Wow! A New Post!

I know, I know. It's been a long time. Let's just say that I've been very distracted. I also found the camera! (quite a while ago. ;-)

I was wondering if I could enlist all of your help with identifying the plants in my front yard. I only know that I have bouganvilla at the end, and some sort of iris toward the middle. Plants are not my strong suit, though I really like them. (Heather, you're going to get your photos!!!)

The plant that's nagging at me the most is the big pink bushy thing on the right hand side of the house in the above photo. Here is a shot of its flower.
It's closed because it's been cool. When they're open, they look somewhat like a hibiscus flower... like a lot of flowers do around here it seems. haha.

Another plant is the one with the long stems sticking out with small oval reddish-green leaves on either side. The flower from that plant looks like this:

And finally, the last plant that currently has me stumped has
green and yellow leaves.


I know I could probably do searches on the internet for this stuff, but I'm not sure where to start and figured I could pick all your magnificent brains for info first. :)

Better posts for next time!