The deep mottled hues and varied shapes of the tropical croton plant appeal to me. Its colorful glossy leaves brighten up any garden.
Quezon, 2010
Linking with Today's Flower, where I hope my pretty leaves are accepted as decoratives, as well as the blogging communities at Mellow Yellow Monday and Mosaic Monday.
crotons are colorful. they always add color to the garden.
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I see a lot of those leaves around here but I never knew the name. :)
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Liz @ MLC
"Croton" - the planet where the interstellar guardian lives amongst plants with beautiful leaves. It is a plant planet, and he's the plant planet-carrium.
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Luv, K
Kay, Alberta, Canada
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Colored leaves are so cool and unique :)
ReplyDeletei have few of these in my yard and never bothered to take a shot.
ReplyDeletecolors are so vibrant thru ur lens.
visiting u from here... have a happy week ahead.
ReplyDeleteAll the plants are very different from the ones we see around here! Very tropical :-)
ReplyDeletei think we have that plants before, nice entry . have time to visit my entry also, happy new year!
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Hi Francisca, yes, crotons are always colorful and there are many varieties around. You should see those with spindly leaves, it is my favorite croton.
ReplyDeleteThe first is populare in Denmark, but we have them indoors ;-)
ReplyDeleteCrotons are really beautiful...so tropical feeling. When we visited Chicago last summer we saw that they had planted huge patches of crotons along the city streets...what a beautiful splash of color!
ReplyDeleteI always marvel at plants like these growing wild -- in the Pacific Northwest we see them as pampered house plants only.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful colors.
Crotons were more common here in Sweden when I was a little girl. My mother had them as indoors flowers.
ReplyDeleteLovely mosaic.
ahhhh...beautiful tropical plants that can thrive outdoors year round! Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!
ReplyDeleteMy mom has this plants. We call it "San Francisco" I didn't know it is called Croton to some. Great shot!
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I am not sure about the thin leafed plant, which actually is my favourite, but these are some gorgeous crotons!
ReplyDeleteBEAUTIFUL!!!
ReplyDeletegotta love those colors.
Beautiful shots! I miss that plant!
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There is such a lot of variety in crotons. I like them for this reason - different leaf shapes and a whole world of colors.
ReplyDeleteWhat a contrast with our dull or now gone folisge!
ReplyDeletelovely! we used to have those kinds of plants in our garden!
ReplyDeleteSuperb Foliage Plant. Wonderful colour.
ReplyDeleteI love these...we have them all over Florida, especially south Florida...in Ocala, it's a little cold but they'll still grow.
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