with the hurricane exactly one month ago I thought I'd not be able to do a post for http://maydreamsgardens.blogspot.com/ venerable Blooms Day this month. But while the garden is not awash with blooms a surprising number of plants have put out a few. Like 3 of my aloe maculata, what a rewarding plant, requiring almost no care.
my lovely Diablotin rose. This is one of the first plants I checked to see whether it survived the hurricane. well, what do you expect of the Devil?
dramatic orange sparks from the Mexican honeysuckle. I am eyeing the red one in the garden centre
euphorbia mulli-365 days a year in bloom
soft salmon pink oleander
purple allamanda
Kalanchoe. I actually like the architectural leaves of this particular type even more than the blooms
pillowy puff of tree morning glory
some sort of cassia (I grew from seed from a tree in one of the hotels)
who's been eating my flowers?
this little caterpillar is the exact yellow of the bloom!
19 comments:
Nice pics! I love that tree morning glory and the yellow caterpillar.
Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful flowers this month, Nicole. It was just what this color-starved northern gardener needed! Even your caterpillar was pretty.
Wonderful post, I love your pictures, unfortunatly so does some BAD people too. Look at my latest post...read and weep. What can we do? Someone is copying our work. If you come up with any good answeres please let me know/ LOL Tyra
wonderful collection of blooms -
my ephorbia milli - a house plant in Poland - is now in the flowering break ;)
Many of the blooms look so vibrant! The close up of the aloes look spectacular!
Nicole the caterpillar is the larva of the sulphur butterfly. Their host plant is cassias. Don't worry the cassias can take the licks. The caterpillar will become yellow when feeding on the flowers as a sort of disguise to ward off predators.
What an array of lovely blooms. We have the yellow Kalanchoe in common. I love the Aloe bloom. The caterpillar shot is great too.
Best Wishes
Your garden is doing great. Did you much damage from the hurricane? I like the color on the morning glory
Your blooms are sparkling with colour! It's amzing that the Euphorbia mulli blooms all year around - wow!
/Katarina
The kalanchoe is remarkable and I have never seen a yellow caterpillar!
Beautiful photos! And the caterpillar is fascinating. That it takes on the color of it's host is amazing! Jan
The flowers in your garden are fantastic. Non of which would last 5 minutes here outside. Yes my parcel was a nice treat and i cant believe what survives in the post. Just hope i can keep them alive.x
The blooms in your blog are beautiful. In the suburban area where I live the various districts are named after flowers. I'm in the district named after the Cassia flower.
Cheers
Paterika
You've got to love the tropics! Great blooms!
That cassia is a super color!
That is just wonderful! It is encouraging to look at beautiful tropical flowers when it is cold and dull over here. Thank you.
My cassia is about 8" tall, Nicole - guess I'll have to wait awhile to get that beautiful flower and intriguing caterpillar. In this GardenWeb thread there's a link to a similar very yellow caterpillar, identified as the larva of a Cloudless Sulpher butterfly.
Happy GBBD, a little late. Yours was lovely!
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
Thanks, Pam, the yellow caterpillar IS so cute
My pleasure, Nan. And your blog is always such a visual treat.
Thanks, Ewa, I went and bought another ephorbia milli this week. There were 3 nice types but I could have only afforded one. They are quite expensive plants
Kanak, I can’t tell you how happy I am I accepted those aloe plants two years ago.
Thanks, islandgal246 I will try to grow another cassia for the caterpillars. Sometimes the garden literally erupts in sulfur butterflies!
Thanks, Green thumb , I really enjoyed your blooms
Rusty, thankfully the hurricane came from the west and the most delicate part of the garden is on the east of the house. I was very luckt, I lost only a few plants and we had zero damge otherwise..
Thanks, Katarina
chuck –that kalanchoe is another one of my favourite purchases, as after each bloom it multiplies and I get to share with friends.
thanks, Tina, Thanks For 2 Day, PATERIKA and good luck with your plants, Emma
Layanee, Matron, believe me, I spent the first twenty five years of my life never knowing that winter meant death for plants.
Annie-what kind of cassia do you have? I bought some seeds of javanica and others online but the plants died soon after germination. Thanks for the link.
Nicole, thank you so much for coming by my blog and posting your prayers for Mumbai and India. I really appreciate it. Lord knows we can definitely use it!
- Sunita
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