February: Your flowers that appear this month

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Post photos. Outdoor plants that were not blooming last month. Or they were blooming, and freezes wrecked them, now they have started anew.

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SusieQsie_Fla

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Four, I just spotted a ”pipe” on my a. trilobata today! and was a little surprised since the vines are still so fresh and short after the frost kill.

More pictures :

The Blue Ginger in the back ain’t blooming yet, but I like this pink spike on what I think is a bromeliad. Anyone know what it is?

Natchitoches Rose keeping a bare crepe mytle company

Peggy Martin just started to crank out blooms. I train the long thornless branches into an overhead ”roof” to shade the lettuce and broccoli in this early hot weather.

Bellagirl, I have the same list as you (except Panama Rose) but here in zone 9 my Fire Bushes had to be cut back to the ground. They are coming back but no flowers yet and the Zebras are everywhere waiting patiently. I see them way up in this Sweet Almond, which was completely blown out of the ground in Ian and almost completely cut back before we replanted it. I am amazed that it lives and full of the best smelling flowers this February!

It’s about 10’ tall now so I couldn’t get closer to the panicles to photo them.

Hope to see y’all and your bloomers next month!

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Tiffany, purpleinopp Z8b Opp, AL
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I like the description! Hope I have something to contribute soon. "The deep freeze" really freaked some stuff out around here. I'm seeing a few things peeking around cautiously, thinking about blooming...
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Bud. First ever for this Rompe saragüey. (Flowers photo in future.)
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sultry_jasmine_nights (Florida-9a-ish)
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So far the only thing blooming in our yard right now is the Hibiscus I bought at Lowes 😅

Ok update lol..I went out and watered the plants I have in the tiny house (what I'm temporarily using for a greenhouse lol) and most of the citrus is still blooming like crazy. Sweet Almond shrub is blooming and so is the coral salvia.

My gardenia shrub planted by the deck had every leaf froze from the FL deep freeze lol.

The stems and trunk are still alive. All the white ginger froze to the ground.

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dirtygardener
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Not much blooming in N. Central right now. I have a few buds on my baby Jatropha, but they'll probably get knocked off by the cold snap this weekend. It will be March before anything much blooms around here.
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Tiffany, purpleinopp Z8b Opp, AL
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Those blooms sound great! I'm surprised to hear that about your Gardenia. I have several and they are unaffected.
sultry_jasmine_nights (Florida-9a-ish)
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I was surprised at the gardenia leaves too. I am not 100% of the variety because I didn't plant it. We had several nights in the teens. I am glad the actual bush is alive. I hope it hasn't affected the flowering for this year.
JoanM
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The bush penta has fresh blooms.

I love purple

My patio lizard loves to gaze in the mirror. I love when she flexes and makes mean faces and attacks the mirror 🤣 I am so easily amused these days. I named her Cardi L. She often sleeps in the amaryllis leaf ala Avatar.
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JoanM
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The best lzard bed ever!
four (9B near 9A)
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>" buds on my baby Jatropha, but they'll probably get knocked off by the cold snap this weekend" ___ Can you take it indoors? My Jatropha lost all leaves last month, even though very well protected outdoors. (Note to self : take it indoors this time.)
Tiffany, purpleinopp Z8b Opp, AL
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Is that spider plant, Joan?

Sultry, it was brutal here too, 4 nights in a row in the teens and a period of 72 hours below freezing. An extremely rare deep freeze for this area.

Back in 2011 or '12, we had an ice storm and Gardenias, like everything else, were covered with ice. That didn't bother them either.
JoanM
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Hi Tiffany, I think you are seeing the Ponytail Palm?

They will make into the ground one day.
Tiffany, purpleinopp Z8b Opp, AL
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Those are pretty! I was asking about what is in the cup?
JoanM
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The lizrad bed in a cup is an Amaryllis bulb.
Tiffany, purpleinopp Z8b Opp, AL
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Oh, that's much better than a spider plant! : )
JoanM
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I found a white bird of paradise flower up high.

This yard is so large, trimming dead fronds is very hard so I just try to block out the brown bits mentally. LOL
Tiffany, purpleinopp Z8b Opp, AL
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Lovely! That's the good kind of mental block.
sultry_jasmine_nights (Florida-9a-ish)
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I love that flower and your silly lizard. Lizards are so funny. At my old place, they were really tame. One time we were digging a new flowerbed and the lizards kept running down into the bed as we dug, snatching up bugs. We started just throwing bugs and grubs up on the sides up the bed where the lizrds were all waiting lol. They would readily snatch them up and look at us for more.

