If you want hummingbirds in your garden you need this plant in your garden. The Blue porterweed is a much loved garden plant for all who want to attract hummingbirds and butterflies to the garden.
If you look closely at the flower cone on the photo you will see that it consists of 2 different kinds of flowers; creamy rounded ones on the underside and reddish ones on the upper side.
Meet the plant named Katuna di Seda, Katúnbóm, Mata di lechi (Calotropis procera) or Milkweed. It is an introduced plant on Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao and all of the New World
If there is a popular herb-like plant on the island it is the Flaira (Jatropha gossypiifolia). Either the variety with the green leaves, or the even more popular variety with the red leaves, the Flaira is one plant almost everyone wants in their garden.
The month of March is a month of transitions. It is a month in which the dry season hits hard with occasionally a heavy rain shower that wakens nature for…
The Bini-Bini was first discovered in the Caribbean by one Nicolaus Joseph von Jacquin in the period between 1755 and 1759. In 1773 the plant was found in Florida by William Bartram.
The best-known orchid that naturally occurs on the islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao is perhaps the Brassavola nodosa, also known as the ‘Lady of the Night’.
Along the entire northern coast of our island, in the saliñas and along inlets and inner bays, grows a small plant that we all walk over carelessly and hardly look at.