I love the garden at night, I always find something that I missed during the day.
Garden at night
Ae Ae banana. Can't wait for pups :D
And the brugs are at their best at night
And another brug.
Passion flowers look great at night too
Passiflora incense.........wonderful scent at night!!
And you gotta go out at night or else you'll never see the night blooming cactus.
You must have been doing the same thing I was earlier. Wandering around out in the dark snapping photos! I love the garden at dusk and beyond as well. Do you have The Evening Garden by Peter Loewer? Fantastic book, beautifully illustrated. Started it all for me in a really big way. Hence......Nightbloomer.....
Will post some photos of my walk about this evening.
Susan
This brug is having it's third flush of blooms You can see my roof line in the back ground. The scent drew the neighbors over.
Another up close shot.
The night blooming jasmine! Not my favorite scent but the moths love it and I love to watch them.
Rangoon Creeper wrapped around the a banana This is just started to bloom now.
I don't want to go to work tomorrow! I just want to stay home and play in the garden!
Susan
Are those ti plants? If so, how much sun do they get. I was thinking about getting a couple .
Just BEAUTIFUL Susan and Ric! Gardens are so magical at night when exotic fragrance fills the air. Your photos are lovely!! Ric, I finally gave away my night blooming cerus because I would watch the bud for what seemed like months, and miss the bloom every time.
How beautiful
The AeAe is spectacular
Nightbloomer, the rangoon creeper doesn't hurt the banana? I'm running out of things for my vines to climb on and if bananas work, that would be great!
BTW, your flowers are really nice.
Pretty pixes! and may I ask what name of banana you showed above?
Calalily, I have to get out into my jungle this weekend and help the Rangoon Creeper back onto the fence. It’s having its spring growth spurt and starting to creep and wrap itself around anything in proximity. Rangoon Creeper is a lovely plant. QuisQualis is its Latin name. Grows like mad here on the Texas gulf coast.
I’ve seen lots of you lovely plants posted on DG too. I think you are probably as big as enthusiast as I am.
The banana in my photo is just a neighborhood garden variety 'nanner.. They multiply like crazy. We all dig up the extra's and put them on the curb with a "free" sign.
Thanks, I have a little Rangoon, it was planted under what I think is an elm tree(still small) and I was afraid it would overwhelm it, so I moved it to the fence.
Don't the nanas multiply fast?? My neighbor and I have been planting them along the property lines(with room to drive a car between the rows in case we need to get back there). We are using them for wind breaks. We have a cavendish type(not dwarf) that grows everywhere and people just pull them up and put them out by the street here too.
Susan......wonderful night shots!! I'm gonna have to pick up The Evening Garden by Peter Loewer.
Rylaff.......the Ti plants to great for me under shade and part sun. They are great. Always wonderful color year round.
Mel.....I'll send you a nightbloomer cactus,,,,,,they are worth setting an alarm clock for 2 am and getting you out there....they are amazing.
Thanks to all for all the kind comments.....and get out there and take photos at night....I'd like to see'em all.
Ric
MiniSchnuz.......the banana is an AE AE its prized for its amazing variegation.
ricfl and NightBloomer:
Your gardens are beautiful.
Thanks delecie, Mel, and everyone else! The garden is just so much fun and rewarding.
I don't want to go to work either..... I want to come to YOUR Garden
Why, why, why, why, WHY do I live in zone 6? Booo hooo hooo!!
All of the pics and plants are just beautiful!!
Badseed, I have driven through Cinci in the fall when the leaves were changing. It was absolutely beautiful. Us zone 9-10 folks don't get that lovely change of season.
I shiver when the temperature drops below 70.
Susan
Both of your gardens are spectacular!!!
I would worry about having to cut down the nanner after it produces nanners and dis the Rangoon Creeper.
One of my favorite things to do at night is follow scents wafting in the breeze....and trip over roots, rocks etc.! I have a H. cumingiana with 10 7' vines hanging outside, in full bloom. Night is wonderful!!
Carol