I think we all need a bit of color – definitely in spite of all the weather that is going on in the US. Rain (flooding & mudslides) along the West Coast, snow and ice in the middle of the country and lots of rain & snow along the East coast. Oh and then……… two solid days of rain in Florida -very unusual for us.
Some days you just need pretty flowers to brighten your day.
Here you go……………….
Snapdragons – a multitude of colors. These are great to grow in Florida during our ‘winter’ season. Like, now.
Always loved purple and this is a favorite plant combination: purple pansies and dusty miller with a few white pansies hiding amongst the foliage.
Pansy faces are so darn cute.
Pinks, pinks and other shades of pink.
We don’t see a lot of dahlias in Florida. Typically grown in areas that have some chilling temps overwinter – which means we use them as an annual here.
I can absolutely guarantee that I have never planted these two colors together. Hmmmmm, maybe I need to rethink that.
Sun Impatiens………. more easily grown in Florida than other similar varieties.
My husband has always promoted mixing up the types of flowers in a plant bed. Truth be told – never done it.
Such a gorgeous shade of pink for this snapdragon.
I’m always drifting to the flower beds with pinks. Mixed in with the (multiple varieties) of impatiens were the taller dianthus. The white impatiens help the other colors really pop. 🙂
I found this small spot of whimsey.
I haven’t mentioned our flowering trees. They are just starting to bloom.
Hong Kong Orchid Tree – kind of gangly and not really the best photo or the easiest to take.
And yes, some of my photos were taken during one of our two days of rain.
Tabebuia – yellow trumpet trees. The sun was shining as I walked up………then I never saw it again. These trees are trully ‘show-stoppers’. All the leaves drop, flower buds come out and then they pop open. As you can see below, the entire tree is yellow and can been seen from great distances.
If the sun had been shining, you would see that these flowers are the brightest of bright yellow.
Not everything worked out as I would have liked. Here are the Tabebuia PInk Trumpet Trees. They looked pretty good from a distance, along a bank of plants.
Get up close and they don’t look quite as attractive. I just couldn’t find a flower cluster within reach that looked great.
My last few shots are planter boxes where there is one dominant color but numerous, different flowers in each box. The red one was most intriguing to me. Never would have planted red-ish pansies with geraniums and petunias.
Reds:
Blues/Purples:
Yellows:
This was in the yellow planter box but couldn’t get it in the original photo above since it was taller than most of the other plants.
Pretty flowers for a dreary day.
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