attempt to post a picture of her Orange Crush. Wish me luck.

Last weekend Judy and I went over to Summerland Key to visit Jerry Shilling and his amazing croton collection. I took some pictures of Jerry's plants. If you think Judy's crotons are on some "juice" you have never seen Jerry's. Some are pictures of his own creations with outstanding color and...

Folks, Judy and I consider everyone that we touch in our "Croton Lives" to be our friends. That being said, we don't want to have any requests to be our friend or to befriend you. We don't do facebook, because it annoys the hell out of me to get these damn requests to be friends. I would like...

Many of you know of Nancy Forester's "Secret Garden" in Key West. However there is another secret garden tucked deep into the Lower Keys. And no this is not the garden that I refer to as "Judy's Jungle". I am privileged to help take care of this garden during the summer. The owner of this...

Down in the Keys our Shady Lane is doing some strange things with the leaves. We hope that it continues to do this. I thought that I would post a few pictures of it.

This is a croton that Judy got years ago (10 years) in Ft. Myers. The plant in Ft. Myers died, but the plant in the Keys is doing well. We don't have a clue what this is. Folks what is this?

I threw this out a few years ago and it "stumped the band". Since we have a lot of new blood on the forum, I thought that I would try again. The gentleman holding this leaf brought a few of these back from the Dominican Republic. Judy and I were fortunate to get one to live and it is doing...

We wanted to let everyone know that Judy and my e-mail addres is jglock1@comcast.net. An e-mail had been sent out with the incorrect address. PS Judy has been working me like a dog! We have spread over 600 bags of mulch and 40 gallons of roundup. I can't tell you how many crotons that I...

This croton was purchased on the East Coast at a nursery in Boynton Beach. The name that they gave us for the plant was "Chalupa" which was the name of their dog. This croton's mature leaves are orange and black. It must have a real name. Does anyone have a guess as to what this might be...

These are the remaining two unknown crotons from the DR. The first is a red and black croton. The second Judy and I just call "thin leaf". Give these poor orphans a name.

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