Walking Saint Lucia 2014 July

Saint Lucia is under 'water emergency' - severe drought...it's well into our 'rainy season' and day by day passes with only Sahara dust clouding up the sky. A few sprinkles...last night I got to smell 'Petrichor' - the smell of earth wet by the rain (saw that one on Facebook last week) ... but the side effect of 2 inches of rain a few weeks ago has been a burst of flowering. Here you go - walking Cap-Donkey Beach-Cas en Bas and back.

tiny white flowers

Acacia nilotica

Purple flower beach vine

burs

burs again

not a wild flower - by the entrance to what would have been Raffles Golf Course

the yellow daisy like flowers - everywhere in bloom

not a flower - tiny red leafed plant

me n my shadow - one of the happy Cas en Bas dogs

Opuntia - prickly pear cactus

one of the purple flowers

the famous Rocket Booster...and Marjorie's Menu

Someone built a castle

tiny 'thistles' by the pond

The Red Puff Ball plant - one of the thorn trees

think this is a 'Ti Bomn'

The red leaf plant and tiny light purple flowers - about 1/2 cm

here they are up close

the white 5-lobe flower - looks like sweet lime's cousin but no scent

white bougainvillea by Cas en Bas

wild dwarf powye  - Tabebuia heterophylla

See www.saintlucianplants.com for all kinds of info on our wild and some cultivated plants and their uses