Tropical Flowers - Garden Photos

A photo tour of tropical plants and flowers - come see the tropical flower beauties in my Florida garden. The plants are all thriving in this sauna called summer in Florida. I'm withering in the heat, but I ventured out with my camera this morning right after the rain. 

Greeting us right by the garden gate is this fiery bloom.

It's a dwarf royal poinciana variety -

it produces flowers all summer long into fall.

Isn't it stunning? Like an explosion of fiery oranges and bright yellows.

It loves the heat and will freeze in the cold.

See the little green bug in the flower? Those guys are all over the garden, apparently they like to munch on leaves.

I garden organically, so unless he is a real menace I don't even hunt and destroy.

The pretty blue plumbago loves the steamy summer heat too.

I have an entire row of bushes planted around our seating area which need no attention whatsoever.

The bushes can get to six foot tall.

Here is one of my favorites - my jasmine tree, it will get 12 feet tall.

The scent is slightly spicy, the more it rains the more it blooms.

The dark green leathery thick leaves are a nice backdrop to the white flower clusters and the bees love it too.

A blackberry lily - I love the markings - they look so exotic.

Over in the veggie garden, the marigold self seeded itself in the tomato pot and now I have a whole pot of gold - marigold that is. I know it's not a tropical flower, but hey - it's pretty:)

Here is a shot of my white wedding hibiscus.

The blooms look like Frangipani, but this is a tall and very slim plant, never wider than a foot or two. (will get up to ten feet tall.) Another easy care plant which flowers profusely all summer long.

The crepe myrtles are all in full bloom. I forgot to photograph the pink and lavender ones we have. I'll post some in my photo gallery later.

Delicious scent, slightly sweet, slightly perfumed, but flowery fresh - not heavy.

No open blooms here, but you can see the pink buds of a moschus malva. The blooms are hot pink and huge, the size of your hand.

I do need to get up early one morning next week to weed. It's too hot during the day for me to work in the garden.

As you can see, one of my gargoyles, (hell dog), is about to be smothered by weeds.

Our neighbor has a pretty tropical hibiscus - don't you agree?

A wild vine on our fence - I usually let it grow, because I like the yellow flowers.

The rain made it almost translucent.

Oh - and look, here is a pretty garden visitor - just resting on a leaf.

I wonder what kind of butterfly he is? 

That brings us back to the beginning to that gorgeous fiery beauty.

But, I still have a couple more tropical flowers to share with you.

Frangipani or Plumeria - you know, the Lei flower of Hawaii.

They exude a lovely scent in the evening.

We have several ixorias blooming everywhere - they enjoy the rain too, especially since we never water them due to the Florida draught - water restrictions.

In this picture, you can see the outline of my garden arch

a new garden addition this year.

One of today's Hibiscus blooms. A tropical bush, carefree and evergreen, delighting us with new flowers every day. 

I've noticed it has three cycles when it blooms the most - in Jan/Feb and then in June/July and again in Sep/Oct.

It's getting hot, I'll be heading in for a cool drink - thanks for looking!

I hope you have enjoyed your photo tour of my tropical garden!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

All images © Rose H.