March 14, 2007

Despite the lack of rain this year, plants still grow vigorously in Miami. They just do not flower as well. Of course, weeds need nothing to grow violently at will and are always a nuisance, but flowers, they need a bit of help from the human touch, and can flourish. The deficit in rain fall thus far has sparked a water ration in Miami. People can only water their lawn on designated 3 days each week and only in the early hours of morning.

The yellow oncidium orchid is perhaps 20 year old, just hung under a branch of the live oak tree on which a stag horn fern has been growing for also two decades. The bush of Heliconia Rostrata on the right hand side is spectacular when its flowers come out next month. The other color patches are seasonal impatiens, the queens of the shades, and they need a lot of water.