Thanks, Lucy, yes i do have alot to be happy for. :) Theresa and Karyn, the 3rd pic is a rose. i dont know what type. all i know is it has been around a very very long time. My grandmother grew it and now i do as well. It has bunches of small double pink flowers and the plant has a very rambling vine like habbit. The leaves are very small as well. its like a climbing minature rose or something!!! Hummingbirds visit my clerodendrum everyday... i never get them in pic because the are so fast!!!

Hi Marricgardens , Seven Locks is really a lovely daylily . I really enjoy it . Yes , Flying Trapeze is actually more intense . It is a huge bloom and just radiates across the garden. Looking at the garden that it is in, your eye is automatically drawn to it .

it was eating my dropped figs. I guess I should clean those up. I ended up flipping him over my wall -- he was sort of trapped.

Climates are different obviously, so the plants that do well here may not do well for you. However, I would guess that all the verbena family are annuals for you. For my area the large purple porterweed (stachytarpheta frantzii) is a terrific butterfly/hummingbird plant. We haven't had a hard freeze here for almost three years and these plants are ever-blooming if it doesn't freeze, They bloom best in the late summer and fall. Right now mine are in full bloom; some are over twelve feet tall. I've tried many different porterweeds over the years, but the large purple one is the best by far. For some people it can get too large, but not in my garden. The other porterweed that has done well for me---meaning it is a perennial that is ever-blooming-- is what we call the native porterweed. It is small, produces blue flowers and attracts small butterflies, moths and bees. For a gardener in Trinidad I imagine that the red porterweed would be an excellent plant. In my area it dies out at even the suggestion of a frost.