Flowers Blooming Now

Reed Stem Epidendrum

Hoya

Thunbergia

Mina lobata

Canna Lily

Drumstick Alliums

More Blue and White

Green Fruit Beetle

Iridescent green, one inch long (Cotinus mutabilis) Green Fruit Beetles fly through the garden in mid-summer.  They lay eggs in the compost pile and are attracted to the ripening fruit: 

figs,

pomegranates,

oranges,

persimmons.

Blue and White

More Heavenly Blue

Morning Glories

Heavenly Blue

Morning Glory

Senna Butterfly

Senna Sulfur (Phoebis sennae) flies through the garden occasionally during the summer.

Senna tree (Cassia glauca) where the caterpillars live.

Gulf Fritillary

Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae) is the most common butterfly in the garden.

The caterpillars feed on the passion flower vine.

I see the butterflies feeding on:  heliotrope,

zinnia,

and bougainvillea. 

Hydrangeas

Hydrangeas, pot of impatiens and abutilon