Indoor Shots And More Blooms
I so love my tab, it is so easy to point and click, capture some blooms and freeze them forever. Mom says she likes all the flowers blooming in our small garden.
A few days ago, I blogged about this, newly planted. My purple shamrock. I have this in green but they are in bigger pots.
I love the pink ones though. I also have them in white.
Garden Scents
Just so lazy to make another post so I’ll just reblog this here.
I went back to gardening after letting my hands heal for a few days. Goodness, I have to trim the carabao grass again, they have grown quite wild in three weeks.
This morning I was at the garden at 5am, still dark for some but it was nice to see the world unfolding with a hot cup of coffee and the company of our dog Noki. Mimi went back to sleep besides mom as soon as I opened the door to our dirty kitchen. Have you ever spent an early morning smelling different garden scents? The sweet aroma and spicy scent of oregano, the spicy and sharp fragrance of ginger leaves that linger, the lemony smell of calamansi flowers and the intoxicating scent of gardenia flowers captivate the senses. You wish you could put each scent in a bottle and maybe use them to make scented candles.
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July Bloom
It hasn’t rained for more about three days now so I have to go out and water the Ruellia plants I lined up outside our perimeter wall. While I was watering the plants, I noticed this lovely bloom. It was just a month ago when we trimmed this shrub and all that were left were the big trunks and a few leaves. Look at it now, this is such another lovely surprise.
I noticed more buds at the tip of each remaining branch. And I though I have to wait for a few more months before I see a bloom. My Gardenia shrub usually don’t bear flowers this late. It’s the rainy season here now so I didn’t expect this.
What a lovely morning🙂
The Rewards After
After a few days of a back-breaking job, it’s finally done. I’ve finished trimming the carabao grass and replanting some plants. There is still one corner though that I haven’t touched. I wonder if I could manage to do it alone. I took a few shots yesterday morning of the Vietnam Rose.
Vietnam rose and prayer plants. One corner of the garden.
This is how the flowers look in the early morning…still buds.
Once the sun shows its face…..
I love all the colors. Planted a red one early this morning.
In clusters, they look like this….
In front of the house, across the street.
Vietnam rose and white Vinca.
The rewards of gardening. When Nature shows its face, you can only smile and say, “I am blessed”.
It’s A Nice Morning To Garden
It’s so wonderful that listening to music at 3:50am would give you that much-needed lift to face another day…..gardening! I am excited though, even if my hands look like gnarled roots from an old tree, rough with age.
The Ruellia I planted outside is thriving well. My Vietnam Rose blooms every day with so many colors of flowers. I haven’t taken photos of them yet except these:
Another attempt at macro…my lovely purple Ruellia.
More purple blooms . they also come in pink and white.
Pink Ruellia
Pink Vinca…
And my pink rain lilies are showing those tiny shoots. again. They are nice grown covers but they produce flowers during the rainy season. Next on the agenda, I have to repot these too. The bulbs are overcrowded.
My Amazon Lily in bloom.
“The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul. “ This is a lovely quote by Alfred Austin.
Time To Garden Again
Promises broken and often neglected. How’s that again, you ask? I promised myself that I would at least update this blog by posting once a month but two months are gone with nary a few words.
Anyway, I think the rainy season has officially started so I need to overhaul my garden before it gets drenched by so much water. It rains every day now, sometimes at different times of the day and night. One good thing that we won’t have to do is to maintain cleaning our outside garden with overgrown weeds. The subdivision finally decided to cement some portions of the sidewalk so two sides of my perimeter wall is now concrete but I asked them to leave space to plant shrubs and some low maintenance plants.
Three days ago, I started replanting some of my prayer plants, they have now occupied a row beneath my lone Gardenia. They get the morning sun though so it’s okay. Yesterday, I removed the dead roots of some plants we planted before and it was quite hard to do it. At least now, I could plant a few annuals which are easy to grow.
I started trimming the carabao grass very early this morning bu the sudden rain ruined my day. When the rain stopped, the sun was hot on my back so I have to postpone gardening again until maybe late this afternoon (if it does not rain). I took a couple of photos. They are not as good as those I normally take with my camera.
