I completely ignored these shrubs (and garden) for the last few months as I have been really busy, add to that the fact that we are repainting the house so it’s surrounded with scaffolding an up to 10 painters stomping all over the garden and you get the idea.
Having said that, I am determined to restart my green-thumb campaign come the new season in September.
Have a wonderful (and spicy!) weekend my friends.
The colours in the early evening in the garden are out of this world. Maybe I should shift my photography to early evening, it’d be worth it.
Summer is almost at its hight here and it is merciless to the plants, only the toughest survive. Plumerias are definitely tough and very adaptable.
I planted this one just outside of our house and for all the abuse it gets (cars, children, passing fanciers picking its flowers, hostile environment) it continues to grow quite well.
Have a wonderful and fragrant weekend my friends.
I love this plant, so flexible and easy to take care of. It looks good no matter way you put it too!
Have a wonderful Friday my friends.
Have a wonderful Friday my friends. Peace.
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 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.
Have a wonderful Friday my friends!
I love just sitting at the window and watching various birds enjoying themselves in the bird bath. I really don’t think that a garden can be called a garden without a bird bath because it’s such a part of the experience too.
Have a wonderful and peaceful weekend my friends.
Mahmood’s Den
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