More Plants And Blooms
How my garden looks now. My pigeon pea plants (kadyos) are growing nicely at the back garden. I planted a lone avocado seed in a pot two months ago, it is now more than a foot tall. Since I don’t have anymore space to plant another avocado tree, maybe I’ll just send it to the province.
The sun is peeking in amidst the lush blue ternatea vines.
My mulberry tree is as tall as I am now. Jom, our neighbor gave it as a twig a few months ago.
And the bleeding hearts are blooming again. I have to trim some branches because they are climbing my jackfruit tree.
More flowers…my blue ternatea. Gonna make tea drinks out of these later.
My lone okra which was left from the previous planting.
Taro leaves…anyone? They are so tall and robust.
Gardening is such a joy when you see those blooms. They make you smile.
Waiting For Sunny Days
Busy, busy Thursday morning. Several loads of laundry and the sun is not even shining. It is again obscured by clouds.
I was thinking, today is August 23, eight days more to go before the BER months. Aren’t you excited? Well, I am. It only means December is getting near.
Gosh, how time flies. It may sound a bit redundant but it really does. Before you know it, 2018 would just be a leaf in the calendar. And here we are, getting older but still enjoying what life deals us every day. The little things, the seemingly insignificant things that sometimes we just take for granted really make life worthwhile.
The other day, I spent a little time in the garden pruning our fruiting kalamansi trees, I have to prune the small trunks touching the steel matting fence we have to give way to my growing blue ternatea plants. They…
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Busy Hands
Digging, pruning, weeding replanting.
I spent the late afternoon in the garden. With the little breeze coming in, it was the perfect time to garden. Replanted some Vinca seedlings which I found inside the pot of my Bougainvillea. The soil was soft, I guess from the previous rains we had a few days ago. Maybe tomorrow if the good weather holds, I’ll be done weeding and pruning my Fokien tea plants.
While I was admiring the new pink lily blooms, I saw this lovely insect in one of its petals. I am pretty sure it was not a butterfly because of its large body and clipped wings. I loved its color of pale green with black spots on the side. I was about to get my camera phone when it flew towards our kalamansi trees. I could not distinguish the leaves and the flying insect so I let it be…
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Finally!
I can’t help but be happy about this. My blue ternatea’s first bloom! Planted this a few months ago. The seeds were given by our friendly neighbor. It is thriving so well.
Let Them Grow
I uprooted the sweet potato vines early this morning. We locally call it “camote”. We usually use the young leaves for our sinigang or just steam them for a few minutes and make them into a salad. I replanted a few healthy stems and maybe in a month, they’ll give fresh young leaves again.
I also planted the Roselle seeds that a friend gave me together with the other seeds from his farm. I am not really familiar with how Roselle looks like. It belongs to the family of hibiscus and the flowers are lovely. And it is edible. Wow! All I have left for planting now are the burgundy okra seeds. Maybe when the others have grown, I will think of where to put the latter. The blue ternatea are slowly climbing the steel matting we put on top of our concrete perimeter fence. I planted the white…
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Health And Garden Watch
It took me a week to see an ophthalmologist. Finally though yesterday, I was able to see one. The doctor suggested I go to the hospital so she could do the necessary tests for my myopic eyes and matured cataract. It is my left eye which is affected and may need an operation later. She said it is an outpatient procedure and will only take an hour. It is quite expensive of course but I am praying my health insurance would cover it all. I asked her if reading so often did that but she said we will all have cataract one way or another when we grow old. Being hypertensive and diabetic may have contributed to it though. One thing that most of us openly ignore is our vision. I don’t normally go to an optometrist or an eye specialist except when I change lenses for my eye-glass. I…
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Blessed
About three weeks ago, I removed the branches of our guava tree because it has dried it. All that was left was the main trunk which I cut a little too low. I thought it was going to die but imagine my surprise when I saw new leaves atop the main trunk and they look so healthy.
I guess I have to wait a little while before it produces fruits again. Our two jackfruit trees are showing off. I counted the fruits all in various stages of growth, fifteen in all. Who knows, it might still bear fruits in the coming days. I took some shots of them.
A few more days and one is ready for harvest. When you are blessed, you truly are.
Happy Wednesday
Finally, finally I’m done with my monthly ritual of trimming the carabao grass. It’s a good thing that for the past two days, the afternoons were breezy. Just right for gardening.
The rocks behind and in front of this very small Mayana stem used to be a design of a long rectangular flat pot for my Bonsai Juniper but after only about three years, it died on me. I don’t know how to take care of Bonsai plants. Even the Bonsai Tamarind which the landscape gardener put in a corner of the garden died too after one or two fruiting season. Maybe they really need special care that I don’t know about.
Our compost pit is now ready for use. The lower part is just right to use for planting, the leaves and veggie peelings have turned into a rich soil. Since I don’t have extra pots for my remaining …
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Morning Blooms
It’s a lovely Tuesday morning. The sun is out and it’s shining bright. Perfect time to visit the garden.
Hydrangea
I recently bought some Mayana plant, Marigold and a pot of blue Hydrangea. I used to grow the latter several years ago in different colors but they died because of too much heat. Now I placed it in a partial shade.
I just love the color of this Hydrangea. I wish I could propagate more. Re-learning how to nurture it. No direct sunlight for this one. Just like the Marigold and Mayana, it is susceptible to heat.
A green Mayana
I replanted the eggplant seedlings in more pots near my two mulberries. To see those germinated seeds growing. Even my bottle gourds are starting to climb the permanent trellis we have at the back of the house.
Bloom Where You Are Planted
I miss the flowers in my garden.
Ever since we had it landscaped eight years ago, some flowering plants were replaced by greens – Fukien tea, gold dust plant, Tagaytay cherries (Bonsai when they were planted but now they have grown). Our lone Gardenia died on us last year. I didn’t think of propagating it when it was alive.
Crossandra blooms and shrimp plants though are flowering all over the garden and my Amazon Lily gives its occasional bloom twice or thrice a year. My Shamrocks (oxalis) produce tiny white flowers non-stop. I have them in green and purple.
A portion of my carabao grass is dying. I don’t know why, maybe the soil is no longer that conducive for the grass. I am thinking of having it replaced bu then the Thai bamboo which we put on top of our concrete fence needs replacement too. It is quite expensive to…
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