Tetrio Sphinx Caterpillar

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Imagine one of these munching its way through your garden. I saw this one, and then I saw two others soon after!

Both terrifying (I was initially sure it must be poisonous and stepped back as if it might eat my face) and amazingly beautiful all at once.

Turns out it won’t eat your face or your entire garden, just the frangipani relatives if you have them.

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Desert Rose (Adenium obesum)

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Hot Cactus on Cactus Action

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Okay, maybe not hot, but merely an epiphytic cactus hitching a ride on a large opuntia. Pretty cool though. I’ve never seen this before!

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Euphorbia lactea

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Here’s a plant I would love to grow at home. It’s fairly common here in Barbados. I have seen it in the ground and in white pots. I never thought I’d say this, but it really works in a white pot.

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Papaya Flowers

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A little while back I wrote about trying North American paw paw fruit for the first time. Many of you chimed in to say, That’s not the paw paw I know!

Well, here it is. The flowers, anyway.

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