Red Hot Hibiscus
El Capitolio - double blooom with white striping
Red bloom with yellow striping
Traditional Presidential
For the Bees and Butterflies
Tropical Milkweed is a favorite of the Monarch Butterfly,
and an important larvae host plant.
Red Porterweed (also comes in Blue)
Little fluffy Chenille plant is finally ready to leave the nursery!
Dwarf Powderpuff Bush
Bromelaids
This one is showing some beautiful color!
This one just recently turned red - only the tips were red previously.
See how green it was?
I especially love the variegation in these.
I don't know the various names.
I'm hoping Steve from The Rainforest Gardener can give me a hand.
Tropical Reds
Caladium Cluster -
proudly stands alone while all my other Caladiums inter-mingle with other plants.
Heliconia Lady Di - first bloom!! Love it!!
Crown of Thorns
Red hot? Let's cool off...
Purple berries of the American Beauty Berry are stunning!
Light Lavender shades of Liriope
Volunteer blooms of the Portulaca groundcover
The purple Pentas are a butterfly magnet! (as are the red ones!)
The pretty bluish purple bloom of the aquatic Pickerel Weed... another butterfly button!
Just a few Shy Pinks...
The Dwarf Pink Ruellia is pretty with it's fuschia "tongue".
Cheerful Tillandsia
Yellow is probably my favorite garden color!
Yellow Allamanda
Yellow Ixora looks like a bridal bouquet!
Happy little Zinnias grow throughout my garden!
I love this Yellow/Red Hibiscus so much, I have two bushes!
One Lonely White Bloom!
The Duck Potato looks more like a dancing angel, to me!
Another aquatic plant, the Duck Potato (surprise) is a popular
food source for DUCKS and other aquatic creatures.
I keep this plant and the Pickerel Weed in muck filled pots...they thrive!
There's FRUIT, too!
My MANGO tree produced its first harvest this month!
Thanks to my friend Deborah at The Consumate Gardener for helping
me ID this yummy variety!
Non-fibrous and juicy! YUMMY!!
The Brown Turkey Figs look like they'll be ripe soon too!
And for Good Measure...
I couldn't resist this little guy napping in the crown of a young ponytail palm!
24 comments:
Good gracious, another gardener that knows all the correct names of their plants. Feeling more garden-inadequate by the minute. beautiful pictures, thanks, Gina
That El Capitolio hibiscus gets me everytime. I enjoyed your presentation by color. I like yellow flowers too. They just look so happy.
Love all the blooms - the hibiscus and especially the El Capitolio are my favorites. I had not seen one with a white stripe. Very nice.
The frog is SO cute! I love that tropical milkweed. It is currently my favorite plant. Next week it will be something different no doubt. Your reds rock! Yup, they are the hottest color of the month. P.S. Yellow is my favorite color in the garden too.
Kimberly girl it always amazes me to see such exotic plants from your garden ! I think I would be overwhelmed by them they are so beautiful .. not that we don't have beautiful up north .. but I think you know what I mean ? so different!
I am crazy about that powder puff ! How cool is the structure of that flower ! Zinnias are such happy little flowers no matter the colour but the yellow is sweet ..and fruit! .. you have everything covered girl !
Joy : )
P.S. Kimberly girl I joined the blog hop and I am totally impressed that i didn't screw it up ! LOL
Joy wink wink
yummy, yummy I love the El Capitolio I have never seen that one..
everything looks beautiful..
Is that my frog ..lol
hugs from Savannah, Cherry
Kimberly: Love your color of the month! Red surely is a proper color scheme for this hot August of Florida.
That El Capitolio is just so gorgeous! Your lady Di and the bromeliads are also very beautiful!
Gorgeous reds!
All the reds are gorgeous a pleasure to see in the garden. The Chenille plant is adorable (for me from afar) It has taken so much over the "creepy" little thing looks so innocent and soft and whoosh it is off! I had a lot of work to get rid of most of it, it still has some little claws in my soil. I love particularly the soft yellow of the zinnia or the Ixora, I grow a Tecoma in this colour.
You have a lovely greenie sitting in the ponytail. If you want more white flowers at the sam time the reds are blooming, the white flowered Penta looks splendid together with the tropical reds. Once you have a bush it is also easy to propagate from cuttings.
I have just put your blog on my new one. Thanks for your message. Kimberly enjoy a nice week. Nearly forgot the fruit look delicious.
Loved that tour! The el capitolia hibiscus is one I used to have there, and have not seen it since. How lovely! I too cannot choose just one favorite though!
Hi Kimberley,
Fabulous plants all of them. I must admit that white isn't a favourite colour of mine either. It must be great to be able to grow such a diverse range in a a garden, especially keeping Hibiscus ( the non hardy types in this country). As for the tropical milkweed......love it and want one!
Hi Kimberly,
Your last shot is priceless! What an array of beauties you have growing still and these are just your favorites! Your mango looks delicious!! Lucky you figs too. ;>)
Oh, I love that green tree frog! They always tug at my heart. I'm not a huge fan of white either, though I couldn't live without my peace lilies. Your hibiscus are beautiful! I just bought some a few weeks ago for my nephew's garden, as I have now run out of room in mine. Well, he is only 22, a bachelor, and could care less about a garden, but he is letting me play on his quarter-acre. : )
Love the pickerel weed idea. I'd never thought of putting that in the garden. I have a couple of wet spots where traditional plants struggle. We see the pickerel weed often in the swamp and down by the river, and it's so pretty!
I have to mention too that we share so many of the same plant faves.
ohh, i love that Tropical Milkweed!
Oh wow! That tree frog is precious!
I'm flattered that you asked me about the broms... lets see. They're all neoregelias, the first one is hard to id without it flowering, the second one is similar to my red bands and might have some marmorata in it. The last ones are likely neo. zoe, and are really cute plants to climb a tree if its warm enough! I think you're okay down there. Thanks for the great collection of pics!
Wow do you have a lot blooming right now! I would have a hard time picking favorites too. Your Beautyberry is quite a bit ahead of mine. Those Mangoes look so good, and our figs our ripening up too. Between the kids and the birds we're going through them fast.
Wow Kimberly -- absolutely stunning! I couldn't even begin to say which was my favorite!
Hi Kimberly, Oh! What a huge variety of beautiful flowers you have! I like the last photo the best. Can I kiss the frog?
Fabulous colour in your garden - the blooms look lovely!
amazing selection Kimberley - quite surprised that your callicarpa is in berry already - I must go out and check to see if mine have gone to berry yet. Cute wee critter in the last one too looking up at you.
Good grief Kimberly, your garden makes mind look like a desert! No offence to the lovely deserts of course, but I don't have a tenth of the blooms you do. And mangoes? I'm very jealous!
Your August blooms are fabulous. Love them all!
Hi Kimberly...I think you've covered every color in the spectrum. Your garden must look very happy this month...so many beautiful blooms. I can tell that you've never met a plant you didn't like. :-) Thanks for joining in this month, and enjoy that mango.
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