I love flowers but especially roses :-)

 

Good morning Folks ~ I hope you are starting to see signs of spring happening where you are. Down here in tropical s.e. FL, we are able to garden all year long, so don’t notice a real difference.  Although there are certain trees, etc. that bloom only in the spring and they are beautiful.

It is another perfectly gorgeous day down here and I try to be outside doing things on days like this.

Blooms below are from yesterday and this morning.

This new growth on my Lancepod Tree excited me to no end when I saw it yesterday. It is about 8 ft. tall with a tuft of growth at the top. I just planted this in the ground by the heart patio, to the west of the caravan.  In time this will give some glorious, beautiful shade.

Clock vine.

I bought this orchid below around my birthday (March) last year and it is the Dancing Lady orchid and I am excitedly looking forward to seeing the blooms.  I had this many, many years ago and lost it. There are two flower spikes below, the blooms will be yellow.

Below are the blooms of the ever populating Mom-of-millions.

‘Louis Philippe’ my first rose bought many, many years ago at a local flea market. 

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‘Mr. Lincoln’

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My dear husband bought me this beautiful steel gazing ball many birthdays ago.  I love it.

‘Angel Face’

‘Heirloom’

Huge blooms and wonderful rose scent.

‘Mm. Laurette Messimy’

‘Rose de Rescht’ ~ These blooms are small but packed with petals and scent.

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Well, that’s it for today. I need to get up off my seat and start doing some things for the day, first off being some breakfast.

“Today I have a choice.

To live

to enter into,

to be present in

this life,

or to wait for a life yet to be.”

Let’s choose,

“the gladness--to just be”.

Terry Hershey

M.O.M. Kalanchoe delagoensis

Mother of millions is certainly the right name for this plant. To read all about it visit Mean Little Weed.

They are easy enough to thin out and I’ve done a LOT of that, there are always more cropping up here and there and everywhere. But, it’s the blooms that keep me growing these. I love them.

Here are photos taken earlier this morning.

One little teenie tiny leaflet that falls off the main plant drops to the ground and grows into a mass of babies, which then will grow and drop more leaves creating more plants. These can grow tall, I am 5’ 5 1/2” tall and some of these are a foot or so taller.

These next two photos are at the back of the property by the driveway.

This one is growing at the south end of the workshop.

These are also in the same area.

These are in the fenced caravan/clothesline area. I love how the morning dew is on them.

That’s it from Plum Cottage Gardens. Thank you all again for your wonderful words of love and encouragement at this time, via posts, emails and snail mail. They make me cry, but they also lift me up. Thank you.

FlowerLady Lorraine

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Love leaves a memory no one can steal. 

From a headstone in Ireland

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Come, ye disconsolate, where'er you languish,
Come at the shrine of God fervently kneel;
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish—
Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
Thomas Moore, c.1813, published in Sacred Songs, 1816

Color on a gray morning & playlist is gone for good.

Good morning Friends ~ I went out earlier to get my morning inspiration from the gardens and here are the results.

Click on pictures for a larger view.

I'm near the back of our property, looking south, towards the road out front. On the left you can see, Snake Plants, Basket Plant flowers, Mother-of-millions, and others I can't think of. It's the Basket Plants (Callisia fragrans) I wanted to show as they are blooming all over the property, filling the air with their delicate scent. The bees just love these blossoms.

Here is a portion of our Melaleuca tree that came down in the hurricanes. We have it standing as a sculpture piece in our secret garden and I placed the Basket plants all around the base. These need no dirt to grow, and they send out babies.
Here is the Chrysler Imperial bud opening up a little more.

Blooms of Golden Dewdrop.

Sweet Mm. Laurette Messimy.

Morning glories.

Shovel bird high on his perch over the entryway into our 'junk yard'. The trees in the background are not that close, they are on the other side of the property that borders the back/north side of ours.

Here are Schefllera berries, along with some colorful croton leaves, and a stem from a vanda orchid.

Mom-of-millions blooms. Boy oh boy, this plant definitely makes millions of little ones. A leaf just has to fall to the ground and several will sprout and grow from it.

These next few pictures are of sweet La Marne.

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I noticed this morning that there are now advertisements on my playlist music, saying that if I want it commercial free I'll have to pay $15 a month. NO THANK YOU. Thank you all for enjoying my soothing tunes and your kind comments about them. They were nice while they lasted.

That's it for now. Enjoy your life, whatever you do, wherever you live.

Zone 10 ~ s.e. FL