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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)

Dec 5, 2013

warm winter wonders

This year is fast coming to an end and a new one soon to begin. yes I think about the past and worry about the future but I must stay here and "now".

 


 
           well my Ti plant finally bloomed!

It was a very warm November and as I type in December, it is 80 degrees. I am leaving this paradise for the frigid north in PA, VA and NYC for the holidays. A change of scenery is always invigorating.

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Tried some lettuces and I got a bumper crop of Meyers Lemons and Ruby Red Grapefruit.

Life gave me lemons .........

and lettuce and Ruby Reds!







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