Another of my favourite flowers in my garden. This is in my main pond just in front of my study.
Have a wonderful weekend my friends.
Waterlily
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Datura
The first of the season! I love this plant which I grew from seed a couple of years ago. Although heavily attacked by mealy bugs and fungus this year, it survived after I heavily pruned the worst affected parts. I look forward to more of its gorgeous flowers.
I’ve got some seeds if you want to add this lovely plant to your garden. Please contact me if you want some.
Have a wonderful Friday my friends.
Pink Nymph
The first hippaestrum to flower this season. This one we bought from Italy during a recent trip.
This one is dedicated to our daughter Amna who just turned 19. Have a wonderful birthday my love and see you soon!
Cactus flower (Ferocactus latispinus – Devil’s Tongue Barrel)
It’s the second time this barrel flowers, and since it last flowered, I had moved it into a pot and it seems to be doing okay and likes its new abode.
Have a wonderful weekend my friends.
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.
Scabious (Scarlet Empress)
It took so long for these lovely plants to flower, that I almost gave up on them. But am I glad that I didn’t! Quite distinctive flowers with lovely foliage too. I hope I will be able to harvest some seeds for next season.
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.
Japanese variegated hibiscus
I wasn’t very sure that this hibiscus would survive in my garden as it was looking rather poorly for quite a while, but am I really happy that it has filled out all of a sudden and today I see it has this glorious flower on it. Very pretty isn’t it?
Have a wonderful Friday and weekend AND I wish you a very happy Thanksgiving too.
God bless.
What gives?
Frances got me this Passiflora from her last trip to the UK which is labelled “Caerulea Constance Eliott” which is a completely white cultivar
… one that I was so looking forward to – but after months of it being in the ground, I am surprised today to see that a “regular” Passiflora had bloomed!
What gives?
Yes it is still beautiful, but but but…