On My Walk This Morning 3l

We have many decorative green plants in South Florida, and this is a nice display

of five of them: Broad Leaf Lady Palm, Boston Ferns, Dracaena Marginata,

Sanchezia, and Roebellini Palms.

Broad Leaf Lady Palms with Sanchezia in the back right.

 

"Peace Lilies" in pure white with dark green leaves.

 

A mother hen and nine little Muscovy Duck chicks.  Their gestation period

is 35 days, while all other ducks are 28 days.  These chicks are about

a week old.

"Pink Parfait" Copperleaf bushes.  They make a very good background and grow

as high as six feet.

This is an unusual ixora, with pale green leaves and a pale orange flower.

"Song of India" Dracaena Marginata / Dragon Plant.  This variety has long,

drooping leaves for a special appearance.  They are very hardy and drought resistant.

This is a very dramatic "Agave."

When it is two or three years old, it will send up a huge stalk fifteen feet high

loaded with little flowers.  Little fruits will form and drop off,

and the plant will die.

"Red Chenille Plant."  Long chenille strands hang down all around the plant.

A lovely clump of purple "Verbena."

Frilled Pink "Chinese Hibiscus"

A bush of Pink "Chinese Hibiscus"

Two people in the condos to the right have a number of interesting plants,

and they take care of this tree.  This where I found the "Purple Shamrock" below.

A bush of "White Pentas / Egyptian Star Flowers" at the base of the stairs.

Delicate "White Pentas / Egyptian Star Flowers"

This is a new variety of "Golden Tabebuia."  They are all over, and they

bloom in early spring keeping their flowers for about three weeks.  But this

new variety has bloomed three times separately, amazingly.  They bloomed once

and held their blossoms for about two weeks, then began dropping them.  But a

couple of weeks later the trees were completely covered in new flowers.  And then'

they did that a third time.  It was pretty amazing; there were three young trees.

Another of the multi-blooming "Golden Tabebuias."

And the Gardenia bush still produces new blossoms.  Whenever it rains, the bush

will have 8-10 lovely gardenias blooming the next day.

"Purple Shamrock /Oxalis Triangularis."  These plants look very nice in pots

with their very dark foliage and light lilac blossoms.

And this week a I found a bed of these unusual flowers, the "White Butterfly

Ginger Lily."  They are rare White Ginger plants.  They are very beautiful

and were thriving in a shady location under a large, full shade tree.

 

"White Butterfly Ginger Lilies."  They always bloom in clusters, never individually.

When these six or eight clusters wilt and died, they will put out another six to eight.

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