Flower and Garden Festival Butterfly House

Well, this is actually just outside the Butterfly House, for Winnie the Pooh topiaries, but I just loved the color.

Amarillis is Blooming

My striped amarillis always blooms before my solid red ones.
Naval oranges are blooming up a storm, and the scent is heavenly all over the garden.

The Lavendar Lantana is back with new green foliage. They need to be kept trimmed to be managable in this bed.

Dogwood Blossoms Gone, Allergy Season on High

The Flowering Dogwood has leafed out this week, I hope that I captured some blossoms in photos since the show is only a few weeks long, but is breathtaking. (Our neighbors also have dogwoods in their front lawn and it just multiplies the effect).

Fruits are growing and look pretty even without the ripe gold color.

This here is an allergy nightmare set for next week. Ugg. I don't know why a certain magazine mentioned they were the South's lilacs, as they smell awful, attract bugs and cause havoc with my eyes!

Blooming in Northeast Florida - Camilla, Azalea, Dogwoods

Flowering Dogwood is a it's height, not a green tint anywhere in those bracts .... all snowy white right now. Cornus - Cornus florida


Coral Bells - Rhododendron (Azalea) - Kurume Hybrid


Camellia reticulata


Selection of Camellia japonica


Single Camellia japonica


Flowering Dogwood against the sky

Citrus Shopping on Sundays

We found a lovely little citrus nusery and on the weekend took the kids to experience it. It was beautiful and anyone in the south should spend at least one afternoon just smelling orange blossoms.

The proprietors were three older men, all different characters supported by Honey, the sweetest dog ever. They have have coloring sheets, Woodpeckers and juicers.

We found finding the information on citrus was fun, easy, enjoyable and wandering was magical.
The only difficult task was paying ... there was always another story, another variety, another rare bird that flew by. Paying meant we had to leave,and neither the customers nor the owners were pushing that along.

I recommend stopping by to slowly walk through this little grove of The Flying Dragon Citrus Nursery
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