San Vicente Botanical Garden Series 2 Ornamental Plants

 San Vicente Botanical Garden  Series 2 

Ornamental Plants 

Living with Nature Center, San Vicente Ilocos Sur 

Dr Abe V Rotor 

Anahaw (Livistonia rotundifolia) in verdant green umbrella-shape leaves, 

casts a queer shadow in mid summer 2020

Frangipani or Kalachuchi (Plumeria acuminata) 

 

Bougainvilla (Bougainvilla spectabilis)

"God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures."  - Francis Bacon

Two varieties of Mayana (Coleus Blumei) or cultivars

Chichirica (Catharanthus roseus)

 Ornamental pineapple (Ananas sp)

    

Crown-of-thorn (Euphorbia milii var splendens) 

 "Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace."  - May Sarton

Pandakaki (Tabernamontana pandakaki )

Rosary bead plant (Abrus precatorius)

 Gumamela (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis) 

" If you wish to make anything grow, you must understand it, and understand it in a very real sense. 'Green fingers' are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart." - Russell Page

"Garden as though you will live forever." - William Kent ~

"My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece." 

- Claude Monet (French Impression painter). 
The artist's Garden at Giverny, 1900