Coolness of the Northside

Woohoo!  We got our first rain in ages yesterday afternoon!  It lasted all of about 5 minutes, but a little rain is better than no rain at all.  Hope it's a sign of wetter things to come.

Oh, How the Garden Sizzles!

What gloriously blazing blooms are sizzling in my landscape here at November's end!!  I am submitting this to the Hawaiian Plant Fanatic's Hot, Loud & Proud meme that he hosts at the end of every month.  Pop on over if you'd like to see other sizzling blooms or join in yourself.

summer scene stealers

Like every other garden in the world, mine is dominated by the color green...green grass, green shrubs, green leaves on perennials...even green weeds.  But all around the garden, here and there, can be found pops of brilliant color bursting out of that green sea.  If you're not careful, you just might get smacked in the face by one of these as you round the corner.

Hot, Loud, and Solemnly Proud

How fun it is to walk through the garden searching for the hottest, loudest, and proudest!  Here's what I found this morning:

Ha! I laugh in the face of winter!

Old Man Winter just can't keep a good garden down!  For those who haven't read my blog from the beginning, you are probably fortunate to have missed out on the whining and belly-aching that flowed from my fingers for the first three months of this year.  Central Florida was hit by a frigid, long-and-drawn-out winter, the kind that comes maybe once every twenty years here in my neck of the woods.  Just in time for me to start a garden blog.  Exactly the kind of winter that those pushing the boundaries with tropical plants dread the most.  But no more belly-achin' here!  I am thrilled to find that each week of May brings more growth and more flowers to this pseudo-tropical garden.  I'm so glad I didn't rip the whole lot of it out and start over.  From here on out, my only complaining will probably have to do with the incessant weeds.

GBBD: May 2010

It is a happy Garden Blogger's Bloom Day for me here in the month of May.  There are so many more new blooms to share than last month.

The Hot, the Loud, and the Proud! (April 2010)

I have to admit that I was drawn more to the Cool, the Quiet, and the Demure when photographing my plant babies this morning.  The hot colors have dominated the garden for months, and I've been more than ready for some soft pastel hues.

FFU April 2010: A Feast of Foliage

Today is Foliage Follow-Up, hosted by Pam at Digging.  We truly have a feast of foliage in this garden today.  The (too many) deciduous trees I have planted in this garden finally look more like trees than sticks!  They have all filled in nicely over the past couple of weeks, making the garden so much greener and lusher and shadier than it's been for months.  : )