Gardening is ...

Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction;

natural and instructive,

and as such,

contributes to the most serious contemplation,

experience, health and longevity.

John Evelyn, 1666

Zone 10 ~ s.e. FL

Joy oh joy - Confederate Rose - Hibiscus mutabilis

Good evening fellow bloggers.

This morning I took a picture of my Confederate Rose bloom, and it was white. When I got home from work this evening, it was pink. It is a single variety of Hibiscus mutabilis and I love it. I grew this from seed this spring and I am thrilled, to say the least, with the resulting plant/blooms. My gardens are sub-tropical, zone 10 in s.e. FL.

Sometimes life can get us down, but all we have to do is take a walk in our gardens and we are lifted up.

Here are the three pictures from today. Tomorrow the flower will be a thing of the past, but not forgotten.

Click on pictures for a larger view.

The foundations of the world are to be found,

not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought,

but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.

Alfted North Whitehead

Zone 10 ~ s.e. FL

November whites

Good morning Friends. Hope you are all in good health and having a wonderful first week of November.

I am getting over a cold/flu bug that I've had for almost three weeks. It feels good to be feeling better.

Here are some pictures of lovely white, cream or hint of pink beauties in our gardens.

The first is South African Foxglove.


Prosperity Roses.



Copperleaf shrub.





Confederate Rose ~ my first grown from seed this year. The first bloom didn't open because the ends were glued shut by some kind of 'bugs', and it turned pink and then fell off. I'm wondering if this bloom will also turn pink.



Bougainvillea.



Begonia.

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Precisely the least, the softest, lightest,
a lizard's rustling,
a breath, a flash, a moment -
a little makes the way
of the best happiness.

Frederich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra

Zone 10 ~ s.e. FL

Thank you Blotanical bloggers for Picking my posts

Good morning everyone. Hope you are all doing well.

I am a relative newbie to Blotanical and have fallen behind in blogging etiquette.

I'm still learning my way around this site, but before anymore time goes by,

I want to say a big heartfelt thank you to all of you have picked my blogs for others to read.

I hope to keep up with this from now on and am sorry for the delay.

Sincerely ~

Zone 10 ~ s.e. FL