Bob Mays
@bobwmfl
🏳️🌈 (he/him) Husband, father, grandfather, gardener, reader, mostly-retired accountant, former potter, South Floridian by way of WV, proud liberal Democrat!
I was excited to find this crop of #acorns on our young #FloridaNativePlant #LaurelOak (Quercus laurifolia) “planted” by a squirrel. We have watched the tree grow for years and now the descendants of that first squirrel will be able to live off the nuts. #CircleOfLife 🌱 #Trees #OakTrees #MyGarden
The morning sun was highlighting these #Vanda #Orchids blooming now in #MyGarden 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling #Orchid. (Lost tag)
Another bright lemony-yellow #Vanda #orchid blooming now in #MyGarden. Sorry, no-ID. 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling #Orchids
Another heat-and-humidity-loving #Vanda #orchid blooming now in #MyGarden. The tag is gone but l 'think' it's Vanda Crownfox Golden Dawn. 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling #Orchids
These colorful potted #Coleus are brightening up the patio today in #MyGarden. 🌱 #Plants #Foliage #Gardening #GardenColors
Brassavola nodosa #orchid blooming today in #MyGarden. The flowers emit an extremely strong, sweet fragrance at night. This one is growing on a small #FloridaNativePlant Joewood tree (Jacquinia keyensis). 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling #MyGarden #Orchids
The #Vanda #Orchids love this hot, humid summer weather! This is one of several blooming now in #MyGarden. (No-ID) 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #Gardening #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling #Orchid
Blooms very much like these were the beginning of my love of #Orchids. (Long-lost tag) #MyGarden. 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #Gardening #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling #Orchid #Vanda
Colorful and fragrant Rhynchorides Bangkok Sunset blooming now in #MyGarden. 🌱 #Orchids #Plants #Flowers #Gardening #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling #Orchid
A no-ID Papillionanda #orchid blooming today in #MyGarden. 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling #Orchids
Bees on palm blossoms, last week in Akumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico. 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling #Bees #Insects
Royal Poinciana (Delonix regia) blossoms seen in Akumal, Mexico. 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling
More #plumerias! These are called ‘Key West Red.’ 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling #MyGarden #Plumeria
This is the decoration on a bowl I got on my only visit to the big island 15 years ago.
Our version of 4th of July fireworks! Blood Lily (Scadoxus multiflorus) 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling #MyGarden #IndependenceDay #Fireworks
A beautiful Vanda #Orchid blooming today in #MyGarden. This one is Vanda John Ferrar 'George's Delight' AM/AOS (V. Srimahapro Star x Van. [Vasco.] Sasicha). 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling #MyGarden #Orchids
Our Vivi passed away today. He was a rescue, abandoned during Hurricane Wilma in 2005 on Ft Lauderdale beach. He was strong-willed, noisy, and sometimes obstinate, but was a loyal mate to Choko for at least the last 21 years, probably longer. #Pets #Birds #SunConures
Rain lilies (Zephyranthes subgenus Habranthus) blooming this morning in #MyGarden 3 days after the first significant rainfall of the season (.88 inch; 2.24 cm). They will repeatedly send up new blooms after every heavy rainfall this summer. 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling #Lilies
I can’t get enough of these #plumeria blossoms, shown here in the fading light of the golden hour. And the spicy fragrance is intoxicating. 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling #MyGarden
Our garden club has placed hundreds of these Florida native #Orchids in local parks as part of Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden’s Million Orchid Project, an effort to re-establish native orchids in South Florida. These are both Encyclia tampensis, with the alba variety shown on the right. 🌱 #Orchid
#Lichens growing on the trunk of a Royal Palm tree in a nearby park. 🌱 #Trees #Fungi #Algae #FloridaNativePlant #BeautyInNature
Native milkweed (Asclepius perennis) blooming this morning in #MyGarden. Monarch #Butterfly caterpillars will soon completely defoliate these plants, then the leaves will grow back again and the cycle will repeat. 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling #FloridaNativePlant #Butterflies
Rain lilies! (Habranthus robustus) 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling #MyGarden
It’s that time of year when the Royal Poinciana trees (Delonix regia) are in full bloom-such a vivid color! This one is around the corner from our house, but there are scores of these #trees all around the area. Be sure to tap the image to get the full effect🌱 #Flowers #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling
A colorful corner of #MyGarden this morning. Blood lilies (Scadoxus multiflorus) and vinca. 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling
A beautiful little #Vanda #orchid blooming today in #MyGarden. This one has an amazingly strong, sweet fragrance. The afternoon sunlight is making the blooms glow. Vanda Motes Multiverse (2678 Vanda Philippe Christophe xV. insignis) 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling #MyGarden #Orchids
The view from the #FrontPorchSwing this evening. 🌱 #Plumeria #CoconutPalm #HappyHour #MargaritaTime #Plants #Flowers #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling #MyGarden #BlueSky
Multiple #Atala #butterflies (Eumaeus atala) emerging today from their chrysalises hanging from its only host plant, the #FloridaNativePlant #coontie (Zamia integrifolia), the only native #cycad in the continental US. Atalas were once thought to be extinct. 🌱 #Plants #Insects #Butterfly #MyGarden