Yellow

Evergreen

Spoooooky.....

White and pinkish bougainvillea

A new bougainvillea

Cactus

My camera prefers to focus on the torns...

Bougainvillea even closer

Trying to figure out how to use my new camera. :-)

Bougainvillea up close

More bougainvillea!
The very-hard-to-spell name is borrowed from the French language. The flower was named after a French military officer, Louis Antoine de Bougainville, who encountered this plant in Brazil in 1768.

Bougainvillea flowers

You will be seeing a lot of these flowers in my bloomblog. I love bougainvillea. Fortunatelly for me, bougainvilleas love Mexico.

Gardenia flower

This flower has the most remarkable scent. I wish I had a smell-blog!

Unidentified flower

I love these little ones, but I don't know their name.

Hibiscus flower

This is a hibiscus flower (Rosemallow). The hibiscus flowers are not only beautful; here in Latin America the hibiscus flower named Roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa) is popular in drinks. It can also be used as a vegetable or in jams and teas.

Another pelargonum flower

This is another pelargonium flower, with a very different shape.

Pelargonium

This is a pelargonium flower. It grows in my garden, but its not native to Mexico. Wild pelargonium flowers can be found chiefly in Africa. The greatest variety of pelargonium species is found in the southern part of the continent, especially in the south-western part of Africa that recieves winter rainfall. Some species are found further north and grow outside Africa in Yemen, Iraq, Iran and Turkey. The flower named P. cotyledonis grows on St. Helena, P. acugnaticum grow on Tristan da Cunha, and you can also find a few pelargonium species in Australia and New Zeeland.

Welcome to bloomblog

Welcome to my flowerblog. All the photograpths depict flowers that grow in my garden or that I see during my daily walks.