Tropicalness at home

We spent last week on a cruise, but I don't feel like posting about that now. Instead here are some pictures from the walk Jason just dragged me on (and I'm glad he did). It was peaceful, relaxing, and even cool at the Norfolk Botanical Garden. I just checked the weather, and, um, 80 degrees with low humidity and some shade is cool here.

 we hope these grow in Billings ^

Propagating

While looking up whether impatiens are annuals or perennials, I discovered that you can cut off pieces of the plant, put them in water, and they'll grow roots and make new plants. Of course I had to try it... And after about 7-10 days of thinking they're going to die at any moment, the cuttings are all getting a decent little root system started. Maybe in another week I can plant them and have new little impatiens, which grow like crazy here.