The last time this guy flowered was when I was incapacitated, bed-bound and suffering from a back injury. I remember my daughter Hanan went out and took a picture of it showing me it’s first flowering in our garden ever.
Well, it’s flowering again, a whole three years between the last time it did so and now.
I am thrilled!
I must confess that I have a very soft spot for Euphorbia Millis, with this that I picked up from Jawad’s – of all places – it brings the total types that I have of this fabulous plant to 4. Look through my Flickr stream to see the others. This one is quite cute, the red flowers as you can see are deep red, but enclosed in them are pretty yellow ones. Very pretty.
With this my friends, I wish you a very happy a peaceful Friday.
This passiflora really enjoys its new position, it’s mother plant died unfortunately, but from a little sapling, this thing is covering most of the wall. It’s the first time that it actually produces this much fruit. Not sure if I’ll eat them (some passion fruit are poisonous – I tried one before from the mother plant but it was quite bland) but it’s sure is good enough to have in the garden.
Have a wonderful Friday my friends.
This is an escapee. Yes it is!
I found this growing in the corner of the vegetable patch and seemed to be doing well enough. I told everyone to leave it alone (otherwise the gardener might have have pulled it out and threw it thinking it to be “kachra”!)
I noticed about a week ago that it was starting to bud, which meant that it was flowering soon and with that I might be able to identify it. I did this morning. I rooted through the collection of seed packets I planted last year and found it! It’s a Cleome spinosa aka “spider plant”.
Now that I know that it’s successful, I’ll wait for the seed pods and will plant them directly into the ground for next year.
Anyone want to exchange seeds of exotic plants?
This is possibly one of my laziest uploads. In truth, I wanted to label the “love-lies-bleeding” plant which I have grown from seed and then completely forgot that I planted it there! I hope it turns into a perennial as it is very pretty indeed!
We also harvested a bunch of bananas and chopped its mother plant down a couple of days ago. The bananas produced are HUGE. I’ll upload a picture of those tomorrow.
Oh, that’s the cat proving once again that he’s a house-cat. Running around (going berserk, rather) completely knocks him out and he turns into a panting ball of fluff who still defies being caught.
I hope you are having a wonderful Friday and I wish you well for the rest of the long weekend… Happy May Day too.
It’s been the first time in quite a while that I have had the time (and inclination) to potter around in the garden, and you know what? I thoroughly enjoyed it.
What you see in the picture are some of the results of the vegetable patch; namely the last of the spring onions, a lonely remaining cabbage and a handful of chili peppers which I forgot that I had in there too!
I’ve removed quite a patch of mint which I suspect that I have to revisit and properly clean up as it has spread beyond the borders of the patch which made the whole place quite ungainly.
Once the vegetable patch was done, I decided to prune a few shrubs and trees; I started with a lantana that was threatening to take over another flower bed by the pool, then attacked a very young olive (the second I brought back from a recent trip to Italy). After dead-heading a few dwarf sunflowers (and saving the seedheads for next season) I cleaned up the two main hibiscus shrubs one in a small flower bed by the breakfast nook window and another by the living room.
Other plants I managed to prune and clean up today were the tacomaria, the queen of the night, a couple of ful, the outside bottle-brush and a few others here and there.
All in all, it was an excellent afternoon both for myself and my garden – I hope!
The first time I planted a vine about a year (or two) ago, I think I bought that plant from the garden show too. I planted that one in approximately the same location as I chose for the new one I planted today, the difference though is in the pruning, and the experience. Then, I chopped that poor thing almost to the ground misinterpretting what I read about vines. Of course it never recovered.
This time I hope to be better.
Time, of course, would tell. Would appreciate pointers if you have experience planting vines in Bahrain.
Have a wonderful Friday.
I wanted to get this palm since I laid eyes on them the first time I visited Malaysia. This time, I made sure that I got one and here it is planted in a prime location in the garden. I hope that it will take.
Grown from seed. I never thought I would be successful with this one for some reason, but the 7-inch flower is proving me wrong!
