More blooms, etc.

While most of your gardens are being put to sleep, ours are just waking up from a long summer nap. This is when our gardens do their best, from now til the start of next summer. We'll see what kind of winter we have this coming year, as last year we had many 'cold' days, and lots of gardeners, myself included lost some of our plants.

I am trying to go with the flow with what will do well down here. One group of flowers that does well are the periwinkles. They are so easy, self-seeding and drought tolerant.
















Cassia is a fall bloomer that the Sulphur Butterflies love.







Caught this critter yesterday, we don't see as many as we used to since we lost a lot of our pine trees due to hurricanes and a beetle that killed many around the state.







This is a ground cover, which grows like crazy.




Dwarf White Orchid tree grown from seed, sweetly scented flowers.




The morning sun hitting this wall made me grab the camera.





Here is a closer view of this painting.




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Where flowers bloom so does hope.

Lady Bird Johnson

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Zone 10 ~ s.e. FL

Sunday's Blooms

It is another beautiful Sunday morning.
I went out with the camera to take
pictures of what was blooming,
and here they are.

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This is Pink Pet

Morning glories

Same mgs. but enlarged picture.

Mm. Laurette Messimy

Louis Phillipe

Flame Vine

Ducher

Crepuscule

Cottage Rose

Cassia ~ not sure which one

Bougainvillea

Another Bougainvillea next two photos

This bougainvillea is white with pink and green shading.

This is Cat's Whiskers

This one is for fun. Her name is Tork.
I was trying to take a picture of some flowers
and she got right in my face,
as you can see. : -)

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Everything that slows us down and forces patience,
everything that sets us back
into the slow circles of nature,
is a help.
Gardening is an instrument of grace.
May Sarton

Sulphur cats and butterflies

Sulphur butterflies are really fast, flitting around here and there and everywhere, hardly stopping at all. They are very hard to get pictures of but I've gotten a few. Recently I even got one in it's chrysalis and right after it emerged.

This is a picture of the caterpillar. It is munching away on my cassia shrub.

Below are two pictures of the butterfly getting ready to emerge.
You can see the chrysalis starting to split at the top.

Here it is fresh out. I missed seeing it emerge, dang it.

This is a close-up of the critter.

The cassia shrub is a host plant. The females lay their eggs here.

The flowers bloom in the fall.

Hope you enjoyed this little group of pictures.

FlowerLady


"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly.

"One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
Hans Christian Andersen