A Garden Walk with my Mother on her Birthday: FOTD Nov 16, 2019

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Two of my favorite people share today as a birthday. One is Forgottenman, who has, I hope, already received his photo tributes via Jibjab, but now I’m thinking about my Mother, who would have been 110 today if she had lived.

Recently I read a letter where she mentioned how when I was a baby I used to pick the heads off flowers and bring them to her. Misguided then, as I still am now in some matters, I have nonetheless learned to leave the flowers where they grow. I took a little walk in my garden today, Mother, imagining you were here with me, seeking out the flowers that are less profuse now than they were a few months ago.

Winter comes to Mexico as well, and although it cuts a less-wide swath, our cold snap seems to have inhibited the hibiscus and even the poinsettias, that should be fully in bloom by now. This is what you would have seen if you had been able to take my walk with me. If you click on the first photo, all of the photos will enlarge and you can go through them as a slide series and also read their captions:

 

 

This little begonia is easily overlooked.
Berries on the heavenly bamboo will need to substitute for holly.
This orange thunbergia is beautifully invasive.
The lipstick plant seems to bloom year round but is hard to photograph.
All of my jade plants are flowering, many of the blooms gone to seed.
This is the only hibiscus presently blooming, other than the large bush next to the wall, where most of the blooms are growing on the side that droops over my neighbor’s wall.
These thunbergia are on of the hardest flowers to photograph. I don’t know why.
I almost missed these papaya blooms. In another month I hope to be eating the fruit beneath them.

 

 

For Cee’s Flower of the Day prompt.

17 thoughts on “A Garden Walk with my Mother on her Birthday: FOTD Nov 16, 2019”

  5. slmret

    I always love photos of your garden, with its Mexican colors and tropical plants! Especially wonderful — the light colored hibiscus and the bird-of-paradise lily! I didn’t realize that the papaya flower is so dainty! Happy b’day to forgottenman — and to your late mom!

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