Gumamela/Hibiscus

Two colors of gumamela/hibiscus I spotted at a parking lot near the Manila Ocean Park.  Hibiscus is a pretty common flower here, we usually take it for granted.  I'm glad somebody took time to plant these flowers in the parking lot.

“Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us.    Being happy isn't having   everything in your life be perfect.   Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.”  ~ Ann Brachares

 

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Red Hibiscus-double

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.  

Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.

~ Horace

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Hibiscus/Monday Mellow Yellows

Yellow and pink hibiscus at my mini garden.

Nothing lasts, nothing is finished, nothing is perfect...

Embrace imperfection and find beauty and authenticity in it.

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Yellow Hibiscus

I have been stalking my mother's hibiscus since the first bud started to show in late November.  Because the buds were in peach, I was expecting a peach-colored hibiscus.

I was pleasantly surprised when it bloomed into a lovely shade of lemon yellow. 

“Would you like to know your future?

If your answer is yes, think again.

Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.

So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence---

a surprise.” ~ Vera Nazarian

 “One of the most beneficial and valuable gifts we can give to ourselves in this life: is allowing ourselves to be surprised! It is okay if life surprises you. Its a good thing!” 

~ C. JoyBell C.

 

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Yellow Gumamela

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. ~ John Lennon

Be grateful for and celebrate the beauty in all things because beauty is everywhere; and ignore all limitations and boundaries wherever they are found, because they are illusion. ~ David Sanders

I think over again my small adventures,
my fears, those small ones that seemed so big,
all those vital things I had to get and to reach,
and yet there is only one great thing:
to live and see the great day that dawns,
and the light that fills the world.

~ Innuit Traditional Song

Grant me daily the grace of gratitude, to be thankful for all my many gifts, and so be freed from artificial needs, that I might lead a joyful, simple life. ~ Edward Hays

 

 

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Gumamela

Hibiscus, Gumamela

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.  

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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White & Yellow Hibiscus

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. 

~ Marcel Proust

Hibiscus, Gumamela, Tapolanga

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Double Peach Hibiscus

Hibiscus, Gumamela, Tapolanga

Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.  ~ Henry Ward Beecher

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Peach Hibiscus

Hibiscus, Gumamela, Tapolanga

A rain-kissed hibiscus at a garden in Quezon.
With hundreds of hybrids, I have no idea what this peach Hibiscus is called. 

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" A flower must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won't come true."

~ Ray Evans

Red and Pink Hibiscus

Each day, awakening, are we asked  to paint the sky blue?  Need we coax the sun to rise or flowers to bloom?  Need we teach birds to sing, or children to laugh, or lovers to kiss?  No, though we think the world imperfect, it surrounds us each day with its perfections.  We are asked only to appreciate them, and to show appreciation by living in peaceful harmony amidst them.  The Creator does not ask that we create a perfect world; He asks that we celebrate it.  ~ Robert Brault

Hibiscus, Gumamela, Tapolanga

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Mellow Yellow Monday #24: Fading Hibiscus

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If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.  ~ John Lancaster Spalding

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Red Gumamela

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Gumamela, China Rose, Hibiscus rosa-sinensis Linn

Hibiscus locally known as gumamela is cultivated as an ornamental flower throughout the Philippines.  It is also a primary ingredient in many herbal teas. Gumamela flowers are used as an expectorant in bronchitis, for general coughs, and as a refrigerant drink in fevers.  It is also used on mumps, hematomas, headaches and urinary tract infection.  It is known to treat tumors, also as purgative and laxative. (Source:  Filipino Herbs Healing Wonders)

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Pink Hibiscus

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Hibiscus (Gumamela)

Give and take...

For to the bee, a flower is a fountain of life

and to the flower, a bee is a messenger of love

and to both, bee and flower,

the giving and the receiving is a need and an ecstasy.

- Kahlil Gibran

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