It's Tropical, Of Course.

The plant, that is.  Here is last year's poinsettia that we put in the ground sometime in February and just let it do it's thing. I don't know why I'm getting such a thrill that it's coming into blossom.

 

I guess because in my Northern Life, poinsettias post-Christmas became spindley and leafless and ended up in the compost by May.  I had forgotten that poinsettias are a wild-growing shrub in Mexico.  I know they will not tolerate a frost, so I'm not sure this one will survive a Central Florida winter.  So far we've been spared -- it's 68 degrees here this morning. 

 



 

A couple of new plants I've put out on the patio - we had a few showers last night - diamonds on poinsettias - pretty.



 

 

 

--cds