Hibiscus Pictures From Ft Lauderdale, FL May 1- May 7, 2009

Here are some Hibiscus photos from the past week starting with a Day 3 bloom on Hibiscus "Northern Light" facing the Southern Skies.

Hibiscus "Symphony"

Hibiscus "Berried Treasure" accompanied by Daylily "Absolute Treasure"

Hibiscus "Misbehavin" at nightfall.

Hibiscus "Gypsy King"

Hibiscus "Nightfire"

Hibiscus "Cinnamon Girl"

Hibiscus "Simple Pleasures"

Hibiscus "Mr Ace"

Hibiscus "Big Boss"

Hibiscus "Fifth Dimension"

And lastly (nothing to do with hibiscus) its Echinacea (Coneflowers) "Harvest Moon" on the left and "Tiki Torch" on the right.

Jon

I have many of your hibiscus pictured here on my wish list. Hopefully some day I can get my own, and soon. Can we say Mother's Day gift ideas? lol
beautiful pics Jon!

I never get tired of looking at them.. I had a single yellow bloom on my GV plant today.. such a huge plant to have only a single bloom.

Thanks much. A would say a Hibiscus plant is a great gift for Mothers Day that keeps on giving. I'm sure you'll get an explosion of blooms on your plant very soon Tammie. Sometimes they all go into a "quiet" stage. It's just part of their growing cycle.
Jon

I can vouch that hibiscus make a great Mother's Day present. I just ordered 5 from Matt at The Hibiscus Place for my Mother's Day present. He's mailing them out the early part of next week--I can't wait. These are my first mail order tropical hibiscus.

Jon, these pictures are wonderful. I've always admired Nightfire from pictures on the web and thought I'd like to add a deep purple/deep pink to my want list. You have several there that are really striking colors that I don't normally like but they sure are pretty (Cinnamon Girl & Big Boss). I also like the one you took at nightfall. Would love to see a shot of all your hibbies by the poolside. You can barely see a glimpse of it in a couple of pictures.

Curious to know how old your echies are? Is this the first season you've had them? I hear that those cultivars are hard to grow or rather don't do well and often don't come back the next year. I've admired them, but haven't wanted to spend the money cause I don't always have good luck with echineceas.

Here's my first pink daylily 'Tootsie Rose'. What a name for such a pretty colored day lily. I do believe it will get better shaped with age; this is its first bloom for me.

TGIF!!!!!!!!!!!

Patty

Check out this prettiest little thing in pink; Hannah Grace, my niece. She's 5 mos. old. Her mom & dad are already teaching her to love the outdoors.

That's a nice daylily Patty. I'm finally starting to appreciate Daylilies and may have to add a few more outside. I only have 5 different varieties right now. Those Echinacea (Coneflowers) are starting in on their second year down here in South Florida. Even though it's early in the season they seem to be doing better this year compared to last. They did die back some at the beginning of the winter and stayed quiet and kind of looked sad for a couple of months. Most all of them started up again in March with new growth.

Jon

amorecuore like aways, your hibiscus look just gorgeous, I love them all but like every one else, have some favorites like that "Mr Ace" Love that soft color, and "Gypsy King" with its strong fire red color, "Fifth Dimension" and "Misbehavin" with those wonderful color combination, just fantastic. thank you for posting "Northern Light", I finally have the name of one of my first hibiscus I purchase that didn't have a name to it.

phughes, that little flower you call Hannah Grace is just beautiful, she reminds me of my little boy when he was her age, God bless her for ever and keep her like her name, In Grace.

Wilfred

Thank you Wilfred; that is a very nice thing you said about out little angel.

Not sure where to post these so just adding them to this topic. A couple of non-Hibiscus photos from today. Here is Butterfly "Zebra Long Wing"....the official butterfly of the State Of Florida.

And one other from today is Butterfly "Orange Long Wing". A butterfly found mostly in South Florida.

very pretty.. how excited were you to be taking the picture of the Orange Long Wing? LOL

Thanks Tammie. The Orange Long Wing was practically impossible to get a good picture of since it just about never stops/lands for more than a half a second. I always see many butterflies in the mornings around the yard, but just during the morning for some reason. The other attractions around here in the mornings are the birds landing and drinking out of my watering containers, neighbors riding through the neighborhood on golf carts and my neighbor feeding and then petting, yes petting, one of the neighborhood squirrels. This can be a strange place at times.
Jon

How fun.. I have a baby dove in my yard right now.. lets me get about 2 ft away.. so far my cat has left it alone... hummingbirds and the grackles keeping the grasshopper populaton down feding their babies in the trees next door. I occasionally see a squirrel.. maybe about once a month. Rarely a butterfly. Saw a hummer checking out the hibiscus today.

We must have hummingbirds here, but I've never seen one. They sell the feeders, etc, and I put one up last year in the summer but never saw any. I'm not sure if they're here year round or perhaps just in the winter. I've never seen a grasshopper here either. I see tons of geckos, an occasional iguana, quite a few ibis and wild parrots. There's also a stray goat that lives up the street in a vacant lot that stands by the side of the road often. You will occasionally see someone riding a horse on the side of the street also as there are quite a few horses in this small suburb west of Ft Lauderdale called "Plantation Acres".
Jon

Don't you just love butterflies. I hardly ever get butterflies in my yard, but I've already had a couple of hummingbirds on my porterweed. I had a small mockingbird nest in my potted ficus. It had an egg in it and we were watching it, waiting for it to hatch, but the darn wind knocked the ficus over and the egg went kaput.

I am always amazed that the Grackle population is able to be such a huge problem here since they lose so many eggs and babies to stupidity. I have picked up 5 broken eggs out of my yard already this year and will pick up many more dead baby birds as I do every year and I don't have ANY trees in my yard.. 3 tall pines next door.. that is ALL the trees nearby that they can nest in! Go figure how many eggs they must have to lay to be successful!

I have 3 hummingbird feeders up.. all need refilling frequently.. it takes a LOT of sugar in them. We do no have a lot of things that bloom around here but there must be enough to support the hummer population and I do my best to keep them happy. Now that I know they investigate hibiscus.. I will do even more to provide more blooms. That was so fun to see him going to each of those 7 blooms I had yesterday.

My BIL & SIL had grackles in their trees right outside their bedroom window. They were so loud it would wake them up. He found the best fix was a fire cracker, but he only did it once cause he was afraid the neighbors wouldn't appreciate it. I don't know what he does now.