We bought these beautiful and fragrant flowers yesterday at the flower concession in the local supermarket. Looks and smells nice. Click on the image to enlarge.
Flowers
Pink Oleander Flowers
The house down the road had a bunch of oleander border plants. I was out walking the dogs when I noticed the pink blooms on one of the bushes. I walked back to the house, got my camera and headed back to take this photo of the pretty pink flowers. Click on the image to enlarge.
Devil’s Tongue Orange Flowers
Late in the season, but this devil’s tongue barrel cactus is displaying some wonderful orange flowers. Click on the image to enlarge.
Daisies in Fall Colors
I bought two bunches of daisies yesterday and arranged them in a vase in the great room. I guess fall is really here in Arizona, although the daytime temperatures are in the mid nineties while the nights get down to the low sixties. My Pride of Barbados flowers are mostly gone and the shrub is going dormant. I will miss them until next June when they come back for the summer. Click on the image to enlarge.
Stargazer Asian Lily
I bought six stems of stargazers yesterday at the flower concession at the supermarket. I am not disappointed in the first of the flowers to emerge last night. Click on the image to enlarge.
Crassula Falcata
Sadly, I can’t seem to get this to grow in Arizona, although “they” say it is possible. On this trip to California, the timing was right to enjoy this beautiful cluster of flowers with a nice delicate fragrance. Click on the image to enlarge.
Crassula falcata, known by the common names airplane plant and propeller plant, is a succulent plant endemic to South Africa, from the Cape of Good Hope. The foliage is gray-green with striking texture, on plants that grow to 2 feet tall. The flowers are tiny and scarlet red, that rise in dense clusters above the foliage for a month in summer. Crassula falcata is cultivated for use in drought tolerant and succulent gardens, and in container gardens.
Cimarron Sage
While we were still living in California we often visited the desert. We had a condo timeshare in Palm Desert years ago and would have it to ourselves in the summertime because none of our partners could stand the heat. We also took vacations which would bring us to most of the southwestern desert states. We always enjoyed the desert vegetation, especially the flowering shrubs and sage.
We tried growing the Red Bird of Paradise and purple sage (aka Texas Ranger Sage, Cimarron sage) at our California house near the coastline, but to no avail. Now that we’re here in our Arizona retirement home, all of the above and more thrive here and provide us with colorful and, in some cases, fragrant flowers. The Cimarron Sage along the driveway have erupted with glorious and fragrant purple flowers.
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