Winter Meditation

Memory of my cats

Angel Trumpets &Bird of Paradise

winter joy!

Red Flame

This is Bob's favorite in my Bougainvillea collection. The brackets, started out green, then into deep pink, then into orange, then into deep red, and finally fade into tender pink.

Truly amazing.

Red Hibiscus

Today's suprise, the Hibiscus put out this amazing blossom.

Kimo

Today's gift, Kimo in bloom next to Consuallo Hibiscus. yellow gold, orange red rim, pin-wheel edges, beautiful spicy scent.

Hibiscus Consualla

Just open today! Scrumptious!

VeraCruz/SiamRed

It's worth waiting for, the yellow rose scent plumeria is a seedling of Vera Cruze Luteca with 4new tips!

Today's weighty SiamRed in fullbloom.

Butterfly Ginger

It's so beautiful, and so so fragrant.
At its best.

Plumeria

Siam Red still in full bloom.

Celadine perfumed the whole house.

Bougainville

Orange, a new addition.

Bicolor cutting obtain last year.

This pink is beautiful in this cool weather, deepen into a cool red in the summer.

Figlets

In this greenhouse, we house the figlets.
first year cuttings.

Tropicals

Night temperature dropped, all tropical are in this little greenhouse (10x10)
Nightblooming Cereus.
Ratail cactus.
Jasmine de Sambac.
Pandora Vine.
Angel Wing Begona.
Night blooming jasmine.
Bougainville.
Hoya carnosa.
Blue Bird Of Paradise.
Angel Wing Jasmine.
Pakalan Vine.
Meyer Lemon.
Kaffir Lime, Tangerine, and an Orange tree. The Brug a still in bloom. And bunches of Vera Cruze plumeria seedlings. The greenhouse is totally fragrant!

Water Fountain.

Excavated the soil, still not quite level, but I'm not known for my patient.

All are found found objects except the water feature is a flower pot, from the local nursery.

Surrounding with rocks I picked on the Hampton beach, NH where I used to live.

Seashell I picked on Hallandale Beach, Florida, our frequent vacation spot.

Summer

Summer's gone.
my beloved cat Jean-Claude passed-away in August, it was a very difficult time.
slowly...but I am back to painting, almost every day now.
I laid JC in my garden closed to the spot where we sit everyday.

Black Mission & Italian Honey

This Mission fig came from Lowes, can't believe it was just a little twig. Fruit is not quite as sweet as I expected. It could stand a few more days on the tree. It fall off this morning.

A bit disappointed with the Italian Honey, not very sweet this time, may be we have too much rain in the last few days. Crunchy seeds.

Hunt-LSU

This is Hunt, a skinny fruit. First year fig 12 inches tall tree. Reported tasty.

Picked

Well, we picked our first 2 Celeste figs today. They just fall off to the touch.

Celeste

Fig Celeste started to turn color today, soft to the touch, but I should wait a few more day before picking it.

Finally

Finally, Veracruz is blooming, dainty flowers cool transparent pink, buds are in shade of Pthalo Red Rose. Faintly scented.

Delicious

Hardy Chicago Fig is so ripe...picked yesterday.

Chilled and of course, it was so so sweet. Simply delicious!

My Cat JC

My sweetheart JeanClaude snoozing on the glass top table. Keeping cool. OOffss...I woke him up!

Hardy Chicago

Oh..oh..it turned violet just over night. Could it be ready to pick in a day or two? Hope the birds will not get it first. How exciting!

Cool White

Such a lovely bunch.

cool like breeze...and fragrant too.

JeanClaudeGold.

I've just notice how large these flowers are, and so are the leaves.

I imagine it will be a stately plant for sure.

JC on patrol

Just curious?

JeanClaudeGold.

Amazing flower, first bloom on this 2 years old cutting. Noted 7 petals. An eBay purchase. JeanClaudeGold is rich Cadmium yellow deep, sweet fragrant with a peachy red stripe on back of petals.
A beauty.

Dwarf Deciduous

First time bloomer, similar to Singapore but smaller. Cool white with yellow center, with delectable perfume.
can't wait for it to open fully, perhaps later today?

Cluster

I'm delighted to catch this cluster in full before the wind asaulted.

It has been so windy lately.

Veracruz

Inflow 2 years old cutting, Beautiful leaves so perfectly formed. Great anticipation.

Mele Pa Bowman

Delectable fragrant as pretty as it look

Penang Peach

Such a nice bunch for a tiny tree.

Pretty In Pink

I wish I could be able to photograph all six bunches together, but this will do.

LSU Gold

Yes, the tree is about a foot tall.
Fuits look flat and hugged tight to the tree.

Black Triana

The fruit on this Black Triana is so interesting, twin?

Jasmine

Jasmine de Sambac just start to come into season. Picture taken couple days ago.

Today the plant is totally loaded with heaven scented blossoms.

Kalamata

Kala from Maggie arrived in good shape.

will repot this weekend.

Diana

new to my garden, Diana...still only 12inches tall.
very very fragrant.