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A rich, golden yellow #Vanda #orchid blooming today in #MyGarden. 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling #MyGarden #Orchids

Silhouettes of trees visible from the front porch swing this Friday evening as we enjoy our weekly ritual of margaritas, chips, homemade salsa and homemade guacamole.

Friday evening view from the front porch swing. 🌱 #Dusk #Trees #LiveOak #Magnolia #ToyalPalm #Plumeria #Coconut #Palms
#PorchSwing #FrontPorch #Margaritas 🙂

More fresh spring #oak leaves. 🌱 #Plants #Trees #LiveOak #MyGarden

What a treasure.

Spring. is coming.

Fresh young oak leaves are sprouting - is coming! 🌱 #LiveOak #Plants #Trees #MyGarden #BlueSky

Here’s the first of the season here in south Florida. Also planted by the birds near the feeder. This survived two nights of 35 degrees shortly before blooming.

First #sunflower of the season! Can you find the #honeybee? 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling #MyGarden

More #roses blooming today in #MyGarden. These are ‘Belinda’s Dream.’ 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling

Roses blooming today in #MyGarden. These are ‘Pink Carpet.’ 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling

A manatee turned around ever so slowly and came back to investigate the Cam and warm us up inside on a chilly February afternoon 🤗〰️🐮〰️🥶 #manatee #manateesofcoralcity #seacow #seapotato #coldsnap #sirenia #closeup #comehere #coralcity #coralcitycamera #miami #coral #portmiami #biscaynebay

Our #FloridaNative Coral Bean tree
(Erythrina herbacea) was unfazed by our 29-year low temperature of 35 degrees earlier this week. 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling #MyGarden

Today’s cool temperatures couldn’t stop this red-hot ‘Lady Margaret’ passionflower blooming today in #MyGarden! 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling

Flour?

Seen in my neighborhood. . . .

#NoKings #Trump #Resist

This beautiful #Cattleya #orchid hybrid booms reliably for us once a year, usually in early February. It’s about three weeks early this year. 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #Orchids #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling

I got this #orchid from the bargain table at RF Orchids in Redlands. It’s the first bloom so far. Vanda Razarudin Husain 'Fire Leopard' (V. Kulwadee Fragrance x V. Vanut Leopard). All of my #orchids not attached to trees have to come inside in advance of the predicted 43 F for tonight. 🌱 #MyGarden

Somebody didn’t waste any time finding a spot for a nap as we were taking down the #ChristmasDecorations, including this “psychedelic“ quilted #Christmas wreath that my mother made back in the 1970’s. #Cats #CatsofBlueSky #CatNapping

Same sunset, Wilton Manors.

#Sunset

Bobo rang in the new year under the Christmas tree. #Cats #CatsOfBlueSky

This Rhynchostylis gigantea #orchid is blooming today in #MyGarden. Two bloom spikes are almost fully open and a third spike won’t be far behind. 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #Orchids #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling

The evening view from our driveway. 🌱 #Coconut #Palms #Plants #Trees

Care of Papilionandas (Papiliovandas) aka "1/4 Terete Vandas" — Motes Orchids    Now that the “terete vandas” have been placed in their own genus Papilioanthe, the plants which have long been called semi-terete and ¼ terete vandas are now properly Papilionanda (Pap...

Orchid expert Dr. Martin Motes lives nearby in the Miami area. His orchid house sells a lot of what are now called Papilionandas or 1/4 teretes. As I understand it,the full-terete leaves are almost round, pencil-like. The 1/4's are slightly open, tight-v-shaped. www.motesorchids.com/fogblog/2016...

Yes, they are large - just shy of 4 inches in diameter!

Here is one of our favorite #Vanda #Orchids that is blooming today in #MyGarden just in time for #Christmas. This one blooms several times a year. Unfortunately its label was lost long ago. 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #Orchid #BloomScrolling #FlowerReport

The huge #cypress #trees on the #SanAntonio #RiverWalk are all decked out with #Christmas lights. It’s a very festive place tonight! 🌱 #Texas

One of the sun-loving quarter terete #vanda #orchids blooming today in #MyGarden. 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling #orchid

The first bloom of the season on our #orchid rescue tree. It’s a shaggy-trunked palm tree where I mount #orchids given to my by their original owners who are frustrated that they can’t get their grocery store phals to bloom a second time. 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #MyGarden #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling

I’m not an expert on this. This plant is growing outside. Here in South Florida the daylight is currently about 10.5 hours, low temperatures about 70 at night and high temperatures in the low 80s in daytime. It has been dryer than usual with only about 1 inch of rain so far this December.