I may be the one in Wonderland. After months of being “questionable for return from freeze damage” the normally all white “Miss Alice” Bougainvillea started producing purple flowers. Interestingly, this is a thornless (they use that term loosely) variety and the other so called thornless color is a purple called Silhouette. This leaves me wondering what happened?

We have had a strange weather year. Record cold followed by record heat and abundant rain. Rumor has is a cold front is headed our way, I hope so as my first batch of tomato and zinnia seedlings succumbed to an unknown black fungus and rabbit foraging.

Off with their heads perfectly describes my seedling situation. Sigh, life in the garden. I was so looking forward to those cherry tomatoes. Of course, a new set of seeds arrives this week!

The details:

The purple flower with the pink stem is a ‘Candy’ Portea Bromeliad, blooming a bit early. White and purple flowers are from “Miss Alice” Bougainvillea. Creamy spikes flowers are from the native Juba Bush (Iresine diffusa). The foliage is Cabbage Palm (Palmetto sabal) seedling fronds and Boston Ferns (Neprolepia exaltata); both of these just appear in the garden for no apparent reason.

That’s the news from my garden. Follow this link https://ramblinginthegarden.wordpress.com to visit Cathy and see what has been placed or plonked in a vase this Monday.