Inspired by a picture of a huge adenium in flower I saw in a Facebook friend’s profile, and others I have seen on the Internet and comparing them with what I have in a pot, I resolved to plant it in the ground and let it grow.
I believe I got the right spot for it. It’s now planted by the front gate right in the middle of the oriental-style gravel patch. Here it is:
The petunias and geraniums were way past their best I knew, but I just didn’t have the time or inclination to do anything about them, yet they did need to be removed and that we did this morning.
So now, instead of the untidily flowering geraniums and petunias, I’ve planted three colors of gazanias and three colors again of selocias – cockscombs – to grace both sides of the front path. As you can see from these pictures, our efforts should be rewarded soon with a multicolored, multi-textured borders.
This time, close-ups of its beautiful flowers too.
Penelope is on fire!
Only a couple of weeks ago this majestic tree adorning our front garden was bare. Naked. Unclothed. But within just a few days it has sprouted all of its leaves and buds which have now started to open up and, typical of this tree, started to shed the flowers all around it, sometimes making the lawn turn blood red with its lovely flowers.
Some would consider this tree very messy, we don’t mind at all. It’s a lovely sight and humans, animals and birds love it.
I think this is a “single” Sultani or as they’re called locally “Mohammedi” Rose. It has a very nice scent. Unforutnately some bugs have taken a shine to these and other bushes in my garden and they’re chomping at the leaves and damaging flowers. I’ll take some advice from the botanists in the Budaiya experimental farms and hope that they’ll identify what needs to be done, if anything.
Do you have any idea what’s chomping at my plants?
Isn’t this gorgeous?
I instantly fell in love with this plant when I saw its picture of a seed packet. Yes, I do fall in love easily, I admit, but this one is a bit different. And not so different at the same time. I love tall grasses and I have several clumps in the garden as well as outside the house, so I thought that this particular variety would add some good texture; the “tails”, as you can see, are particularly nice and they fill in the space they’re in very well.
To be honest, I didn’t think that they would survive, let alone thrive. Well, they’re doing very well so far and am looking forward to them surviving our punishing summer.
For now, I shall continue to enjoy them.
Remember a couple of days ago I posted that I was ecstatic that the adeniums by the pond in the front garden were budding? Well, I noticed this morning that one of them has bloomed! Happy happy. Love the deep red of this one.
I love hibiscus flowers. There are thousands of them I know, but they all obviously share some basics which distinguishes them from the others. I’ve had and still do have several bushes in my garden, unfortunately, they’re very susceptible to the dreaded mealy bug, especially in the summer, and as the summer is already here (and I’ve already had to uproot and young afflicted hollyhock) I do hope that they won’t suffer too much this season.
In any case, this is the first bloom in the two hibiscus bushes I planted in this location at the front garden. I’m very pleased with its dainty and organic appearance. Love the serration on its petals and that stile is quite magestic too, don’t you think?
These lovely clump of plants only started to thrive – after coming very close to death – when I put that mulch on all around them. The reason they were dying was the bloody cats were insisting on using that patch as their latrine!
I’m glad to say that I’m having good success with the mulch in that they’re not digging it up, except for Gimpy who’s immune to any sort of thought and he continues to go to his usual haunts and if the mulch is not deep enough, he would scrape that off and do his business. I’m seriously now considering mixing some black pepper or curry powder with the mulch in those areas.
Do you have any mehods of preventing cats to limit their latrine areas or keep them away from specifica patches? Would love to hear your thoughts.
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The Cassia Fistula‘s almost naked now, which means that it soon will sport chandaliers of yellow flower clumps to be followed by long and hard seed pods.
It sheds a couple of months later in Bahrain than it does in other parts of the world, its native south east asia mostly.
It looks like we’re going to be blessed with seeing its full glory this year. Some flower pods are already forming. Can’t wait to take some pictures.
However, its deciduous nature creates a lot of work for us as you can imagine 
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