Winter is Coming

The Sunshine State continues to have sun and beautiful weather while my northern family and friends have been buried in drifts of snow and frigid arctic cold.  Yes, we’ve had some chilly mornings and a lot of rain which is unusual, but our first real cold blast is expected to hit this week.  If it gets as cold as predicted, that will be the end of the blooms for a few months. Even covering the plants in the gardens and moving pots to the shed might not save them from 20 degree weather.  So I spent some time in my yard snapping pics of what may be the last of the flowers.

PoinsettasPlumbagoPeace LiliesMandevillaImpatiensCosmosAzaleas

The above lovely azaleas are blooming at least 6 weeks too early.  A freeze will put an end to their show and perhaps their spring flowering will also be effected. I’m just hoping that our weather forecasters are wrong!

Winter is Coming

Ok.  I’m a huge Game of Thrones fan so anyone that doesn’t watch it, that’s a reference to that GREAT show.  I should probably read the books but they are so BIG!

Anyhow, sorry about the weather to the rest of the country.  It’s getting cold here, too, but nothing like you have.  I didn’t have anything to write about today and just went off taking pics.  And here they are, before winter destroys all my floral beauties.

Hamelia

Peace Lillies
Can’t grown Peace Lillies in this house but they love my back yard.

Peace Lillies

Pentas
Still have pentas but the butterflies have moved to Mexico.
Butterfly Bush
Butterfly Bush, only called that because it looks like a butterfly. It does not attract them!
Banana flower
Will I ever get bananas? I think not!
Impatiens
So pretty, won’t get cold enough this week to cover these lovelies but it will come.
Maggie
Maggie is looking for otters!
Grebe
Once it starts cooling down we get a lot more ducks and birds.
Egrets and wood storks
Those are wood storks and egrets out there resting on the palms

 

Anhinga
There’s an anhinga drying its wings.

Du….du…du…just lookin’ out my back door.