Last shots of house before departure

Big Iguana that lives across the street


He loves fruit, here he is posing with his banana.

This iguana lives in one of the wild plum trees in our yard.  I gave him a banana too.  He watched me put it in the tree with him but he didn't touch it.  Maybe he's a different kind and is only a meat eater.... don't know.

A passing road runner stopped by when I was next door at the neighbors










Front  view of the house, showing some of the plants.



Front on view.  Note the railings now on the upper deck and on the staircase on the right.  Note also we have a front staircase!

On the right is a medajool date palm grown by our friend Gloria for us.  Next are three Neem trees, one grown by our friend Annette from seed, the other two purchased at a nursery.  To the left of them are 8 Blue Agave given to us by our neighbor Gail.  Note the path down to the front gate.  All along the fence line at the front are oleander in various shades of pink.  In the right hand corner is a bougainvillea, pinkish of course.  Up close on the left is an unknown to me plant given to us from Annette.  I think it is in the philodendron  family, it is supposed to get fairly large leaves.  I planted some smaller philodendron cuttings with it since it has irrigation.  


















View of oleander along fence line.  Note the front stairs and the railings.




Below left is a Mexican limon and a pomegranite.  The planter on the right holds three Kerpi palms, also known as Christmas palms.

Another view of the Kerpis palms in the planter with cherry tomatoes and our road runner.

Another picture of the neem trees and the path to the front gate.  Along the wall next to the house are four mauve bougainvillea.  Yes, that is barbed wire, hopefully the cows and the goats will stay out!



I don't know what this plant is but it has flowers and red edible fruit.

We are no longer in the driveway, the motor home is on the street!  It's early and we are really leaving!  

The house is all buttoned up for the summer!  These are special hurricane shutters; Florida approved to withstand big storms.  Here's hoping!  

I am so looking forward to seeing what the yard will look like when we get back.  Of course it will be full of weeds but hopefully all the intended plantings will have taken and be well established.