The promised storms started at 1:07AM. I don't know what happened, other than thunder, because I didn't hear a thing after that. This afternoon another torrential downpour, with some interesting clouds in the north-east: And then a gorgeous sunset. I hope that 'red sky at night ...' saying holds true for tomorrow's forecast. Here are some, taken just as the sun dipped below the horizon, centered behind my neighbor's tree:

A citrus world tour would be fun! I've seen photos of hundreds of different lemons they grow in Italy. And Australia has some cool looking citrus as well, not just finger limes. To be able to taste and see the worlds ways of culture would be wonderful. Laura, I know what you mean to be slimming down. Mine are so large it is getting hard to move them in and out of the greenhouse. So I am looking at replacing some of my larger ones with smaller plants. Basically starting over. I have a Clementine that will probably not be replaced, as I haven't gotten fruit on it for the last three years. Probably due to having to cut it back to put it in the greenhouse! But the fruit weren't that great to begin with, I wound up juicing all the fruit. I am sticking to lemons and limes, mostly. I've tried oranges in the past and they just didn't taste that good to me. Could have been the cultivar, but they tasted watery and bland. I have Ponderosa, Meyer, Variegated Eureka, and Lemonade Lemons, Key, Red, Finger, Kaffir, and a Thornless Key Lime, along with Calamondin, Buddha's Hand, Clementine and a Seedling Minneola. And I'm in the process of rooting a cutting of Lisbon Lemon. Oh and a Meiwa Kumquat. And six of those are LARGE! The rest are relatively young, so not huge yet. Lol. Way too many for my small greenhouse!

I'm jealous. My Dischidia is still small, growing from a cutting I got last winter, with no sign of blooming. Your wee flowers are adorable!

Prairie Harvest is the best looking bush (besides French Romanticas) in my garden. It's perfect vase shaped, no messy canes like Austins. If your soil is high in phosphorus yellow blooms will have apricot to pink shades. My soil is high in magnesium so blooms stay yellow. I gave away Charles Darwin since its bloom is beige or fades in my alkaline clay, but Prairie Harvest's light yellow is pretty & glows in in cool weather. Another yellow THAT NEVER FADE, and stays deep yellow even with spent blooms is Honey Bouquet .. this needs serious winter protection, or planted at least 6 inch. below ground. Floribundas like Honey Bouquet have short roots and need constant moisture in winter. Never see blackspots on below Honey Bouquet: