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I stopped by a friend’s house yesterday and was greeted by this lovely (and very tame) bird. “We have lots of #peacocks in the neighborhood,” he said. #Birds #BirdsOfBluesky

This is my favorite. I had just finished listening to this on The Chieftains’ Bells of Dublin album when I opened Bluesky and saw your post.

I tried a spotted one a couple of years ago but it didn’t thrive for me.

The first buds on our #mango tree this year. They are about three weeks earlier than the first blooms last year. The fruit is ready to harvest in June. This is the “Julie“ variety. 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #FlowerReport #MyGarden #BloomScrolling.

We sometimes get a second round of a few blooms in early summer. But I like the foliage as much as, or more than, the blooms.

More blooms from the Yesterday,Today, Tomorrow bush (Brunfelsia pauciflora). 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #MyGarden #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling

The bright, cheery blooms of Farfugium japonicum are regular December additions to our garden. The large, glossy leaves make a beautiful deep green mound of foliage year-round in our South Florida climate. 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #MyGarden #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling

Gorgeous!

I’ll never think of #poinsettias in the same way again after seeing this amazing display this past October near the ancient pyramid in #Cholula, #Puebla, #Mexico. This plant was easily 8-10 feet (2.5-3 m) high! 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling

Firespikes!!! These plants are blooming like crazy in these shorter, cooler days. 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #MyGarden #RED #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling

Our Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow bush (Brunfelsia pauciflora) is always in full bloom for Thanksgiving. The flowers turn from purple to lavender to white, thus the name. 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #MyGarden #FlowerReport #Bloomscrolling

Any drawer that’s left open is quickly claimed as a cat bed #Cats #CatsOfBlueSky

I had this #orchid hanging in a tree about 20 feet (6m) from the street,and last night someone stole it.

Sunbathing #Cats #Caturday

Sunbathing. #Cats

A no-ID #Vanda blooming today in #MyGarden. 🌱 #Orchids #Plants #Flowers #BloomScrolling #FlowerReport

Thank you. What a beautiful cat Boo-boo was!

We thought we were going to lose our Bobo today, but the vet came through with some medication that is helping him. His whiskers have turned from black to white with age, but his affectionate nature remains. Notice how he daintily crossed his paws and posed for this #Caturday photo. #Cats

A female cone of a coontie (Zamia floridana or Z. Integrifolia). The reddish-brown oval shaped cone is about 3.5 inches (9 cm) high. Coonties are the host plant for the rare Atala butterfly. The seeds will be a vivid red-orange color.

A male cone of a coontie (Zamia floridana or Z. Integrifolia). The brown cylindrical cone is about 6 inches (16 cm) high. Coonties are the host plant for the rare Atala butterfly. Lots of light yellow pollen is visible here. It will be carried to the female cone by beetles and other insects.

Like all #cycads, the coontie, Florida’s only native cycad, has separate male and female plants. Cycads have cones instead of flowers. On the left is a 9cm female coontie cone, with a pollen-laden 15cm male cone on the rt. Beetles and other insects are the pollinators. (See Alt) 🌱 #Plants #MyGarden

One of the George King varieties of Cattleya #orchids blooming today in #MyGarden. 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling

Vanda Ambrosian Discovery
(1846 V. tricolor var. suavis x V. insignis) 🌱 #Orchids #Plants #Flowers #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling #Vanda

Prosthechea cochleata

#orchid #orchids #photography #nature #flower #bluesky #houseplants

Three years ago I was lucky enough to go on a swamp walk in the Fakahatchee Strand of the Everglades in southwest Florida where we saw these amazing orchids blooming in their native habitat.

A very long name for this petite #orchid blossom: Vanda tessellata x Vanda Motes Ruby Pixie ‘Alice Motes’ 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #Orchids #MyGarden #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling

More Atala #butterflies on the way! (Eumaeus atala) I counted 18 #caterpillars on one small coontie plant (Zamia integrifolia) this morning. It’s almost totally defoliated now, but that’s why I grow them. More leaves will come out before too long. 🌱 #MyGarden #Insects #Cycads

This wide-eyed Cuban tree frog was inspecting me as I invaded its space tonight in #MyGarden. 🌱 #Frogs #Animals #Wildlife #Amphibians

It’s not a Florida native orchid, but it and many others are growing on the tree.

#Roses and #Orchids. 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #MyGarden FlowerReport #BloomScrolling

I don’t think indigenous cultures used potter’s wheels until after they were introduced by Europeans, so this piece may be old, but not pre-Colombian.

We’re zone 10b here in the Fort Lauderdale area