Today I’m sharing older photos from my posts on beautiful Bok Tower Gardens, An Island of Tranquility. It’s one of my favorite places in Florida. I have visited periodically throughout the years. It is a woodland contemplative garden with carillon concerts from Bok Tower during the day.
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Most views I share at my condo are of my building, Building B, its courtyard, and front garden. What makes it special? It is one of two buildings out of 5 that is built around a courtyard in the center. Today I’m sharing photos taken at our neighbor, Building A. There is a garden with 3 sides of apartments. It opens to a sidewalk on the 4th side.
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Living here in central Florida, the garden is tropical. If you remember my garden at my house several years ago, you will recognize this photo from 2023 of my frangipani (or plumeria) flowers:
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Today’s photos were snapped here early one morning before the heat of a central Florida summer drove me inside. Most days start with startling blue skies and white clouds. Most afternoons rains move in.
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No matter the heat, the large peace lily in the quadrangle garden is covered with blooms. Peace lilies are native to tropical regions, so they thrive in environments with higher humidity. That’s the summer environment in Florida – hot and humid. They also prefer bright, indirect light. Avoid direct sunlight, which can scorch their leaves. The bush is thriving despite the fact it receives some direct sun. Surrounded by the condo building I live in, many hours of the day it is in the shade. As the sun travels in the sky each day, it also receives some full sun. A few of the leaves have scorching on the edge.
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It’s Tuesday, and the last few days have had spectacular skies. The weather prediction is for rain late today and scattered showers through Friday. Here’s some views you might like.
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Our dry season here in Central Florida is coming to an end. We’d not had rain for a while until a nice wet front moved in from the west. It had originally come from Texas across the Gulf coast to Florida. We had rain late Friday, some again on Saturday, and finally on Sunday. Everything green is smiling.
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I’m relaxing this afternoon after several days of working on blog posts. Some posts like this one are just easy to write. That’s what I need after working hard for several days on brunch for mothers and then a look of low maintenance flooring.
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