Night Bloomers

I counted 9 night bloomer flowers tonight from my Dragonfruit tree

Welcome, first day of fall

 The calendar tells us that today is the first day of fall, but the weather outside has not changed much. I prefer to be positive and hope that cooler days are coming.  Today I decorated my front door with the colors of the season.

This week my gardener came to cut the grass and trimmed the trees in the front of the house.  Not long ago that would have been my job, but Father Time keeps telling me that there is no shame in hiring someone else to do it. 

Before

After

Looking for fall in humid and wet South Florida

Here we are in the middle of September, and our weather continues to be like if it was the middle of July.  It has rained in Miami every day for the last two weeks; it feels like we are living in Seattle.  My garden has been wet all the time and the ground is so saturated that gardening is not an option.  All this rain makes the jungle grow and the dragon fruit flowers are not complaining.   

This week at the DragonFly Garden:

I don’t have too many flowers in the garden this week.  Some of the orchid plants have flowers, the lady of the night is full of flowers (the aroma at night is magnificent) and I have several Blue Tango bromeliads around the garden.

I purchased a new water fountain for the garden.  I have two water fountains, one in the back garden and the other on the side garden.   These fountains last an average of two to three years, last week the big fountain in the back broke, I was lucky that Lowes had all fountains on clearance (end of the season sale ha – ha).  The old broken fountain will become a new planter in the vegetable garden.

Time to make the winter vegetable garden!!!

Today I cleared out all the weeds from the vegetable garden and turned the soil over.  Later this month, I will add compost to the soil.  The garden should be ready for planting in early October. Last year was not a very productive year, so this year I will be making some changes to the choices of vegetables, herbs plants and the mixtures.

Before

While clearing the vegetable beds, I found this family of opossums living in one the block squares.  I did not disturbed the little guys, hopefully they will move on in a couple of days.  I was reading that opossums are very misunderstood creatures, they are not harmful and will not disturb the garden.  

Free bromeliads for anyone to take.

The summer rains continue and so are the rain lilies.