For Cee’s FOTD
Put purdy pitcher hear.
Although I know the name of this flower, I can’t for the life of me remember it and the plant identifier refuses to name it, too. Someone help. A friend with a sense of humor set this up for me because he knew I’ve been crazy busy and didn’t have time to post it. The title and instructions are his!!! The flowers, however, whatever they are called, are my addition.
(They may be copa de oros (as not all copa de oros are gold, in spite of their name.) But, I’ve never noticed that little white flower like the center of a bougainvillea in the center of a copa de oro.)
For Cee’s FOTD
For Cee’s FOTD
A few days ago, I showed a photo of a hibiscus and was unsure of whether it was getting ready to bud out or had already done so and the petals had fallen. Cee is pretty sure the second is true but Sam (Seen here as “Anonymous.” We know not why) was curious about size and wanted to have more info. If you want to see the original blog that raised all this activity, go HERE, and you can also see Sam’s query and my answer to him. All of this led me to go out and take the pictures above. After that, I saw Cee’s comment which seemed to bring an end to the mystery. You can see her comment on the link as well. I’ll try to remember to go out and take a photo after this hibiscus’s petals have fallen. Then we can turn our minds to further mysteries.
A bit of interesting trivia: Chinese Hibiscus is sometimes referred to as the ‘Shoeblack Plant’, or simply ‘Shoe Flower’. This is because its petals can double up as shoe polish! By rubbing the flower petals on leather shoes, you can bring out the shine and color in the material to breathe new life into your shoes in a completely natural way!
I can’t decide whether this was a flower whose petals had fallen or one that hadn’t yet budded out. I meant to keep checking it, but life intervened and I forgot to. What do you think?
For Cee’s FOTD
I found this photo from the past when I was looking for photos for my “Running Away” post just posted. It’s not of my lower garden as it was taken near the pool, but I love this shot so decided to share it for Cee’s Flower of the Day as there are a few flowers in it. This sculpture was actually a fountain. The water fell from the shell in her hands down into the pool. Unfortunately, a worker knocked it off into the pool and it broke into too many pieces to be fixable. I gave its original artist money in advance to make me another, but never heard from him again. Sad, as it was one of my favorite sculptures.
See Cee’s beautiful Water Lily HERE.
For Cee’s FOTD
Not sure whether this hibiscus is opening or closed for good, but looks like a few new generations are ready to spring up.
See Cee’s gorgeous peony HERE.
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