Gorgeous pictures, such wonderful blooms! Thanks for the great tour. It's all magazine-worthy.

Alfie for the photobomb win. :D

I'm only growing one bougie this year, in a hanging basket (blends in with the Crape behind it). That's a Hyacinth Bean vine in the one pot, and it Will. Not. Bloom. I've never, ever had this happen, in 20+ yrs of growing them. I've babied it, begged and pleaded with it, threatened it, ignored it ... nothing.

Most of my yard is looking very stressed ... so far, we haven't gotten the promised rain. It looks like it might be today, though.

These are my Profusion Zinnias that reseeded from last year (gaura and pink skullcap as neighbors):

Very tropical looking. Pink and coral bougies together look really good. Bougie is one plant I don't grow don't know why, weird! Adoring the rain.

Your blooms are all so beautiful! I also need to try a bougie.

....and a frog, and a crane. Very beautiful. I like plumerias but overwintering bougainvilleas is enough already.

Omar

Thanks everyone who looked and for your comments.

MizGG, your crape myrtles combined with your bougainvilleas really put on a show! Love the bright reseeding zinnias too! Thanks so much for your photos.

Omar, those Vulture/Eagle eyes have done it again. You're right on about the other figures.

Incidentally, the plumerias are uprooted and the bare trunks stored for the winter. There isn't room for the big pots in the greenhouse.

So what plants have benefited the most from the rain in your yard?

Oh my, it's pouring down rain again ...

Some upgrades: I had placed the blue and green bottles on existing branches. Yesterday Bob put long nails in the tree trunks to put up four more blue bottles ...

An old bird cage was hung in a new place. Sometimes when you move things around it's like you've never seen them before and you get to enjoy them all over again ...

The oval mirror that was here was broken by the hail. Replaced it with this ...

The wild oak leaf vine did it's own thing and grew on this bird cage giving it a cottage garden look I'm enjoying ...

Playing with stuff in the yard satisfies my creative urge so it's always changing. Who else likes to play around like this?

I like playing around like that and do move my garden art around when I redesign an area, but you are better at it than I am :-) Love everything, especially the birdcage and mirror. Why didn't I think of displaying the blue bottles from tree trunks? I have a pretty organized bottle tree, hubby built and used a jig to space and angle the screws into a big wood pole so it was very orderly and symmetrical (he's OCD like that) . I like your casual display a lot. I've got Malabar spinach from Carrie's garden growing up a garden cart, so pretty!

Roselee, I have an old birdcage that I plan to use on the garden, you're inspiring me to do it soon. Also love mirror idea.

here is Bianca, a brug with the daintiest flowers

Don't remember this type ginger

Emerald simething potato vine, a solid green

Aww, sweet lizards!

Bossyvossy, I think the ginger that you have is Shampoo Ginger, or Awapuhi in Hawaii. I had some growing in my back yard and I used to squeeze it and get stuff to wash my hair. I would go out into the back yard with my hair all wet and just wash my hair in the yard stooped over the plants. Zingiber zerumbet is its botanical name

SHAMPOO GINGER

More on AWAPUHI

I was weedling/cleaning the area this past w/end and remember sqiueezing one of the flowers. I gave serious thought to drinking it--flower was so juicy. I will try it. I remember back in the day using awapuhi shampoo by Paul Mitchell

Yepper's , that's the stuff. It does not foam up like regular shampoo, but it cleans and softens really nicely.

Mara, lookie here. I'll think about you when my hair is all bouncy and stuff

Here is Cranberry Crush hardy hibbie, pic taken under a black, menacing sky. Still doesn't show as dark as IRL

OK, so I washed my hair with the awapuhi nectar and it felt clean but use other potions so don't know which one takes credit for leaving me soft shiny hair. Anyway, I asked DH how my hair smelled and his reply was "it smells like plant". Gotta love him.....

LOL ... what would we do with out them.