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Passionfruit Flower
I have high hopes this flower will soon be pollinated and become a fruit. The variety I have in the garden is the yellow type. Apparently there is a purple type but I haven’t seen any yet. I love having “lilikoi”(Hawaiian name for passion fruit) in my garden. The fruits I gather can be made…
Shell Ginger
I like taking pictures of flowers especially ginger flowers. Some are red, some are pink, some are blue and some are white. I particularly like the shell ginger because of the unusual shape reminiscent of a shell hence the name. I like it so much I painted them too. I actually bought some specimens of…
Nasturtiums
Nasturtium is grown mostly for their beautiful, assorted color flowers. I’ve seen mostly yellow and orange sometimes pink but I have never seen a deep red mahogany color until now. I bought the seeds from a nursery and immediately sowed them. I placed them in a hanging planter hoping to see flowers trailing when it…
Poinsettia
Poinsettia is well known as a Christmas plant maybe because it changes color during the Christmas Holidays or winter. This poinsettia was from last year’s Christmas and I just took care of it up to now and I noticed the leaves are changing color. I did not do anything special really. Basically watering it diligently…
Lantana
On my way to church last Sunday I came across these little purple flowers called Lantana. The profusion of flower clusters really caught my attention. Lantana belongs to the verbena family of perennial plants. They are called honey plants because the bees like them so are the butterflies especially swallowtail butterflies. Even birds like them…
Puakenikeni
I did not know anything about puakenikeni flowers until my daughter requested a lei made of this fragrant flowers to send to her on her birthday. She was working in Las Vegas at the time. So I went looking in every florist shops but nobody seemed to have it. Her birthday month is January and…