More Blooms In My Garden
Took more shots of my garden plants early this morning, those which I haven’t taken photos of a few days ago. There are very few flowers but I love the greens just the same. I’m posting them here in high-resolution shots. Some are macro shots of the flowers.
My Arius tree
Dwarf sansevieria in clusters
Locally we call these Baston ni San Jose, Amazon Lily without the flowers
A macro shot of my Bleeding Hearts
Crossandra are everywhere even at the back of the house
My lone Palm tree. It’s growing tall.
A close up of my Pink angel
Until now, I still could not identify this plant. The flowers are red when they bloom but they turn this color afterwards.
I wonder why this Adenium has split petals. I took shot too a week ago when it was just a bud.
There is a bud now.
And all I have left is the green Mayana.
This is also good as an indoor plant but Oreo keeps playing with the leaves so I have to bring it outside.
Greens
Took some more shots of my ornamental plants early this morning. More greens in the garden.
Planted this a year ago as a very thin cuttings then when it bloomed, it rewarded me with a very nice and soothing scent.
I keep forgetting its name.
I know this as white grass. Do you know its scientific name?
My larged-leaf taro. It’s edible. I use it for my “laing”.
My Eugenia plant. You can shape it any way you want.
Bougainvillea flowers atop my Arius tree.
I think this still belongs to the family of Caladium.
A flowering Adenium
My prayer plants. They fold their leaves in the afternoon.
Most of them are green, my flowering plants are just the Vinca, Zinnia, Fukien Tea, Crossandra, Bougainvillea, Bleeding Hearts, Pink Angels and Shrimp plants.
Practicing With My New Camera Phone
It’s been a while, and I mean the last time I updated this site was more than two months ago. I love my new phone camera. So easy to take photos. Tried it again this morning taking photos of plants thriving in the garden.
Fire spike or mottled toothed thread.
When the flowers mature, they would look like green Celosia.
They are called Golden Candle or shrimp plants.
My Pink Angels but I am sure there is another name for it.
This is where my Gardenia used to be. I miss its lovely and scented blooms.
My Crossandra flowers. They bloom everywhere in the garden.
Bleeding Hearts. Would you believe, the actual flowers are the red ones at the tip.
My Calamansi trees. Can you see the green and light yellow fruits?
The Joy Of Seeing New Blooms
I planted Zinnia seeds in different shades of pink a few months ago. They did flower and are still flowering at the moment.
This morning, I was surprised to find a lone bloom in the pretty shade of yellow. What a thrill. It was a nice surprise.
And my Shanghai Beauty is showing beautiful pink blooms again. I would just trim it when the flowers have dried up.
The joys of gardening, they give that nice bit of heaven when you least expect them.
I have harvested almost a kilo of kalamansi (Philippine lime), divided them into three small plastic bags for our neighbors. One of them gave me seeds from her pink Four O’Clock blooms. In a few months, I expect to have those pretty pink blooms which usually appear at four o’clock in the afternoon.
Don’t you just love gardening?
When Gardening Becomes A Chore
Finally, I’m done weeding outside but I have two blistered fingers despite wearing gloves. Some weeds are so hard to uproot but I have to do it. My snake plants can’t grow well because of these stubborn weeds. At least half of the job is done. There is still the carabao grass to trim and the Fukien Tea plants and Pandakaki too.
My Pandakaki blooms. There are several but they are so tiny.
Carabao grass
I hate trimming the carabao grass. We have to use a manual grass cutter because there are lots of concrete stepping stones in between. Hopefully by the weekend, Josef can help me with it. We also need to trim the Santan plants in front of our concrete fence. They are the dwarf variety but they are growing tall.
my front garden
Side yard with my two Calamansi trees
Ornamental pineapple and my bulb plant. The…
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A Nice Surprise
Tried growing these small Colocasia plants which I found alongside my Vinca. I used to have them in different colors but they always die a natural death sometime during the summer to resurface again when rainy season is near.
I put the three tubers in a bottle with water and they now have long roots. They are happily thriving inside our comfort room. They are also known as elephant ears or simply Taro or gabi in Tagalog. I have the green ones at one corner of the garden with large leaves.
This hasn’t unfurled yet but when it does, the leaves are large.
There are always surprises in the garden. Sometimes I find new shoots of plants that I used to have but have died on me for a time.
The garden is a place where we could spend those precious hours, head in the sun, dirt in your hands…
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Our Wild Garden In Patar (Part 2)
It’s nice to have a sensible 16-megapixel primary camera on your phone that you can use on those point and shoot subjects with a handy and compact phone. The truth is, I haven’t bought a replacement yet for my broken Canon Ixus camera so I am using all the three cameras on my tab and cellphones.
Going home is such a memorable thing. Even if we only stayed there overnight, I was able to visit those fruit trees some of which I helped Dad plant and nurture when he was still alive. They have a little plot for veggies now. I could no longer identify all the flowering plants growing there.
Not familiar with this flower.
I planned of taking home some shoots of this but I forgot.
When we woke up, our car was already clean. My brother took care of it.
San Francisco? I guess…
This driftwood has been in one corner of the garden since I can remember.
This hammock, spent a few minutes swinging myself here.
Love this bloom but I can’t also identify it.
A mixture of different plants…
Every time we come home, we always have buko juice at the ready.
Healthy and lovely bromeliads.
A white Bougainvillea
Love to have this color in my garden.
Love these double-petaled blooms too.
When I last came home, that street light in front of the house attached to the coconut tree was almost leveled with it. Now the tree is grown.
What’s this again? I’m hopeless.
Took shot of my nephew’s house near our place, a few meters across the road.
Countryside scenery that I’ve missed for so long. I brought home two jackfruits which I will cook later.
Latest Blooms
So I wouldn’t have to adjust these high res shots, I am posting them all here. So glad for the garden visit a while ago.
Pretty, pretty flowers in almost every tip. My dwarf pink Plumeria
My Orange lily. Planted them in several pots at the back of the garden and they are flowering now.
My ever reliable and sturdy Crossandra.
Yellow Shrimp plants. Replanted a few cuttings a few months again and they are now blooming too.
Why do I keep forgetting the name of this plant?
My blue ternatea. It has so many pods and I don’t know what to do with them. I collected the dried ones to give to friends and for future planting.
A Shrimp plant in different color and different shape.
I keep uprooting this one but it keeps on blooming. It is susceptible to aphids.
Ah, this is it. My kadyos (pigeon pea). Finally, I could see the flowers at the tip. It won’t take long before harvest. So excited.
I am nurturing an Orange Bougainvillea but it is taking so long to flower.
And it’s that kind of peace and quiet that you can only find in a garden.
Morning At The Garden
I wonder how many calories I burned doing three hours of gardening this morning. Yes, I started early around 6 am and stopped by almost 9 am with only a cup of coffee to go and the company of our “makulit” dog Noki. I am not done yet trimming the carabao grass. And I have to cut some dried leaves of my prayer plants.
A passive pursuit but a good morning exercise….gardening, that is. Anyway, I want to see the garden at its best this coming Christmas. My Bougainvillea blooms are doing a crazy dance in the morning breeze. I just love those clustered pink flowers. Once it starts flowering, it does not stop. It is a perennial plant and just right for our sunny weather. Our neighbor gave me some cuttings of cherries. I wonder if they will grow in our climate here. I’ll just try to grow them…
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