Sunday, April 18, 2021

Flowers

All the flowers on Bonaire seem exotic to us.  This is a bloom on a heliconia.  It's bright red and big.




The orchids are blooming as well.  This one in our backyard is growing out of pot set into a palm tree. It looks like a daffodil but it's an orchid.






This orchid is growing from a palm tree.  It is stapled to the tree with no pot and it's roots just hangout. And it blooms!

When I was growing orchids in Denver, I would water, fertilize and fuss with the plants to  get them to bloom.  Here they just grow with no attention.  




This orchid looks like it should be dead.  But it blooms and has heart shaped flowers.

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