Garden Tour

I would have liked to have been on Cielo's garden tour, but it was one day- yesterday, the first day of summer. Even though I'm late, I'll show a few flowers around our house. I wish I had a yellow rose arbor to show you, but I don't! I do have an arbor and it is loaded with bouganvillia. Below is our courtyard where the arbor is, it is beside our front entryway.

Below is a picture of the courtyard before it grew to be so full and lush. This is the only picture I have of it now.

Look to the left of the picture above and you will see our alamanda plant. Below is a close-up of the beautiful yellow trumpet alamanda flowers on the bush. Sometimes this bush wants to grow as tall as the house, we have to keep it trimmed back.

In Florida, almost everyone has a hibiscus bush. Ours is pink. They come in red, yellow, pink, salmon, white, and maybe other colors.

Our hibiscus bush blooms year round. It also thinks it is a tree, and tries to grow to the top of the house! We have to keep it trimmed back as well.

In our backyard we have a magnolia tree. It is beside the lake. We wish it would grow taller!

Below is my special orchid, it isn't in a garden, it's on the back porch. It now has 23 blooms on it!! Orchids blooms stay about three months. I've never had one with this many blooms on it before.

I hope you enjoyed seeing a few of the flowers around our house. I had to make do with the photos since my camera isn't working.

We also have four fuschia colored crepe myrtle trees that are blooming now, but I don't have a camera to take a picture of them. I guess my old pictures of them must have been on the old computer that crashed!

I hope you enjoyed seeing a few of my flowers around our house! For other beautiful gardens, go to Cielo's House In The Roses blog!

Katherine