More from my tropical garden

I don’t know the name of this one. The flower is about 2 inches high. The plant is a bush.

Eleconia. The plants grow to about 10 ft.

The fancy bromelia. The pink parts are leaves.

Flowers from my neighbor’s garden.

Mini sweet pimiento plant. It just appeared and is now about 3 ft tall.

Oregano in a pot.

A tree bromelia which fell out of the tree. Now it is soon going to flower. About 4 ft high.

A Puertorrican Name (nee-amey) with a new shoot. Too late to cook this one.

And a visiting beetle. Yesterday we had a visit from a 4-5 ft boa constrictor.

That’s all. folks.

 

 

No math, but Puerto Rico

So I live here, I like it, here’s a fun view of PR:

https://www.facebook.com/TheFlama/videos/935384443223959/

But here are some pics:

The bullfrog in the dog dish.

The coqui (very small puertorrican frog that says “cock – ee”. I can hear one now.

And what the dog did with an iguana !

 

Mathematics in my garden

So there it was, built from one clothesline to another, glistening in the sunlight one morning last week:

A near perfect spiderweb, demanding a better photo:

Here is  the horizontal strip, showing the variation in spacing of the spiral:

and again, with a superimposed scale. The spider is at the centre.

And now rotated, to give more detail.

Now “Get modelling!”.

A change from math – my garden in Puerto Rico

Ten years ago I came to Puerto Rico, to Mayaguez on the west coast, to a house with the usual vast expanse of nicely trimmed grass. Now I have the controlled jungle I always wanted. More time spent cutting things back or down than spent trying to get things to grow.

One leaf like this each year. A less successful part of the jungle.

My flamboyan tree. Best year ever for flowers.

And here from underneath.

The monster plant. From 1 foot to 6 feet in 8 years, and prickly.

Ginger. Later the flower grows baby plants and more flowers.

Small apple bananas. Guineo manzano. Up to 300 on one stalk.

I don’t know the name of this one, but it is 6 feet high and growing.

Definitely not weed.

Voyager palm, it flowered three times this year.

A fancy bromelia.
This is a fern, tree sized, with its annual one foot high flower.

There’s more, but I have to go out and cut some strays.

I am quite sure that there is math growing here, waiting to be spotted.