Garden Blogger's Bloom Day September 2015

 These Crinum lilies have perfumed the air in my shade house.

 Picobella petunias and impatiens

 A mix of petunias, gazanias and water lilies

Pink and yellow rain lilies emerging after the heavy showers we had yesterday.

Hello and welcome to GBBD where gardeners around the globe post what is blooming in their gardens. The Rustic Bajan Garden had some real rain yesterday and the seasonal pond has filled up beautifully. I am happy and the frogs are happy. More rain is still needed to fill our reservoirs around the island. 

To see more gardens around the world please visit Carol's blog maydreams gardens. 

Have a great week gardening!

July Standby

 It is Flamboyant season on my island and in my garden!

 There are pockets of red at almost every corner in the garden.

 Aloes in bloom

  

 My Picobella Petunias are growing nicely.

Dwarf cosmos started to bloom.

 Blood lily

 Sesbania grandiflora aka Parrot's beak growing nicely and I can't wait for them to bloom.

 Apple tree planted out and doing nicely.

 I am trying to grow Kiwi fruit from seed. They took some time to germinate. I am babying them shhhh.

 I found this a few weeks ago at a local nursery. It is called a phalsa berry or Sherbert berry. There are a few berries on so I am waiting to see how big they will get and what they taste like. http://www.fruitipedia.com/phalsa%20Grewia%20asiatica.htm

 Also bought this Mysore Raspberry the only Raspberry that will grow in the tropics. http://www.fruitipedia.com/mysore_raspberry.htm

Trying some ground cherries for the first time. I am sure I have seen these growing wild on the island.
 http://www.rockhillorchard.com/recipes/ground-cherries

Dragon fruit growing nicely. This was grown from seed by a friend who gave me the plant. I recently found some growing on the South of the island and stopped and asked the elderly owner for some cuttings. He didn't know the fruit was edible so I told him to google it.. I stopped by a few weeks later to ask him if he tried the fruit. He told me he and his wife tried them and were pleasantly surprised.
 He even told me where he saw some more of them growing. I checked them out and they were about to bloom.  

 Hope you all enjoyed this post.