On My Walk This Morning 3h

 

"Sunburst Yellow Polygala Nana."

This morning I discovered two flower beds nearly concealed by bushes and also the

lady who planted them.  She goes to the nursery, buys bunch of plants which are

bright and colorful, plants them, and throws away the name tags.  Several were

unusual, and I had to go look for names.

"Sunburst Yellow Polygala Nanas."  These brightly colored yellow balls gave

a feeling of excitement and fun to the flower beds.

Nearby, she had a couple of patches of "Orange Gazania," a relatively new

plant in South Florida.

The "Gazanias" were planted alongside "Blue Burst Polygala Nanas."

The orange pepper, the lady told me, was an actual hot pepper, and there were a number

of them amongst the flowers, and they drove away pesky iguanas, which like to eat

colorful flowers.  She replaced the peppers every week or so and claimed they really worked.

At the back of the flowerbeds, against the wall, she had planted several of these

"Red Riding Hood Mandevilla Vines."  They grow fast and produce a number of

intensely colored flowers.

"Red Riding Hood Mandevilla Vine"

" Gaiety Coreopsis" is a bright cheerful flower which blooms profusely and

spreads rapidly.  It has a feathery leaf.

"Aloe" plant in bloom.  There are many varieties of aloe, and everyone

has at least one plant around, because they are so helpful with  cuts

and sunburn.

"Tripping Lightly Yellow Walking Iris"

This is a plant from the West Indies which has become very popular in South

Florida.  It is very prolific, spreads rapidly, and seems quite hardy.

"Fiona Red Ixora"

The lady also had two bushes of these red ixora at the ends of the flower beds.

A bush of "Fiona Red Ixora" flowers.

There are late blooming orchids just opening up now on trees.  The orchids

started blooming at the end of January and more keep appearing.

This is "Breath of Spring" Phalaenopsis Orchids.

"White Candles / Whitfieldia Elongata" are splendid this year.

Partly it is because the gardeners did not prune them severely at the wrong time.

There are four bushes of them like this along one stretch of buildings.

"Wicked Witch of the North" Phalaenopsis Orchids

"Golden Shower" Oncidium Orchids

This was one of the orchids which someone recently tied to a tree.

"Northern Curly Tailed Lizard."  He can escape an enemy who grabs him by the tail

by snapping his tail off and then growing another one.  Our smallest lizard is the Anole, then 

this one, then the Basilisk (the Jesus Lizard), called that because he can walk on

water.  Actually they run on their hind legs and they can run all the way across a lake.

Largest of the lizards ae the Iguanas, which come in all sizes and colors.

This is one of 35 fiberglass fish statues which are all over Pompano.

Each one was decorated by a different artist in a different style.  Two of them

happen to be along my path.  This fellow is in Brummer Park.

Another of the fiberglass fish.  They are similar to the Cows of Chicago and

the Charlie Brown Figures in the Twin Cities.

"Chinese Fan Palm."  This is a very nice palm, which never needs trimming, and

provides a green wall or screen in a short time.  This one is beside the

swimming pool.

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