My banana tree is bearing fruit! Just got back from Morocco to this scene, I am very excited and can’t wait to sample its wares!
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Summer Flowering Hippaestrum
This is such a beautiful plant, and to have it actually flower at this time of year, in Bahrain, when the temperatures outside go between 35 – 45 celcius is such a thrill.
Water lilies
The water lilies seem to have settled in their new home. I’ve got three blooms at the same time now, makes me really happy – especially that these blooms are an affirmation that they didn’t suffer to much from the abuse I subjected their plant to when I decided to move it.
Have a wonderful Friday my friends.
Diamond in the rough
I couldn’t believe my eyes when I drove over a waste ground this afternoon and was faced with a huge number of these flowers growing by themselves in the wild. I had to get out of my car to investigate and was gobsmacked to find out that these bushes (and plenty of them) are capers!
There are literally hundreds of these flowers in the bushes, and as you will see from this collection, they are simply surrounded by rubbish!
Diamonds in the rough?
Well, if you look for something nice, you could even find it in what seems to be a desolate ground.
Waning ice-plant
I love these plants, quite unassuming as they grow, but come summer and BANG! Full of colour!
Have a wonderful, safe and peaceful weekend my friends.
Breakfast
Rose-ringed parakeets come to our garden every morning for the breakfast we put out to them. They must like it very much and appreciate it as their numbers increased over time. They actually wait on the surrounding trees and make such a racket until one of us gets out and puts breakfast out!
But it’s something we really enjoy. They are fun to watch as we’re having breakfast!
The front path
Did some work in the garden this morning, the first chance I’ve had for some time now. I trimmed the golden ficus bushes and did general cleaning up and removing dead plants etc. I’ll have another go at it again this afternoon and maybe tomorrow too if I’m lucky.
Have a wonderful Friday my friends.
Building the orchid wall
I bought quite a few orchids from the Thai stall in the recent Bahrain Int’l Garden Show, but as I was rather busy and had a trip abroad, I didn’t have a chance to do anything with them other than hang them on the light fittings in my study and leave some on the floor.
In the interim, I obviously gave them much thought as how to best display them and thought that it might be best hanging from a wall or a trellis. I had a really complicated design in mind with jute sacks and misting systems, but in the end, I opted for a very simple idea. Just a simple right-angle trellis and stand it at the entrance to my study!
I went to Manazil this morning and bought these wrought iron trellises, one is 7 foot while the other is 6 foot. I stood them next to each other and tied them together with tie-wraps to create a middle hinge. That worked fine, so the next thing to do is to actually arrange the flowers.
I hope you will see the end result from the next couple of pictures.
Have a wonderful Friday and weekend my friends.
Orchids!
Frances and I are just back from the Garden Show, and these babies are her present to me for my birthday tomorrow. I don’t care very much for the birthday as taking care of these over the next few months… I’ve got plans!! 
Have a wonderful weekend my friends!
Produce, just picked!
We just picked these beauties from the vegetable patch, the first ever (other than herbs). I shall enjoy eating these, and tonight, I’m going to have a tomato festival based on that single beauty on the tray!