Earth Day ~ blooms from my gardens in April

Good afternoon Friends ~ This is a good day, being Earth Day, to write up a post. Have quite a few photos to share as I’ve not posted in awhile.

Thank you all for bday wishes, get well wishes and wishes for rain. We have gotten some much needed rain in the past week or so. Rains letting me know gutters have clogs that need attending too. The rain is so good for everything and saves me spending $ on my water bill to water gardens and potted plants. We had rain last night, this morning and it looks like we could get more. The sky is gray and there’s a stiff breeze from the west.

Right now I’m enjoying a cup of green tea and ginger tea combined, sweetened with honey. The scent of gardenias is right here in my little space and smells heavenly. That scent is one of my earliest memories from Florida. My grandmother had a big bush that would be filled with the blooms, it was intoxicating.

Pink hibiscus

Pink begonia

This begonia is scented and just wonderful.

Spiderworts, which some consider a weed, but not this gardener and it is one of my favorite flowers.

This beauty is tibouchina. First one a fresh bloom in the shade, second photo an older bloom in the sunlight.

This is a vanda orchid, ‘Miss Joacuim’. This grows like a weed, spreads nicely. I can break off bits with some roots hanging off and just plop them anywhere. Another favorite.

Blue Salvia with Tahitian Gardenia in the background

Salvia coccinea greggii spreads by self-seeding another favorite

This orchid bloom was a pleasant surprise the other morning. It is attached to the stem of the Tahitian Gardenia.

Tahitian Gardenia ~ These are absolutely wonderful!!! Huge scented blooms.

Bougainvillea from friends Nanci & John

This is Confederate Jasmine ~ blooms once a year. I have three of these vines and look forward to their scent filling the air every spring.

This is an orchid I bought at a yard sale soon after my dear husband went to be with his Creator. It is called Dancing Ladies or Butterfly orchids.

This lovely orchid was given to me by friends/customers from my time of working at an antique shop for 17 years.

An unknown ~ another surprise the other day. I forget about them when they aren’t in bloom.

These tiny orchids are ‘Reed Orchids’ another orchid that grows like a weed with little care from me.

I don’t know what the plant is in the next two photos, two different colors.

This is a ‘Tropical Hydrangea’.

‘Miss Atwood’

Something snacked on this while it was a bud. The holes are interesting.

‘Mozart’

A sweet little carpet rose.

‘International Herald Tribune’ rose a real sweetie.

‘Miss Ruth’s Wavy’ rose

Hibiscus

Two views of the same shell.

1st year anniversary gift I created for young friends.

That’s it for now.

Be well, count your blessings, love God and love others.

FlowerLady

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In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass,

the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind,

whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

And the earth brought forth grass,

and herb yielding seed after his kind,

and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind:

and God saw that it was good.

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