They would get very close to us.
four (9B near 9A)
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>dead fronds... I just try to block out the brown bits mentally" ___ That could be your first step onto a good path, next step being acceptance, arrival step enjoyment.
Tom
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Many things are blooming here in Central Florida. Here are some: pink, purple and mauve firespikes, white and pink powder puffs, a huge orchid tree, many many shrimp plants, salvias miniata and especially Amistad, cape honey suckle and cuphea shumannii. Also, I've been visited by male and female black-chinned hummingbirds.
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four (9B near 9A)
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>"black-chinned hummingbirds" ___ Maybe wafted by hurricanes.
Tom
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I have seen them here before during the winter months, but not for a few years, though. There are at least two here now--a male and a female. A friend came by today and was able to get a good photo of the male. I will post it here when he sends it to me. I have had ruby-throateds all winter. Now they seem to be scarce. The migration should arrive here in the next three weeks or so.
puglvr (9B)
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Thanks for sharing everyone...

My Mango and Lychee are flowering :o)...had NO mangoes or Lychees last year due to the January 30th 2022 "freeze" fried all my blooms and lots of other plants in the yard, so hopefully I will have some Mangoes this summer...fingers crossed!!

Lychee blooms...

Cogshall Mango...

Lychee

Glenn Mango...

Orchid...
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JoanM
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I love the Firespike. I need to add some to this house.

Yesterday I had a visit from a beautiful hawk but the photo is from inside the screen porch.

It was gorgeous.
four (9B near 9A)
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Different kind of Tillandsia. Feb flowers.
Tiffany, purpleinopp Z8b Opp, AL
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That's going to be cool! Those are bracts. When they are ready, a little flower will pop out of each joint, starting near the base and going toward the tip. It will be much more dramatic than it is now.
four (9B near 9A)
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Yeah, I wanted to show them while they are red; soon they will turn brown. The tiny florets are inconspicuous, last for a short time, and I usually don't notice them in time.
JoanM
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It looks like I have Jesus lizards as well as the red headed Agamas in this yard. They all seem to co-exist with the Florida Anoles but what do I know. I just observe. Check out the length of it’s tail.
carolb_w_fl_coastal_9b
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I love the color of that ground orchid! Would love to find one - maybe at the Green Thumb Festival in April. I already have a red one and it's blooming.

I'm feeling too lazy to take pictures right now, but my Key lime, macadamia and banana are all blooming, and my Chickasaw plum is filled with buds. Walter's viburnum is blooming, and neighbor's kapok is covered with buds too - which makes me sigh, because after the beautiful red flowers come the seed pods and white fluff hell for weeks...
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Another first ever. Noticed it from a distance this morning. Never had been white there before, must be on a young Elder, many are near. Nope, the Viburnum that I planted quite a few years ago.
sultry_jasmine_nights (Florida-9a-ish)
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Not much to report here. A few nights ago we had another 32F night! So everything tender got hauled into the "tiny house", our house, or hubby's shop. This is getting old grrr.

I have been planting out some roses in the new bed I made to hide a tall RV/farm equipment carport-type of structure. There is a steep slope at one end so I have to put in some cement blocks and make it kinda tiered on one side (like a raised bed). I am trying to do apricot, oraange white and maybe a little pink in that area. I will have to figure out what kind of companion plants to put with those colors of roses.

We are on baby watch today because one of our does is in the early stages of labor. She is due tomorrow, so she is a little early. Her last kidding had complications so we are keeping a close eye on her.

We have been cleaning the barn out since we have to be in there anyways. Cleaning a 2800+ sq ft barn is hard work without a tractor lol.
four (9B near 9A)
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Aristolochia trilobata flowers now.
four (9B near 9A)
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Mexican Flame Vine Pseudogynoxys chenopodioides
SusieQsie_Fla
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The month is almost over! Where the heck did it go? I was surprised at how much is blooming in February after the couple of harsh winter nights here.
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SusieQsie_Fla
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Here’s one for you, Joan
SusieQsie_Fla
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Lenette, how is your Mama Doe? I hope you have a new bambi!

Okay, here is a nice weed blooming in February and some marigold seedlings and one out of a hundred coreopsis volunteers that just bloomed….
four (9B near 9A)
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SusieQsie_Fla
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BrocBroccoli gone to seed
bellagirl0614
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I've got Salvias, Coral Huneysuckle, Orange Jasmine, purple Firespike, Panama Rose, Firebush, Walking Iris :) I'm in zone 10a
four (9B near 9A)
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Feb 27
carolb_w_fl_coastal_9b
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Nice plants, SusieQsie 😃

Your bromeliad looks like a bilbergia. I have one that blooms carmine and blue violet, but not right now. I really like that pink!
four (9B near 9A)
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Rompe saragüey bud that i posted here 20 days ago, as it is today Feb 28. Surely is slow to open.

Below, Chaya trying to qualify for posting in February thread :.