Just a few South Florida blooms for Mother's Day... Gorgeous Frangipani in bloom! Smells heavenly too!! First Heliconia bloom of the season. Hoya bouquets...
http://gardeninparadise.blogspot.com/2013/05/blooms-for-mothers-day.html
Unless you irrigate, there's not much to mow in South Florida during the winter/spring dry season. The dust swirls around the mower like a miniature sandstorm in the desert! But then, there's...
http://gardeninparadise.blogspot.com/2013/03/should-i-mow-weeds.html
Welcome! Come this way. Enjoy the surrounding paradise! This is what I want my entry and garden paths to say to everyone as they enter, pass through, and meander about. Hopefully I am ach...
http://gardeninparadise.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-welcome-mat.html
The garden has been resting, but activity begins with a bit of rain and warm temperatures. Look what's blooming: Bougainvillea, a Florida favorite, is blooming in abundance. I've always ha...
http://gardeninparadise.blogspot.com/2013/01/sunday-review.html
Don't you love those times when you know you're in for a treat and nothing disappoints? I recently enjoyed a day like that at FIG & FAUNA farm. In my very own neighborhood is th...
http://gardeninparadise.blogspot.com/2012/12/fig-fauna-with-cannelle-et-vanille.html
My Beautiful Blogging Friend, Susan of Simply Susan , Central Florida Gardener , and Life in Old Florida , was recently awarded the Beautiful Blogger Award, which is very well deserved. Bravo,...
http://gardeninparadise.blogspot.com/2012/11/beautiful-bloggers.html
Here's my newest addition...Double Purple Datura...or Brugmansia! I love the shape and color of this bloom. The double bloom and the curling tips are hypnotic to me. Admittedly...
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It's true that fall in zone 10 is not like my native Midwestern zone. Fall there is full of orange, yellow and red colors, and the air is crisp and cool. Admittedly, fall in zone 10 is not as ...
http://gardeninparadise.blogspot.com/2012/10/fall-in-south-florida.html
Every year I receive a new, special plant for my birthday. This year's addition is Musseanda erythrophylla. It also goes by the common name of Tropical Dogwood. The dusty pink bra...
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I am so appreciative of my garden...the many colors, textures, forms and inhabitants are never boring, always soothing, typically interesting and sometimes surprising. This is the fiery...
http://gardeninparadise.blogspot.com/2012/09/garden-appreciation.html
"Are you missing one of your chickens?" my neighbor called to ask. Apparently a yard bird, as we endearingly call them, was loose down the road. My girls were locked up tight but I still had...
A week ago, my sunny Garden in Paradise was gray and submerged in several feet of water while being pummelled by a seemingly endless deluge of rain. Just after sunrise, our property appear...
http://gardeninparadise.blogspot.com/2012/09/flood-recovery-after-ts-isaac.html
Florida's rainy season creates a prime environment for all types of fungus and mold. Most of the time I don't notice them, but lately the mushrooms have been popping up all over my yard. I do...
http://gardeninparadise.blogspot.com/2012/08/fungus-among-us.html
My intentions are great...really, they are. I see something amazing, capture it on film, and create a fantastically brilliant post in my mind that I will publish sometime later when I get a ch...
http://gardeninparadise.blogspot.com/2012/07/a-collection-of-macros.html
Is it July already? I guess I've been busy, like everyone else. Most of my gardening at this point has been watering, weeding and composting the sand...I mean soil. When the ground you're t...
http://gardeninparadise.blogspot.com/2012/07/july-already.html
Although I am blessed with blooms and green foliage all year in South Florida, the early rains this year have brought on some fabulous blooms! I have several Frangipani in my yard, all you...
http://gardeninparadise.blogspot.com/2012/05/may-flowers-finally.html
After being rehomed for 7 months due to a family situation, Lola is back home! She was very excited to revisit our daily garden inspections. These two Acalypha godseffiana 'Firestorm', also...
http://gardeninparadise.blogspot.com/2012/04/lola-is-home.html
One of my favorite things to do is walk about my garden first thing in the mornng. I love to see what surprises await me in the garden; what is new in bloom; what wildlife I might see; the dew ...
http://gardeninparadise.blogspot.com/2012/02/morning-walk-about.html
Recently I was the oh-so-blessed finder of an amazing orchid cache. Five orchids of various types had been neglected and discarded to the curb for the bi-weekly refuse team to collect and ...
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I find it strange that succulents thrive in Florida, but they do. I think of them more as cacti living in hot dry desert environments, but that shows how much I still have to learn. There ar...
http://gardeninparadise.blogspot.com/2012/01/succulent-blooms.html
Not being a Florida native, tropical warm winters are somewhat new to me. For most of my life, winter meant a cold, snowy, icy time for the garden and landscape to rest deep within the warmth o...
http://gardeninparadise.blogspot.com/2011/12/december-in-paradise.html
I have been asked many times about growing Hoyas. I've often wanted to blog about them, so here's my chance! Hoya is a genus comprised of some 200-300 species of tropical vines or clim...
http://gardeninparadise.blogspot.com/2011/11/hoyas-and-waterlogged.html
Although it's been 3 month's since my last blog post, and my blogging had slowed considerably prior to that post, I'm happy that I have spent my time outside in my lovely garden in paradise. Si...
http://gardeninparadise.blogspot.com/2011/10/fall-in-paradise.html
Now that Florida's much anticipated rainy season is in full swing, the garden and new immature additions have really come to life! Even watering daily with well water does not compare to na...
http://gardeninparadise.blogspot.com/2011/07/additions-to-butterfly-garden.html
I've been terribly negligent with my blog these days. A new job and the start of the rains (which translates to weeds that turn into trees overnight if left unattended) has left little time f...
http://gardeninparadise.blogspot.com/2011/07/progress-report-no-macros-this-time.html