Category Archives: Tropical Garden

POD ~ Giant Swallowtail Butterfly

By Ron | Published September 21, 2011

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A beautiful Giant Swallowtail Butterfly inspecting Bougainvillea blooms in our Tropical Garden on a recent afternoon.

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POD ~ Banana Blossom

By Ron | Published August 22, 2011

Banana Bloosom

A bloom on one of the many banana trees in our garden.

Banana hearts or blossoms are used as a vegetable in South Asian and Southeast Asian cuisine, either raw in a fresh salad or steamed with dips or cooked in soups, curries and fried foods. The flavor resembles that of artichoke. As with artichokes, both the fleshy part of the bracts and the heart are edible.

My Tropical Garden Prints Project is a portfolio of over two dozen images from our garden.

Leaves

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Tropical Garden ~ Update 3

By Ron | Published August 7, 2011

Several more new images have just been added to the Tropical Garden Print Project Collection. As you recall, this is a gallery of black and white botanical images, most of which will be from the tiny garden around our home. The project is ongoing in that I will be adding images throughout the year as the seasons change.

As I have said previously, this project is finding its own way. Images are added with no predetermined plan. I am enjoying the process and  have received much positive feedback from all of you. Thank you. Please continue to follow along by checking back often.

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POD ~ Orchid Bloom

By Ron | Published July 21, 2011

Orchid growing on palm tree

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The first bloom from an orchid happily growing on a cabbage palm tree in my garden. The parent of this plant has been growing and outgrowing pots for over ten years. I believe the offspring clinging to the palm tree, after a slow start, is going to be quite content.

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Tropical Garden ~ Update 2

By Ron | Published July 7, 2011

Bamboo

Six more images have been added to my Tropical Garden Prints Project. As you recall, this is a gallery of black and white botanical images, most of which will be from the tiny garden around our home. The project is ongoing in that I will be adding images throughout the year as the seasons change.

I don’t know exactly where this project will lead, but I hope you will come along by checking back every now and then.

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Tropical Garden ~ Update

By Ron | Published June 5, 2011

Bamboo

I have just added six new images to my Tropical Garden Prints Project. This is a gallery of black and white botanical images, most of which will be from the tiny garden around our home. The project is ongoing in that I will be adding images throughout the year as the seasons change.

I don’t know exactly where this project will lead, but I hope you will come along by checking back every now and then.

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Anoles Are Everywhere

By Ron | Published May 25, 2011

I was raised by a maid who came from Martinique
She wore geckos around her neck and bracelets on her feet
A superstitious woman from the land of sugar cane
She’d sing the sun to bed and dance out in the rain
Dance out, dance out, dance out in the rain

Jimmy Buffett

Anole

Anole

Anoles seem to be everywhere this time of year. And they are most welcome being our native pest control as they will eat spiders, cockroaches, ants, and other bugs. The brown Cuban anole is by far the most common in our garden. Anole lizards are frequently and incorrectly called American chameleons or geckos, although they are not closely related to either of those groups. In fact, they are more closely related to iguanas.

They are often quite curious. This fellow will watch me as I am taking photographs for the Tropical Garden Prints Project. In the above photo he is resting and watching from a shell fossil. Below, he is sunning on a dendrobium orchid cane.

Anole

Anole

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A Tropical Garden

By Ron | Published May 18, 2011

Bamboo

Much of my photography centers around travel, but there are many interesting subjects to be photographed right here at home. This is the geneses of my new Tropical Garden Prints Project which is starting today. I am creating a gallery of black and white botanical images, most of which will be from the tiny garden around our home. This will be an ongoing project in that I will be adding images throughout the year as plants bloom, bare fruit, and as seasons change.

Archival quality prints will be available in folio form. Details can be found on the introductory page linked above.

I don’t know exactly where this project will lead, but I hope you will come along by checking back every now and then.

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