As you can tell if you have been following the daily updates of Antigua Daily Photo for the last 14 years, I really like to photograph these golden and maroon flowers known as tunbergia misurense. Tumbergias are very popular in the gardens of Antigua Guatemala. Tumbergias are also quite popular with bees and hummingbirds because of … Read more
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Albahaca for basil. Believe it or not, basil is actually quite popular in the gardens of Antigua Guatemala. Plant nurseries have starter plants for about Q5; that’s about US $0.65. Since we have a temperate weather year round, you can always have growing fresh in your garden.
Here’s a close-up look at vibrant fuchsia bracts of the bougainvillea climber plant; definitely the most popular flower plant found in the gardens of Antigua Guatemala. Notice that the actual flowers are tiny and are surrounded by brightly colored papery bracts. What’s your favorite bougainvillea color?
We continue our close-up look at the flowers found in the gardens of Antigua Guatemala with camarón amarillo, as we know the yellow shrimp plant in Guatemala. The most popular colors for the shrimp flowers are red, white and yellow. The scientific name for the yellow shrimp flower is Pachystachys lutea. The red shrimp flower’s … Read more
Here’s a close-up look of another popular flower found in the gardens of Antigua Guatemala: Salvia leucantha commonly known in Guatemala as Salvia Cordón de San Francisco. How are these flowers known in your neck of the woods?
We continue our close-up look at the most common flowers found in the gardens of Antigua Guatemala with Hortensias the common name (which most people in the US call hydranga) or Hydrangea marophylla its scientific name. This particular flower (which most people in the US call hydranga) has an additional lesson for me. You can … Read more
The Strongylodon jade vines are commonly known as emerald vine or turquoise jade vine; although in Antigua Guatemala the popular name is Jade tumbergia. The Strongylodon jade vines are not as commonly found as the colorful and odd-looking flowers of the climber plant known as Tumbergias (tunbergia misurense is the scientific name); but once you see them … Read more
It’s been a while since our last post on the Guateflora series. Our daily life vista is framed by the plant called Cisus here for Parthenocisus inserta, and I believe Virginia creepers in English.
Even though the slogan for La Antigua Guatemala is the city of the perpetual roses or as we say in Spanish, La ciudad de las perpetuas rosas, I truly believe bougainvillea flowers are what gives Antigua Guatemala its beautiful color palette; don’t you agree? Take a photographic tour through the many bougainvillea posts found in … Read more
Welcome to the land of the eternal Spring where flowers are always in bloom even during the dry season that spans from November through April. So, what are you waiting for, pack your bags and head down south where we have the gorgeous flowers, beautiful light and temperate weather to hibernate during the harsh Winter … Read more
Two small updates from Antigua Guatemala. I can’t believe that I hadn’t shared with you the flowers known here as camarones blancos, white shrimp, in all these years. I mean I have tried to be as thorough as possible with the GuateFlora series, I mean even chichicaste is in there. The small of update, for … Read more
Strongylodon Jade flowers are vines similar to the colorful and strange-looking flowers of a climber plant known locally as Tumbergias (tunbergia misurense is the scientific name). Tumbergias are quite popular in the gardens of La Antigua Guatemala. Tumbergias Jade, on the other hand, are quite rare. Both kinds of tunbergia are very popular with bees … Read more
Is it the remains of rain or the dew from sunrise, what do you think? If you any of you guys are interested in the scientific information and growing conditions of these flowers, I will look it up and update the entry.
I never get tired of reminding you guys about the vibrant rich and saturated colours one finds in Antigua Guatemala year round, regardless of whether is the rainy or dry season. Flowers are very good example of these vibrant colours and perhaps also the reason Guatemala is called the country of the eternal Spring since … Read more
To get us into the mood of the Christmas season that can be felt everywhere in Guatemala now, here’s the first free poinsettia wallpaper of the season. You can browse the wallpaper category to get the other 45 Guatemalan wallpapers for your computer available from AntiguaDailyPhoto for free. Did you know that poinsettias were native … Read more