Garden Blogger's Bloom Day July 2017

 The mango season has come to an end and you can bet how happy I am!

 This volunteer lisanthus in full bloom in a pot.

 Colourful Zinnias

 White mandevilla

 Pink mandevilla

 flame celosia

 Jasmine

 Rudebeckia

 Dragon fruit aka pitaya

 Royal Poinciana aka flamboyant, gul mohur in its element!

 Lagerstromeia speciosa aka queen of flowers

 West Indian bay leaf tree in bloom

 White mussenda

 Pink mussenda

 Tropical hydrangea

 Yellow alamanda and glaphima glauca aka showers of gold

 Tree jasmine

 My guards and partners in crime, Reds and Yoda!

 Young Carambola fruit

Fruit bats damage  to the carambola. I will be lucky to get any this season.

Hello and welcome to GBBD where gardeners around the globe post what is blooming in their gardens.  It has been horribly hot the past week and that was due to a tropical wave in the area. It has passed us with very little rain. 

OnThursday I had a group visit from retirees from the UWI  who were touring the island. They thoroughly enjoyed themselves.

 To see more blooming gardens please go over to Carol the brainchild of GBBD at may dreams gardens. Have a great weekend gardening!

A roadside view

Last year I had my helper  dig up some very old and  bad looking hibiscus shrubs that bordered the perimeter of the property at the front along the roadside. I replaced them with Christmas palms and plumeria pudica.

Today we completed the job and I counted a total of thirty nine Christmas palms  and about  thirty seven plumerias. It will take about  four years (geez sounds too long)  to be fully appreciated providing we get adequate rainfall.

The grass was cut today and more rain is expected so I gave it a lower cut than usual. The dwarf  yellow alamandas were trimmed back earlier this year and boy they are flowering up a storm.

The yellow galphimia glauca aka thryallis (showers of gold) now occupies this space that once housed an old tree stump. I have planted an avocado tree in the middle replacing the stump.