Well tomorrow we head North, leaving the late spring of Florida for the early spring of Connecticut. It's been in the 80's for the last 4 weeks in Florida and then last week we got about 8 inches of rain. The plants have just jumped out of the ground and everything is in bloom. So as a farewell to Florida here are all the new flowers that have shown up. This is a White Iris which the previous owners had planted all over the place - it's a beautiful flower.
I got three Amaryllis's for Polly which we planted a month before Christmas (inside) and all three of them had beautiful blooms. After Christmas we planted them outside and what do you know - they are blooming again.
We had two hanging baskets left by the previous owners which didn't do anything until a week ago. With the nice flower we have identified them as Portulaca.
We have an arbor behind the house with something growing on it that wasn't very pretty. I talked about ripping it off and putting in some purple Wisteria - but that was before the sun, fertilizer and the rain. The arbor is now full of a multicolor type of Honeysuckle - it's going to stay.
We bought a small Prickly Pear Cactus at a yard sale for $2 and planted it on the south side of the house. Two weeks ago the Cactus started to bud and look how much it grew in those two weeks. All the brighter green is new growth - this is what the Mexicans cut off and eat - I went to a small Mexican restaurant (named Ana's) with the Curry's and had a stew with cut up cactus in it - tasted great.
These are ones that have been in bloom for a month now. They just keep on budding out new flowers. The red one is Fire Bush and the yellow is Lantana.
Even the Mums are blooming!
On the south side of the house are Roses.
In the shady beds are Purple Hearts.
So that covers the flowers but wait we still got fruit to cover yet. First Paul Curry and I went into the jungle next to us and picked at least a bushel of wild oranges - they are the sweetest.
The Loquat Tree has ripened enough (a couple that were very ripe we ate - delicious) and will complete their ripening on the way home.
Now the new citrus trees we planted have all bloomed and are starting to form little fruits. This is the Meyer Lemon - I have snipped off about half of them since there were so many they would break the branches if they all developed.
On the other end of size is the Pomello and you can see it's size already.
Well that's it. Now we can head North and see all this happen again with Spring in Connectiucut.
