Welcome - come take a virtual walk with me down a garden path -
This patch of bird beak heliconias has been blooming for months - if you look close, you can see the eaves of the garage behind them... there's a large parking area there, too, but that's impossible to see.
We have many types of heliconias in the garden - ginger and bananas are in the botanical family, as well as this bizarre flower:
Here's another photo of it, which (hopefully) will give you a better idea of it's size - and how close to the ground it grows... that white thing is a 1/2 inch tube ... while the flowers are close to the ground, the plant is taller than I am:
This is a corner Maria, our gardener, and I are currently working on:
And this is the path we're walking:
This plant 'volunteered itself' ... in other words, no one has any idea where it came from, but it's certainly interesting - this is the back view of it -
And this is the front of the flower ... I've never seen anything exactly like it, before.
Actually, I'm not surprised when plants move into the garden - plants grow EVERYWHERE on the edge of the rainforest - that odd lump on the right is a rock:
This is the back of that rock and that plant on the left is an orchid - actually several of our rocks are covered with the small, native orchids.
Even the tree trunks are covered with other plants - and yes, that's yet another orchid covered rock next to it:
And here is another rocky view - that odd football looking thing in the upper right hand corner is a banana blossom (and yes, it actually is about the size of a football - the rock is about the size of a VW Beetle.
So, that's it for today's garden tour ... it's wet season and I need to keep the camera dry.
