On My Walk This Morning 4m

 

The one building that has chosen small pots for its flowers works hard to keep them

fresh and growing.  They are always watered, and if the plant is finished, they remove

it and replace it with a new plant.  Here some "Pink Sonic Impatiens" have just been

 put into a pot.

A second pot has new "Hot Pink Impatiens"

A third pot has been planted with with "Alphonsine Pink Sonic Impatiens"

There used to be many "Bauhinia / Orchid Trees" along our street, and they bloomed

in December and January.  But many were damaged by a wind storm a couple of years

ago.  But I discovered this damaged trunk with shoots of flowers emerging.

The Orchid Flowers were very colorful.

"Bauhinia / Orchid Tree Blossoms"

"Adeline" is a lovely light pink and lavender orchid.  Last year there were only

a couple of flowers; this year there are many.

"Elsie" is a wonderful large orchid in creamy white with splotches of purple.

"Dangerous Danielle" is a stem filled with deep purple orchids.

These beautiful "Astral Orchids" are a very pale blue or lavender.  They seem hardy

and yet very delicate/

I saw in the distance, at the end of the first half of my walk, a mass of red.  I went

closer and found it is an enormous bush of "Fire Engine Red Bougainvillea."  It is

growing at least fifteen feet high near the pool, but far enough way from the path

that lanscapers don't trim it.  It is glorious.

"Nefertiti Lavender Pentas / Egyptian Star Flowers."  This is a lovely bed of

pentas at the entrance to a building.

"Sidonie Pentas / Egyptian Star Flowers."  They will grow a long time and

produce many flowers if they are watered regularly.  This building has someone good

who watches and makes sure they are always watered.  

"Butterscotch" and "Happy Days."

"Blue Siberian Iris."  The bed will be filled with flowers for a week or so, and then have no

flowers at all for awhile.  And then suddenly, they are again filled with flowers.  This is

the second time for these little iris.

"Geraldine" is a brassier version of the pink and purple orchid.  The dark veins here

are very prominent.

Here is a "Touch of Blush" at its grandest.  It has the most flowers of any orchid

plant on my path.  On two stems, there are now 25 full beautiful orchids.

The plant has never done so well, and has been blooming for a long time.

"Mr. Funny Face" keeps evolving.  The eyes here are very clear and prominent.

The flowers are quite large.  They were among the first orchids to appear this year,

and they have been blooming for almost three months.

These very delicate "Gloria" orchids are tied high up on a tree; it is easy to walk by

without seeing them.  But they have perhaps the most delicate color of any of the

orchids.

This is one of the clusters of white orchids tied to trees in front of this building.

There are ten clusters in all, but all of the same white orchids.

"Queen Margrete" is elegant, regal, and joyous, put out by the man who likes miniatures.

A bed of "Penelope Pink Periwinkle" beside the walking path.

Huge bushes of various colors of "Impatiens / Busy Lizzies" beside the driveway.

"Wicked Witch of the North" Croton.  The long leave start out as pale yellow,

and then gradually turn dark red and finally black, for a very colorful bush.

The "Three Sisters" are growing on the trunk of a Robellini Palm.

A "Magnolia Grandiflora" blossom about ten inches in diameter.  They last for only

one day and then begin to turn brown.  But that one day is very splendid.

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