This wild garden tangle has a certain beauty for me. Not so for my gardener, who later trimmed it all away.
For Cee’s Flower of the Day prompt.
Nature’s Collage: Flower of the Day, May 31, 2017
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Hibiscus: Black and White Sunday and Cee’s Flower of the Day, May 28, 2017
The prompt was to publish a photo in both color and black and white. Luckily, I had just, on a whim, tried converting this hibiscus shot to black and white and was shocked to discover that I liked it better devoid of its gorgeous colors. Here is the site if you’d like to play along: https://bopaula.wordpress.com/2017/05/28/black-white-sunday-after-and-before-y1-05/
I’m also using this for Cee’s Flower of the Day challenge.
Flower of the Day: Garden Salad
A few times a year the leaf-cutter ants make a salad table out of my garden, stripping the bougainvillea, especially. Today they were busy outside my walls but so far they’ve left the new little bougainvillea bush alone.
https://ceenphotography.com/2017/05/27/flower-of-the-day-may-28-2017-rhododendron/
Subtropical Garden
Subtropical Garden
Since I live below the tropic of Cancer, the varieties of plants that not only survive but thrive in my garden are manifold. Here are a few of the things that you would find in my garden if you came to visit, as well as the reasons why I love living here:
(Please click on any photo to enlarge all photos.)
For Cee’s garden prompt.
Frangipani: Flower of the day, May 23, 2017
My plumeria tree just keeps on blooming this year. The leaves are lusher than usual as well. I’ll try to enjoy them before the rains come and pick them all!
https://ceenphotography.com/2017/05/22/flower-of-the-day-may-23-2017-bearded-iris/
Red Eye Ivy Leaf Geraniums: Flower of the Day, May 22, 2017
I love these Red Eye Ivy Leaf Geraniums.
https://ceenphotography.com/2017/05/21/flower-of-the-day-may-22-2017-rhododendron/
Sky Blue––Thunbergia Grandiflora: Flower of the Day, May 21, 2017
Just try to convince me that this thunbergia isn’t sky blue! The first photo is of a thunbergia flower on the vine near my studio. The second is a mistake shot I took of the sky seconds later. I was amazed at how the colors matched!
Simple Beauty: Bougainvillea, Flower of the Day, May 19, 2017
Hen and Chicks Blossoms: Cee’s Flower of the Day, May 17, 2017
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These succulent hen and chick blooms seem to be blushing. It is a very hearty and easily transplanted succulent, thus its scientific name “sempervivum,” which means “lives forever.”
Hen and Chicks
If you’re yearning for a flower, do not question picking them,
for their mama is a hen who is forever chicking them!
For Cee’s flower prompt.
Crown of Thorns: Flower of the Day, May 13, 2017
Crown of Thorns: Click on first image to enlarge both, please:
This color would look beautiful in a bouquet with Cee’s grape hyacinths!
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