Over the last year Margaret has greatly expanded our back garden with many “Florida native” plants, including a number of milkweed plants that attract Monarch butterflies – and we now see the evidence with lots of leaves eaten, and four or five caterpillars. Not great for the plants, but good for the butterflies!
A walk down to Newton Park showed us a couple of Alligators, and a LOT of lilies in flower!
It’s the end of May, we have loads of sunshine, and the rain is about to start coming frequently. Meanwhile all the plants in our front garden are growing well, and Margaret’s newer plantings in the back are starting to establish themselves too. Time for more photos …
This is the front garden, with amazing agave plants and beautiful but tiny purple flowers of sensitive mimosa; see too how the spider plant is spreading from its pot out into the rest of the garden …
In the back garden, all the plants are smaller (except the giant sunflowers now much taller than me!) …
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