Wednesday Walk

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This is my post for #wednesdaywalk hosted by @tattoodjay

A walk around my yard.

My bananas are getting ripe, I love them they are a lot sweeter and flavorful than the ones you buy in the stores. I think because they pick them so green they do not have time to get sweet.

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This is my butternut squash, it had a female flower open but no male flower so I took a male flower off the Seminole squash and mated it with the female butternut, I hope this will work but if I plant the seeds there is no telling what I will get. It should be interesting.

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I do have one butternut that developed.

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I drilled more holes in my sandflea bucket and my husband came home and seen it, he thinks the holes are to big. I do not think they are to big. We will see who is right. He was talking about going to get fleas tomorrow, I do not want to go because I have to cook Thanksgiving dinner. Maybe he will change his mind.

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A few years ago I brought this coconut home from the beach, I threw it on the ground over our septic tank and it started growing and I could not let it grow there so I planted it in a big pot.

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Some people call this lipstick plant, I call it firecracker plant. When the old fish house closed in 2005 after the hurricanes took most of it out, I dug up this plant, Granny Smith planted the first one when they opened in 1932.

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This is firebush hummingbirds and butterflies
love it.

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This is bluebells they look purple to me but I am not the one that named it.

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This is decorative ginger

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This is a camellia, my youngest daughter was very sick and I had to take her to Jacksonville to the Mayo Clinic. There was an old cemetery behind the place where we were staying and it had camellias planted around it. I clipped a small cutting on one of the limbs that was too long. I do not think it is stealing when I know the landscape person will cut it off and throw them away. That is my reasoning.

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Here is a desert rose that I have made a Bonsai out of.

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This one is a cherry jubilee alamanda

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You have quite the green thumb @my job.

How wonderful to have your own bananas. The lipstick plant is lovely

Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃 💕

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@redheadpei thank you, we use to have a plant nursery, kind of still do but we only grow one type of palm. Yes, I love the firecracker too. Does Canada celebrate Thanksgiving? If not or if so Happy Thanksgiving anyway.

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Our Thanksgiving is earlier on October 13. this year.

Thanks for the greetings anyway, 😊 🙏

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Have you ever seen red banana ?

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@thesobuz No, but I would love to see one or better yet have one. I will google red bananas. thank you.

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I have seen from a trip to Bandarban In Bangladesh 🤓

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@thesobuz OMG they also have bananas that are cream or bluish-colored that taste like ice cream, the red ones so pretty.

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You have an amazing green thumb! Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!

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@melinda010100 thank you, we did have a very nice Thanksgiving. I hope yours was also good.

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Thanks! My kids and grandkids were here for the weekend, and that is always good!

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@melinda010100 yes having them over is bittersweet, I love having them here but when they leave the house is to quiet. And I have to get used to it all over again. I really miss my kids when they were small, I wish I could do it all over again.

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Those were precious times. My grandkids are growing up so quickly, too. Each day I get to spend with them brings me so much joy.

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What country is this in? It looks like a very similar climate to here in Suriname.

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@justinparke I live in Florida, USA. Where is Suriname? I think I have heard of it but not sure where it is at.

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We are on the northeast coast of South America, with direct flights to Miami. I just wondered because you're climate looks very similar. I've always been curious if ackee grows in Florida, but I've never seen it yet.

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@justinparke we can not grow ackee here, the state of Florida has a ban on growing and selling it. I believe it will grow here, climate-wise. Nice to know where you are from, thank you.

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