🌷🌸Summer Blooms And The Memories Of My Childhood🌞😎
The Philippines has so many beautiful flowering trees during summer. It adds the balmy and exotic fragrance of the summer breeze when it blooms. It's nice to reminisce my childhood days in the province when my brothers and I would climb up those flowering trees and smell its fragrance or just play around its branches. We love to jump from one branch to the other and play till we get tired. Below are those beautiful summer blooms:
The Orchid or Butterfly Tree:
- Commonly called orchid trees for their flowers or butterfly trees for their leaves. The orchid tree blossoms with showy masses of large, sweetly scented, 5-inch-wide purple, pink, magenta, white or lavender blooms, each delicately resembling an orchid. Flowers are followed by slender brown flat seedpods that ripen after the flowering season has passed. The orchid tree is one of the most popular flowering trees for warm-weather climates. It blends well into almost any landscape and can provide welcome shade during the summer.
We love to play around the branches as it is pliable and you won't be scared that it will break and you fell down. We hold the branches and let it sway till it kiss in the ground
Golden Chain Tree - Monrovia or Casia Fistula or Golden Shower Tree
- Spectacular color from long, drooping clusters of lightly fragrant, bright yellow flowers! This very attractive garden tree has an upright base with a beautiful spreading canopy and bluish-green foliage. A great choice for use as a single specimen or for a group planting. Flowering is most prolific in cooler summer regions. Deciduous. They are gorgeous when you see them in real in full bloom, it seems the tree is laden with golden flowers. They bloom during summers, April-May.
We pick those flowers that fell to the ground and put it in my basket and throw it along the aisle during Flores de Mayo
Fire Tree
- The Fire tree (Xanthorrhoea preissil) is an aromatic wood so loaded with essential oil that the bushmen use it as matches to light their fires. It has a very sweet and strong fruity head smell, like apricot and myrtle. This notes goes on unchanged in the heart of the fragrance and it settles down after a day in a delicate and persistent woody fruity bottom smell.
Just like the Golden Shower Flowers we also use the flowers that fell to the ground for Flores de Mayo
How I love to reminisce my childhood. I missed it so much!
