Wow it almost looks jungle like, I really like this conglomeration of color and vines with old owl peeping over the huge flower~! Busy but beautiful like you often see when you look up at the canopy in the jungle~!
Bob always said I wasn’t happy unless something was slapping you in the face as you walked through the plants at the entry to our house. It’s still that way. I like jungles.
I agree with you, Now that spider that builds her web across my gate each evening while I always forget it is there, until my face hits it in the morning, is another thing.
Our home in Houston backed up to Beautiful Buffalo Bayou and we had what looked like a jungle between the house and the bayou. I had a lot of bromeliads and Orchids there, with frangipani plants and night blooming cereus in the sunny parts.. Our front yard was planted with a couple of large plum trees under the live oaks, I loved the Azaleas and Camellias, which I do miss the most out here with the heavy limey soil. But this is why I stick to plants that love this area, though I do have what they call juniper groves that are so thick I only have narrow paths going through them,,,, This is where I like to sit and listen to the birds, and water falling. I just brought the heavy frangipani, kumquat, lemon, and bromeliads in due to the possibility of a freeze..
Out here I am getting a bit old to handle those heavy pots and Mexican yard help is almost non existent, what few there are now work in construction, and Trump ran many out. But I have been having fun building those inside window boxes and planting succulents in them to have inside color in the cold months.
I still need to post pictures of our Houston home. It was a quiet woodsy part of town (Westheimer) where you could forget that that you actually lived in the city. The subdivision had been a large beautiful Boy Scout Camp until the city grew up around it and they sold with enough profit to buy a huge site farther from town.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Wow it almost looks jungle like, I really like this conglomeration of color and vines with old owl peeping over the huge flower~! Busy but beautiful like you often see when you look up at the canopy in the jungle~!
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Bob always said I wasn’t happy unless something was slapping you in the face as you walked through the plants at the entry to our house. It’s still that way. I like jungles.
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I agree with you, Now that spider that builds her web across my gate each evening while I always forget it is there, until my face hits it in the morning, is another thing.
Our home in Houston backed up to Beautiful Buffalo Bayou and we had what looked like a jungle between the house and the bayou. I had a lot of bromeliads and Orchids there, with frangipani plants and night blooming cereus in the sunny parts.. Our front yard was planted with a couple of large plum trees under the live oaks, I loved the Azaleas and Camellias, which I do miss the most out here with the heavy limey soil. But this is why I stick to plants that love this area, though I do have what they call juniper groves that are so thick I only have narrow paths going through them,,,, This is where I like to sit and listen to the birds, and water falling. I just brought the heavy frangipani, kumquat, lemon, and bromeliads in due to the possibility of a freeze..
Out here I am getting a bit old to handle those heavy pots and Mexican yard help is almost non existent, what few there are now work in construction, and Trump ran many out. But I have been having fun building those inside window boxes and planting succulents in them to have inside color in the cold months.
I still need to post pictures of our Houston home. It was a quiet woodsy part of town (Westheimer) where you could forget that that you actually lived in the city. The subdivision had been a large beautiful Boy Scout Camp until the city grew up around it and they sold with enough profit to buy a huge site farther from town.
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I’d love to see photos.
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