Fragrant Flowers in Florida

A wide range of flowers in a tropical garden

Today ’s pic come from Audrey Powers .

My husband and I have been gardening for almost all of our lives , so sharing this hobby is very rewarding and fun . We have go in many state along the East Coast and presently hold up in Tampa , Florida . When we moved 15 years ago there was very small in the little garden beyond our syndicate , and I commented , “ Let ’s flex this yard into a tropic paradise . ” With much trial and error , we have done just that .

At the end of February , different areas begin to bloom and release their lovely scents and brilliant color . Various planting in different country of the garden take their turns being the star of the garden for several workweek . The aroma travels around the grand approximately every two workweek as fresh blooms set about to burst open .

It is difficult to capture the peach of the whole yard , because there are pockets of blooms at dissimilar sentence and I tend to focus on snap of flower faithful - ups . Here are a few of our looker .

A stunning variegated bromeliad . This is a variegated , ornamental version of a Ananas comosus ( Ananas comosus‘Variegatus ’ , Zones 10–11 ) .

shut - up of the variegated pineapple bloom spindle , with the distinctive tuft of top leaves begin to grow . This gaudy works is well deserving mature as an yearly or ahouseplantin cold-blooded climates .

A gardenia ( geographical zone 8–11 ) in full bloom . Gardenias have to be one of the most fragrant flowers out there , with each white heyday sate the garden with its plenteous aroma .

The dangling blooms of a casing ginger ( Alpinia zerumbet , Zones 8–10 ) .

Another powdered ginger , this one a variety show ofCurcuma(Zones 8–10 ) .

A collection of herb ( and a few flowers)growing in pots .

Amaryllis(Hippeastrumhybrids ) are normally uprise indoors in cold climates , but they can be planted out in the landscape painting in Zones 8 and warmer , and some variety are even hardy to Zone 7 . Indoors or out , they are beautiful flowers .

Amagnolia(Magnolia grandiflora , Zones 6–10 ) bloom .

These lemon are ready to glean .

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