Yellow Enumeration

I have been telling you a few times, or yes i admit it is nearly complaining, that sometimes i get bored with our orange and red colors. It is not actually the flowers, i must clarify, but the colors! Seeing them all the time somehow saturates our brain, or maybe the emotion through our eyes. So i deliberately chose other colors in one post, now it is the yellow. It is surprizing that we have a lot of them too. These are actually just some of them, i still remember some that are not flowering these days. They might not be exceptionally unique, but putting them in isolation like this, separated from the orange and reds, make them somehow special.

This Hoya buotii has been blooming in our care for two years. It gives a few blooming peduncles, then rest a few weeks and then bloom again. It is a very lovely hoya for me, although it only lasted for 3 days. 

Hoya crassicaulis also produces a very lovely umbel. The individual flowers might not be as big as the Hoya buotii, but the umbel tends to be very full into an almost perfect sphere. Moreover, it gives a very sweet subtle lemony scent that attracts me as well as the bees, ants and moths.

This is a not so open yet cosmos, Cosmos bipinnatus

 and who will forget the yellow hibiscus? It has wide blooms as big as a saucer!

 Turnera subulata is almost a fixture now in our gardens. It is hot and drought tolerant, so we always see them around. It competes with the oranges and reds. And if not properly regulated, it tends to be invasive in our area. The seeds are scattered around and wait till the rains come. This will be with us for a long time to give the yellows more prominence.

This might be considered an outlier, exception to the group, but it is wanted around. If only we can multiply them faster, then our scale insect problems will be finished.

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