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Central, FL, United States
I am a former teacher, aspiring artist, inveterate traveler This blog is about my Florida garden experience and its expression though poetry, philosophy, photography and art. It includes my other creative endeavors. Here can be found posts about travel to other gardens around the world. My garden is a half acre in zone 9a which includes a large water garden. I have mostly a shade garden because of the huge live oak. To keep things easy, I love to grow bromiliads,ferns,gingers and other tropicals. I need to have a low maintenance garden. In the summer we usually have plenty of rain and it transforms into a jungle. I have converted my swamp into the water garden where I grow irises, waterlilies, papyrus, radigan, spikebush and swamp lily. I also grow citrus (lemon,key lime,grapefruit,tangerines,pineapple,and loquats). Me?...Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses. (Ovid)

Aug 15, 2012

my spicy ginger garden

Alpinia zerumbet -shell ginger
Kmeapferia Roscoeana -peacock ginger

Shampoo Ginger


Globba schomburgkii 'Yellow Dancing Lady


Dichorisandra thyrsiflora - Blue Ginger
                It is not a true ginger



Costus Barbatus- Spiral Ginger

The Spices of Life

One blames the flame of misfortune
that incises life to a concise spot,
while fortune smiles slitting through clouds
oft goes undetected for ignorance.

Abundance jeopardizes sharpness
of mind, sensibility dies with time;
simplicity is evergreen
yet abandoned for the rising opulence
and materialistic views
killing all muses and sparkles of life.

Instances lying in numbers 
where we react with ill fated facts -
If an earthquake or tsunami
hits and hurts life on earth,
is treated as curse,
but how many rainbows in the sky
are acknowledged as a matter of grace?

Clouds gather and rains do shower,
plants grow green yielding flowers of colors,
each kernel of the fruits consumed -
provisions are made enough for life on earth.
So may strife be seen as a thorny path to
roses' sweetness for those who can taste.

Let there be no anguish -
no angst within
for the calamities of life on terrain.
Destiny is never foreseen
yet forcing us to a predestined lane -
strive against all strife else you miss
the spices of life - willful gift of God. 
Gautam Sen


Kahili Ginger

Apricot Butterfly Ginger
they all are

Hedychium coronariums -Butterfly Gingers

and have a mild sweet frangrance.


6 comments:

  1. FlowerLady Lorraine8/16/2012

    Oh my gosh, these are all wonderful! I don't have any gingers. I do have that bromeliad that you showed here though. Have several blooms right now.

    Happy gardening and living in FL.

    FlowerLady

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  2. Gone Tropical8/16/2012

    I love gingers and your pictures are wonderful! Aren't we lucky to be able to grow them in our yards :-)

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  3. Hoover Boo8/21/2012

    A Hediychium or two will grow here, but mostly they are exotics, so I really enjoyed seeing all your blooms. So colorful!

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  4. Forest Dream Weaver8/25/2012

    Lovely photos of amazing plants!

    Ruby

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  5. tina8/31/2012

    I can almost smell the ginger from here. Your garden must be heaven. I've tried the pinecone ginger and a white kind here but neither is cold hardy:( Lovely gingers. They are so colorful.

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  6. Lavender and Vanilla Friends of the Gardens9/13/2012

    You have got a beautiful collection of gingers, love that apricot one.

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