Thank you Ibis!
I love that Lady Margaret! Pretty color Gaillardias. I dunno, you think it's a coleus? The stem is right but then there are lots of things with stems like that. I do the same thing with plants, not wanting to cut off the blooms so I wait too long to prune & promise "next time".

Ibis! Your Adenium is gorgeous! I will not trim it too if it is mine. Beautiful collection! The volunteer maybe a "lantana"? Not sure.

I had to chuckle about getting plants out of trash cans. I'm in the Keys on vacation and visited a couple nurseries looking for bromeliads, found nothing. Driving back I saw many had yard waste out by the curb and kept my eyes peeled for broms :)

All the dessert roses are so beautiful, there is one I see in Port Orange at a house I drive by that is as tall as the roof, which suprises me since it can get to freezing. One day I'll get a snapshot of it.

I walk around my neighborhood the night before garbage pick-up day, hoping to see someone getting rid of some broms - no luck yet, but I still have hope

We managed to plant our new yellow tabebuia tree (So now our vast desert wasteland of a front yard now has a single 6' tall stick in it at least). Repotted some red milkweed and purple firespike last night that we just received. Also, a bunch of pentas that have been begging to be repotted, finally have been. At least I don't feel like I'm a slacker quite so much anymore!

The yellow tabebuia's are so eye-catching in the spring! Love them!

It will be beautiful, Scot. Watch your new plants this month for drying out - May is so sunny and hot and we can go weeks without rain. How about a picture? Then you can update us on its progress through the summer.

My neighbor has a huge patch of Xanthosoma (big Elephant Ears!) growing in the ditch in front of her house. When I asked her if I could have a start she said "Wow, it's nice to be asked! Most people just help themselves." I saw a couple of broms "fly" off a landscaper's truckload of prunings a few days ago. Had to turn around to go look for them, and by the time I got back somebody else had scooped them up, darnit. No more than 40 seconds . . . Ours is not a snowbird neighborhood, except for the condo complex 'way down the street, but out on Siesta Key I've seen some nice looking plants in the trash at the roadsides.

Yes Scott, let's see some photos so we can celebrate the growth down the road.
I agree with Elaine about watching the new plants to make sure they don't dry out.

Okay, picture time, but you have to excuse the untrimmed hedges! This is all I have but next time I'll get better pictures.

The yellow tabebuia.


And just for grins here's the milkweed.

The tabebuia will grow in no time. Your milkweed are bigger than mine.
This time of year onward hedges can whup you to trim. Too bad they don't grow in winter & stay the same height & width in summer. Trimming them in winter would be a piece of cake.

As my dad said, "Just a flesh wound." It'll grow back!

True.

See, they grow back.

I went all over looking for milkweed and a couple more butterfly bushes. Zip....never couldnt get milkweed at HD.

Im so tired of finding dead lizards,,a la dogs. I feel its a victory when I see a tailless one

Hi All, I'm back from our two weeks down in the Keys, was pretty dry down there so most plants looked a bit stressed. I enjoyed riding my bike around and looking at all the lush tropical foliage. It is something to see how big plants can get when they don't freeze.
I went to every garden center I saw and bought nothing, I didn't see anything any different than I can buy here. My middle son went with us this year, he treated me to the butterfly conservatory in Key West for Mother's day, I spent a good two hours in there, posted some butterfly pics from there.

Good news is I got home and have two flowers starting on my Plumeria, the first time it has flowered for me since I bought it three years ago

Sherri, what a treat! I posted a link on the butterfly thread so everyone can come over and drool all over your gorgeous pictures. And now I have to go find out what that first one is that looks like a Luna Moth but is a different color. So cool!

Google is my friend! It appears to be this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

You are correct Mellie, I did get the name of the moth, unfortunately I don't know all the butterflies, they were about to close and we couldn't go through that part of the conservatory. That moth was as big as my hand, quite impressive.

I needed a dose of happy today and my Hibiscus 'Fort Myers Yellow" obliged. Hope you enjoy it, too!