I still have to arrange those pebbles and rocks later. At least my prayer plants are all thriving well. By the way, on the center is a seven-pot planter container made of terracotta. I bought it several years ago but forgot all about it.
I planted it with several colors of Portulaca (Vietnam Rose) and a purple shamrock. There are more things to do, more plants to repot and transfer. I wonder if the two sacks of gardening soil would be enough.
What’s New In My Garden?
“It was such a pleasure to sink one’s hands into the warm earth, to feel at one’s fingertips the possibilities of the new season.” – Kate Morton
Such a shame! I only have about ninety posts here (this one is the 91st). I think this is the most neglected of all my five blogs here on WordPress. Anyway, I am again sharing some new blooms and newly planted ones in my small garden. Took all these shots from my tab so some are a bit grainy.
This plant is attractive when the young leaves have that orange hue, the leaves change back to all green as they mature.
I am thinking of uprooting this shrub altogether then have some stems replanted. It is growing wild but the flowers are just lovely.
Aren’t they lovely? They are my dwarf plumeria. I bought a little pot three years ago and it is nicely flowering. It is summer and the plants love the heat.
Josef bought me two of this last Sunday on our way to Church. It’s a cross between a fern and a palm but I don’t know its exact name. Come December, it might be big enough to use as Christmas tree in the garden.
Grown from seed, this blackberry is nicely thriving in the sun. I have five of this. a friend sent me some seeds a year ago. I wanted to plant them all but I don’t have enough space in the garden so they are just behind the house where they enjoy early morning sun.
And this is another surprise, my sweet-scented Gardenia. This is an early bloom since my lone shrub usually produces flowers during the month of May.
Our two Jackfruit trees are bearing fruits again. We have about nine big fruits now. Last month, I picked two young ones and cooked them in coconut cream. There are still so many small buds growing in all the branches. I hope they would mature like these.
And the nice surprise? Look! Josef discovered them only yesterday because they were covered by our potted Bromeliad. They are growing directly from the ground on a small branch sharing a small space with our other plants. I have to transfer some pots so they could breathe.
The joys of gardening, it really made my morning.
Gardening Blues
It’s been two months since I posted here. Unlike my main blog Dreams and Escapes, which I update almost every day, I have neglected updating my other blogs. It is even harder now to post since I am just using my tab. My PC has completely given up on me, what a shame.
Yesterday, I started gardening again uprooting weeds, removing dried leaves , pruning and doing the whole rigmarole of tending a garden. I was excited to finally transfer my blackberry seedlings to the ground. I am wondering when it will bear fruits. A friend who gave the seeds to me said that it is not a high-maintenance plant. I also planted two onion bulbs in pots and transferred a few shoots of pandan.
I finally learned taking shots of my garden blooms using my new camera and my tab instead of my Canon camera.
The joys of gardening – chasing thoughts in your head and listening to silent words while pulling a stubborn weed – priceless moments savouring the language of silence.
Queen Of The Garden
Her name is Kuchi, a Japanese Spitz and she’s been with us for the last three or four years. I could not exactly remember the date, she was just given by a friend and neighbor to us. She romps with our two other dogs but sometimes lords it over the garden. She has a snow-white coat and I love her tail, a rich fringe of long hair and curled over the back.
Considering her size, she can disturb the whole neighborhood when she barks.
Roses, Always Roses
My youngest brother is such a thoughtful soul. He called me up from Tulsa, OK at exactly 12am yesterday just to greet me a happy birthday. We talked for almost an hour. Yes we could stay talking that long about anything under the sun but it is always about our family mostly. The funny thing is, he is such a funny guy too. Laughter is not far behind when we are on the phone so many miles from each other.
He filled my phone with 59 birthday greetings, can you believe? We laughed and I asked him, “did you count?” It is one unforgettable birthday, turning 59, that is!
And yes, he sent me this lovely photo of the roses growing in their garden. How nice!
Every Flower Is A Soul Blossoming In Nature
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