Christmas in May!

Compared to a typical city-sized lot, one acre may seem big.  While we don't have expansive vistas, there are many sweet "corners" around the property that offer a variety of intimate views.

This little hillock was one of the first places we cleared out from encroaching vines, mounds of stag ferns and other invasive plants.  In doing so, we found a whole flat of tiny red and green striped bromeliads that were less than two inches tall.  We nested them into the varie ty of mosses that were growing under the ohia trees.

With the beautiful olive green leafed ohia trees bursting out with poofs of red blossoms right now, and all these red accented plants, our yard looks like  Christmas packages.

The last photo is from another bed up near the front of the property, another hill of bromeliads  At Sunday's farmers market, we picked up some new ones in PINK and YELLOW -- that we will get posted soon.

Bloomin' in Puna

We pick up all kinds of unusual plants at the local farmers' market.  A couple weeks ago, we saw these linear shaped bromeliad plants.  However, we no idea they would produce such interesting blooms -- and only a couple weeks after planting them. The flower comes up inside a pair of bright red pedals, then explodes into little flowers with yellow, pink, green and blue.