It has been a long couple of weeks of daily rain; tropical
storm Hermine passed south of us but her effects lasted for days. Today is the first sunny day with no
forecast of rain and this morning the rain lilies decided to make an
appearance.
Not much gardening this week, the rain limited the time
outside. I updated a couple of beds in
the front of the house.
Update on Zika
Last week the Miami Beach botanical garden closed its door
and decided to pull out all their bromeliad plants, the garden is located
within the Zika designated area. This
is worrisome for me; my garden is about 40% bromeliads. If this disease gets out of control I can
see, how the state will mandate the removal of all bromeliad plants from local
gardens. They did it before with citrus
trees when canker threaten the citrus industry, this time the consequences are
much more costly especially to unborn children.
So why am I planting more bromeliads? Because I don’t like to throw away any of my
extra plants.
I hope you all have a peaceful and restful LABOR DAY.
4 comments:
Oh, that is horrible about pulling out all the bromeliads. They are such a perfect plan for Florida. Yikes, I hope it doesn't come to that. We are still feeling the effects of Hermine since last Thursday. We desperately needed the rain and we got very little wind and virtually no damage. That's what you call a 'good hurricane.' Love your rain lilies and they really set off St. Francis. Perfect!
Try getting some mosquito bits to sprinkle in your bromeliad "cups" It is supposed to be environmentally sound.
jan in ocala
Ooh, I think the pulling out of bromeliads is a bad idea and jumping the gun. Considering the state is losing many of its native bromelaids to the weevil, I find even pulling them out of gardens is misguided. Mosquitoes live EVERYWHERE in Florida, pulling bromeliads is just a drop in the bucket.
Your rain lilies are beautiful!
I agree pulling out the bromeliads will be extreme, but I don't trust the state of Florida they tend to overreact. They did during the citrus canker crisis.
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