The Buddha Patch survived the summer a lot better than I expected this time. Even the bamboo seem to have finally taken root and are really getting on. Buddha is happy!
Have a wonderful weekend my friends.
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Category Archives: Garden Design
The Olive Tree
The garden this morning.
Have a wonderful and safe weekend my friends.
Country Mix Buddha
Olive tree’s new growth
We brought this young olive tree – just about a meter and a bit in height – back with us from Italy. As I was worried about it suffering immediately if placed in the garden at that time, it was still a bit hot then, I planted it in a pot and left it inside for about a month or so. Once I saw new growth happening, I thought it was acclimatised enough to move into a prime spot in the garden, and that was exactly what I have done a few weeks ago.
Going out to inspect the garden this morning and take my customary Friday pictures, I noticed even newer growth on it since it has been planted in the garden. Needless to say, I am thrilled!
I planted a few complementary plants around it: 5 bunches of broad leaf grass (I don’t know exactly what it’s called and the garden centre I bought it from didn’t either – now their’s a surprise!) which brings out lovely small delicate light purple flowers. In between the grass I planted 3 or 4 carnations. I also placed a few asparagus to add texture to the spot.
I decided to go a step further in this area of the garden, which is on the right hand side of the main gate and is approximately 9 meters by 4.5 meters. I removed all the grass there and replaced it with two tonnes of RAK 10mm aggregate. I have created nice mounds of aggregate in there rather than leave it plain. I plan to rake it much in the style of Japanese gardens but after I find a large enough rock to place in it too. Even without that, I really like this new feature in my garden. I’ll now call it the “Olive plot”.
Have a wonderful Friday my friends!
Almost monochrome
Hardly any colour in the garden at the moment, but the new season is almost upon us and I have some new plans for my garden this year.
It’s gonna be hard and back breaking work but it should be worth it in the end…
Hey, it’s 888! Have a wonderful Friday my friends!
The Buddha patch
I can’t remember when it was that I showed you the Buddha patch last, so here it is as of a couple of hours ago. You can see how scorched some of the plants look. It’s summer. The death season for everything green!
Nevertheless, have a wonderful weekend my friends and happy gardening.
Beautiful front garden
This is a house located at the middle of the Saar avenue and a lot of people pass it every day. I personally get to pass it once in a while and every time I do, as I am sure the many hundreds or thousands of others that do, it fills me with admiration and a sense of happiness at the beauty of the arrangement that this house always sports, seasonally.
There are a few other houses like this in Bahrain, I hope that if you come across one, or know of one, please let me know. I’d like to go and have a look myself.
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.
My Garden
A stitched vertical panorama of my garden. This is one of my favourite views of the garden, at the back "alley" looking into the front garden.
It’s Winter now, so there is barely any colour, but come Spring that story will change and I hope that I will post a comparative photograph then to see what I mean.
Have a wonderful day!
Reclaiming the pool deck
The far side of the pool deck, by the changing and pump rooms, was neglected since we moved in really. I used that area exclusively to BBQs but when we’re not firing that thing up, the area remained rather dull and uninviting. I look at it every single meal time (you can’t miss it! it’s just opposite the kitchen and breakfast nook) I promise myself that I’ve got to do something with it but never get around to do it.
This morning, finally, I decided to install the hanging baskets bracks, put up the baskets and also remove the pile of wood I’d saved from a fallen tree. Those branches were cut in lengths of 40, 45, 50 and 60cms and created a patch of them lying next to each other demarkating the areas between the dry river bed by the frangipani and the oriental patch (with Mr. Buddha) it looked rather nice. But when I was done I was surprised to note the amount of space those logs were taking!
Anyway, I got that area cleaned up and just moved back and had a look at the "new" wall. I wasn’t satisfied. I thought I still needed some stuff there to bring out the whole area. Looking around, I saw that I had quite a number of pots on Arif’s (my son) basketball court which I had commandeered to be my nursery, so I started just moving pots and trying out different arrangements until I arrived at what you see in this picture. I think the balance now is really quite nice and am rather pleased with my efforts!
Have a wonderful Friday my friends.