Picture this-an eight foot agave

My entry for the Picture This: A Photo Contest

at Gardening Gone Wild

My agaves-I believe sisalina, as native as can be here as I plucked them out of the undeveloped scrub. Well if I lived in Trinidad more I could show heliconias and brilliant vermilion chaconia and a hundred other spectacular native plants but on this desert island this is about it. Also shown with a native cacti-name unknown, and yes, it was also plucked from the scrub and is indigenous to the drier islands of the Eastern Caribbean. The fuchsia bloom of course is bougainvillea.





The above agave's sibling which bloomed last year, putting on quite a show while providing nectar for birds.

Carib Reservation Dominica

Eight Kalinago villages are located in Dominica's Carib Territory, a 3700-acre reservation ruled by an elected chief.

A refreshing waterfall


Atlantic coast


Men's house. Dances are performed on the stage inside


Traditional canoe


Check out the view from the cassava bakery!


This is what they use to bake the cassava on



Traditional crafts



Those red bananas are so sweet and perfumed when ripe

Blooms day Dominica

For this Blooms Day I am working on the nature isle of Dominica, where exquisite flowers grow as weeds on the roadsides:

What is it?

I first saw a pale pink, single version of this flower in a roadside garden in Laung Prabang, Laos, and fell in love with it there. I saw this one in St Kitts, though I still can't identify it. It seems possible it may be a a member of the cotton/hibiscus family. Got some seeds from this plant so keeping fingers crossed they will germinate.