I decided to join the Six on Saturday meme at The Propagator’s blog this week. I live and blog in South Florida. Having been down here a while, I still think a lot of the flora is weird but cool. Here are six tropicals blooming in my garden this week:
Flaming Torch Bromeliad. A common and colorful addition to our late summer gardens.
Billbergia pyramidalis.
Beautyberry, a native shrub with magnificent fruit.
Calliocarpa americana. 
One of my very favorite Bromeliads, reliable and so funky. And a great cut flower.
Aechmea miniata.
Late summer brings Cattleya Orchids to the garden, the next ones will be huge, white and fragrant. These grow in my neighbor’s Hong Kong Orchid (Bauhinia) tree.
Another common summer flowering Bromeliad. Little Harv.
Aechmea ‘Little Harv’
More Florida funkness, this is a Jatropha – called Coral Plant usually and considered a novelty, flowering off and on all summer.
Jatropha multifida.
Happy Gardening Saturday and thanks to The Propagator for hosting.
The Shrub Queen 
Lucky you – all those exotic plants and flowers! Lovely!
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Thank you, summer weather goes with them..
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Just so you know. It’s 77 degrees and raining here. Lovely photos as usual Queen.
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Thanks, Flower. It is overcast and 86 here. 77 sounds divine. Four inches of rain expected here shortly.
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Wow. We have had storms about every night. I was so ready for some cool. I am too old to be hot. Ha!
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I am also too old to be hot, but here we are. Found the most amazing fungus for you. Will take some pictures.
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You know I think Fugus is fun.
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I know, and I will have a happy fungus surprise!
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Gorgeous exotics as always theshrubqueen
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Tropical wonders! I really like the Jatropha multifida’s cool leaves.
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For me, the weirder the better. I thought plants were very different here, but you’ve got me beat. We are at 95 plus with no rain in my area. The clouds literally split when they get close. I noticed trees are starting to die.
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I like the weird as well. Some people just can’t deal with it! We just hit 11.5 inches of rain with more in the forecast. I hope a nice slow rain falls at your house.
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Is beautyberry tropical?! I thought it grew farther north as well.
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No, it grows to Zone 6 in the east. The berries are not as plentiful further north for some reason.
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Perhaps is prefers the milder winters. How odd. I thought that it would prefer more pronounced seasons. That is partly why I dismissed it earlier.
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it is very odd, the Beautyberry here grows in nearly full sun -it would not survive that further north.
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That’s even weirder, unless it is the humidity that makes them more tolerant to the warmth. (I don’t know, but it seems to me that northern climates get a few days with less humidity.)
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I agree! I have been astonished by the berries here.
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Gorgeous.
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Thank you, remind you of Jamaica?
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Yes. You know it!
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I have Papayas on my tree! Just changing from green to yellow.
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