Portulaca grandiflora 'all aglow' flower One of my favorite landscape plants! Loves full sun! |
Heliconia 'hot rio nights' |
Just a few snap shots of what is popping their heads out from their winter slumber :)
Happy Gardening!
Portulaca grandiflora 'all aglow' flower One of my favorite landscape plants! Loves full sun! |
Heliconia 'hot rio nights' |
More Black from Tula in the middle, Hillbilly Potato Leaf are the mid size ones and the little ones are the Isis Candy. So far my favorites are the Isis Candy's, totally delicious!!! |
Third round of pickings of the Hillbilly Potato Leaf's & Isis Candy's. Minus a handful of the Isis's I popped in my mouth as I was picking them :) |
Another day of Black from Tula's & Hillibilly's, plus a little decor to go with it. |
A close up of the harvest without the decor, lol |
The big one in the back is Black from Tula & is about the size of a softball. The mid-size one is the Hillbilly Potato Leaf & the little sweet thing is an Isis Candy. Delicious! |
For those of you who are familiar with old Florida, you may remember our local attraction Parrot Jungle. In 2007 PJ moved out to Miami Beach (now called Jungle Island). |
Luckily the Village of Pinecrest knew the priceless value of what PJ left behind...gorgeous gardens! |
The cichilid pond at the main entrance. |
A rainbow of colors in the water lilies & black taro. |
This banyan tree must be over 80 ft high, the roots stretch from the ground to the canopy with lots of variegated philodendron's growing all over. |
This is another amazing plant that is in the shrimp plant family...anyone...anyone?? It's the Pachystachy coccinea |
I have never seen this plant before but it's a spectacular tropical shrub about 5 ft high with a gorgeous cardinal red & white plume of flowers. Anyone know what this is? :) |
Absolutely stunning rain forest type plant, again a no-nameer. Just a suggestion here Pinecrest Gardens...plant tags! :) |
So many layers of texture & color...the original old Oak trees & the new tropical understory additions. |
So much going on here, it is hard to gain a sense of the depth to this view but boy its stunning! |
Bromeliads on a fallen tree trunk. |
When Strangler Fig's attack...LOL! |
Beautiful koi fish in one of their tropical lagoons |
A composition of texture & color, lol |
It's such a shame that you can't see all of the depth and size in these pics. This goes straight back for about 30 feet but it looks so 2-d here :( |
Here again the tree is about 70 ft high & the foliage goes back about 40 ft to the areca palm line. Massive! |
Kind of an eerie reminder of how we cage animals |
Some of the coolest sculptural Banyan tree roots ever! |
Remember these trees have been here since the 1930's..YEOWZER! |
Talk about vintage! These are the original tables & umbrellas for the picnic area, tres chic! |
Another Banyan covered pathway |
The plant on the left is actually the purple bouganvilla covering this seating area in the top of the picture above. |
Covered seating with terra cotta tiles and our indigenous coral rock for the grotto. A great place to cool down on a hot Florida afternoon. What a view over looking the grassy knoll. |
A croton in bloom |
Next to the firey red croton is this amazingly spectaculare cool blue shrub. I would LOVE to know what this is! Again no identifying plant tags...whaaa! The color just pops out at you! |
Original sconces on the coral rock wall & yes the green corrugated plastic is original too. A very ingenious lighting effect. |
As we were leaving the light was streaming in and illuminated this otherwise plain planting area. |
Let there be light! |
A study of purple :) |