October blooms...salvaged!

I have not been fully posting here for two weeks, I've browsed and commented on a few blogs, but that's it. As much as I would like to post, my time didn't allow me to. Besides, i spent most wanted hours commuting from a place where i stayed for 2 weeks, these important hours lost mostly in traffic. I wish i had gadgets for posting while in transit. It is better if I go home to the province because WiFi are already common provisions in buses. But I still don't like lugging laptop on the road, as I still have my camera and other things for home. Better be content watching the greenery along the highways, or the white cattle egrets near their favored friend, the cow or carabao.

Then i realized it is the 15th today, OMG, I want to post for the GBBD! I have not been doing it for a while. I am a bit disappointed because I suddenly realized my external drive was left at home. Again OMG, i do not have, as in my computer has nothing because it has gone to the IT staff for the last two weeks I've been away. It was re-formatted and my documents and photos are nowhere to be found. They are in my external drive left at home. Oh great, my other new external drive which has some photos is inside my office bag. Good, I can salvage some photos. Please bear with me with these, i need to join the GBBD!

I will start with the white petunia, their stems got lanky during our dry season, but still produce some flowers. I only have the white and the lavender but they provide some fun too, notwithstanding very common. By the way, it is the first time for me to plant this in our garden as it is not good in very hot climes.

 This Chrysothemis pulchelia easily grows, but the beauty depends on the type of soil. Bronzy-green large leaves grow from soils rich in organic matter, and ours are like that. But after flowering profusely the plants become used up and becomes not so pleasant to the sight.

 Maybe some of you will remember my previous post when i pried open the still closed first leaf of this caladium. They don't produce leaves profusely as other colors, but the waiting pays, they are so beautiful. Only those three leaves are produced for more than 3 month, in contrast with the profusely growing other varieties.

 This is the gaillardia sent from the US by my blogging friend Lily of the Suburban Gardener. I planted it last dry season and continuously flowered starting from then. Even if the growths and flowering are not really as par as when planted in its original climate, those ants and I are enjoying them.

 The seed head of the gaillardia is lovely too. However, i didn't see any germination from my plantings, maybe the seeds are not self fertilized, so sterile.

 The extremely pruned blue Duranta erecta (syn. repens) is growing well and starting to produce the beautiful flowers. The butterflies love this very much. So if they are happy, I am happy too for the shoots i can do with the butterflies. I will not be chasing them too far as they want to linger around the duranta for the whole day.

 The red salvia, despite the small flowers, provide additional warmth here. Some butterflies love them too. The photo below are the still unopened salvia flowers.

 The red pentas do not still have many growing umbels, but the few opened ones already provide good food for the insects and butterflies.

 Asystasia intrusa easily recovers from pruning, and it is already blooming wildly again. However, they get so viny at once that I again intend to prune them. The bottom spike is the unopened Asystasia flowers.

 This marigold is already the 3rd generation of seeds sent from the US by another blogging friend, Skeeter. She is the partner of Tina in their blog, In the Garden. I realized that different blooms arise even from a single seed source. Last year we have the pom-pom type, but this time it is nowhere to be found. But they are resilient plants ensuring colors and beauty for the insects, although the butterflies do not like marigolds.

 a marigold bud i have to hold with the left and take photo with the right hand

 I love this flower tremendously! That is because this is the only tomato flower i can see around our area. It is a volunteer and i guess maybe a cherry tomato, a bit sour but good for our stews.

Maybe you will notice I only have two blue flowers here, the Duranta and this one. This is only a weed in our area but because I have the extreme bias for blue flowers, i have to include it here. Blues are for the temperate climes and reds are for us the hot tropics, but we love the blues too! This bloom has very thin and soft petals and remain open only for a few hours, this time it is already closing!

I thought i lack October photos to post, now realized there are still more. It really is different if you are in the tropics, you have a lot of plants simultaneously blooming, even if the garden is not as beautiful. What is the tropics for, if not for BIODIVERSITY!