Drought and the Avocada Tree

 

The back yard is scorching in the hot sun, high temps, July Temps in last two days of March and getting hotter, mid to high 90's and some days feels like temps reach into the hundreds, IN APRIL and no measurable rain since Milton the storm.. These are buds, the leaves come out and push off the old, and the buds make the fruit. We doubt it will bare fruit this year.

The ground is thick with buds and each bud if full of pollen, the tree is full of BEES sucking up pollen and the high winds blow the buds like rain and spread the pollen on the dry dirt and in the pool... so UNLIKE our Florida a few years ago

Above photos on 4/11/2025

Current with new eaves, all the dead ones fell off.

Its better now, still no rain.

Nature Friday at Living the LLB Life with Rosy and Sunny..

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The Only Hibiscus Drought 3

 

can you find the flower above?

The only little petunia hibiscus in the onion patch back yard,

its beauty hidden until I looked really hard.

Drought has made the bush look ugly, but one small flower is hanging low.

It should be a double bloom, this we know,

the bush should be full of dozens this time of year.

but the rain just will not come, oh dear, oh dear.

put a new app on the iphone. its a collage maker

Before drought the bush bloomed most of the year with these

Drought Front Yard

Bougainvillea is so pretty from our front window. It is drought resistant and blooms no matter what happens with the weather.

I can see it while cooking/washing dishes or sitting in my chair or sofa.

Below is view from front porch and the rest of the photos are from our driveway looking at the house

 

If we had any rain at all it would be three times as big as it is, but we are thankful.

it is in our view from inside our home.

Don't rush out to buy one. They are the dickens to take care of. Covered in long dagger like thorns.

Drought Back Yard

 

backyard now

We do not have many flowers now due to the extended drought. We have had only 2 rains, light ones since Ian the hurricane 6 months ago. The grass is dead, and below is the Kings Mantle Bush.  

we have 3 plant blooming now, all three are drought resistant. They live with the tiny bit of water I give them and have a few blooms. The bush below is hilarious to us. Libs with no leaves, a few leaves and One Branch only Covered.

I will do two other posts on the blooms. to be continued

PS while in the yard taking these photos, fussing because THEY said we would get a rainstorm and it never came. It went South and North of us. Not One Drop!

I heard what sounded like and air raid siren going off, and thought I had time traveled to WWII and we were being attacked.

I came in the house and said Bob did you hear the air raid siren? Maybe it is a tornado. 

I went to the computer to check our weather and just as I pulled

up the below snip and said Bob, it is a tornado, 5 miles south of us in Sarasota,

 Bob said Well look at the TV and there was a bright red warning on the screen.

We did not get rain and did not get the tornado.

Happy Dance

Beauty and The Beast of yards

 

In our Florida Sun and Summer extreme heat, grass here in our small part of Florida, is hard to keep alive. Above is what you get with a sprinkler system and below is the house 4 down from us tht has gone to seed and the weeds are taking over the house.

Yard work in FL must bed done by professionals or dedicated retired owners.

And gallons of water. I am afraid the few people watering there yards are wasting our water supply.

We are somewhere in the middle. Bob has always cuts what ever grows once a week and weed wacked and that is it.

On my morning walks, I pass some with green and some like this one. 

The green grass and this house are only 5 houses from each other.

 we have beauty and the beast on every street. 

Drought is wreaking havoc here and other places.

We are desperate for rain. Our back yard is all sand.

Drought is a horrible thing. It seems it is either too much rain, or not enough.

Our world is in danger from Climate Changes, it is not to late to change the path we are on.

. the house above photo was take 1 month ago, and the post has been in drafts for a month.

 The house now has garlands of the weed hanging all around the eaves like Christmas Garland.

WE GOT RAIN, 3 times, in 4 days for a total almost 6 inches of rain.

Everything Turned GREEN 

Friday will show you how much rain came, this post was only 2 inches, the first day of The Rain

Above is our front yard which is provided by God and his Rain and cut by Bob. The Sod grass is across the street and was ugly and brown and now is GREEN... here in Florida, the heat/humidity greens everything over night.  For all of the 32 years in this house, our God provided grass was green and beautiful. until 4 years ago when it stopped raining. 

Now we wait to see what hurricane Elsa will do or not do.... we are green while we wait.

What's happening in your part of our world?