Waiting
It’s been a while since I took pictures of our garden. Last weekend, we had the roof and the perimeter fence repainted and the two painters left extra paint so I retouched our grotto and our concrete garden set. Then I noticed this, my Amazon lily is in bloom again. Can’t wait to see the white scented blooms.
my Amazon lily
The only flowers growing here now are my crossandra, bleeding hearts, pink angel flowers and my shrimp plants. The two jackfruit trees are laden with fruits though.
Golden candle, also known as shrimp plant
Bleeding hearts… they must be lonely :)
Crossandra, I have these flowers as grown covers outside my bedroom window, lovely orange blooms that greet me every morning.
Until now I am wondering at the real name of these flowers. I only know them as pink angels.
Jackfruit, anyone?
Sweet Basil
Two weeks ago, Josef and I chanced upon some fresh Basil at Pasig market, tried planting a small shoot, I was surprised it is pleasantly thriving.
You’ll probably think these are variegated oregano but they’re not. One of the painters we hired last weekend accidentally dropped a small can of paint while retouching our roof, short of cutting all the leaves with the paint smear, I’ll just wait for it to grow again. I have plenty of them behind the house anyway.
I’ve missed taking pics and these are my latest shots.
Garden Accessories
I am dreaming of having a gazing globe in my garden, something that would reflect the light and capture the images there. I wonder where I could buy one.
I remember these two garden accessories that my brother has installed in our wild garden in the province. They look so lovely when they are lighted at night, making pockets of shadows in the garden.
Nostalgic Moments (Revisiting Our Garden At Home)
A home away from home.
It’s almost four years now since I went home to the province to bond with some of our relatives and visit our garden there. I miss the times that I used to bring my camera and take shots of every growing flowers there and wish I could bring them back home to Manila. I don’t have enough space though so it would just have to be in pictures.
I am quite ashamed I haven’t updated this gardening blog for quite a while. Maybe, I’ll make a simple resolution to post something every week (easier said than done). I won’t make promises but we’ll see. Here are some favorite photos that I took the last time I was there, always with my then eight-year old niece in tow.
The first time I’ve seen this Powder Puff plant, I wanted to have it in my own little garden here in the city.
My brother had this ingenious idea of putting light in the garden. It was attached to one of our coconut trees near our gate.
That old garden bench has witnessed a lot of bonding with my niece – short stories that she sometimes invents, activities in school, food and books.
Jackfruit, anyone? They have a few fruit-bearing trees there including this.
A variegated Vietnam Rose.
Wild yellow flowers growing at our front gate. I don’t know its name, do you?
I miss these greens….
These Agaves are lined up along the road fronting the house.
And they still use firewood there which Mom gathers from our backyard. Some are fallen trees destroyed by typhoons. Mom has a small separate place where she cooks using firewood.
Wild but lovely….
Dwarf coconut trees planted by my late dad are interspersed with palm trees.
When I took this shot, I wondered if the flower was eaten by insects but it was naturally shaped that way.
Pink Over Red?
Pretty in pink…
And in red too….
A few days ago, I blogged about the new buds of my pink Mokara orchids. Here they are in full bloom now. The red blooms are just as pretty as the pink ones.
What a lovely way to greet the morning!
Life In Our Neighborhood
This is just lovely. I gave about half a kilo of freshly picked calamansi (Philippine lime) to one of our neighbors and she gave me back two lemons from her backyard plus a pot of Korean ginseng. This is the first time I’ve seen a Korean ginseng plant and she told me that the flowers are red like berries. She’s been growing this pot for about a year now from the mother plant. Ginseng has lots of medicinal value. What I’ve only seen in pictures are the roots of matured plant. Really looking forward to seeing it grow. Will take some pictures tomorrow and attach them here.
Last week, another neighbor gifted me with a Zamia plant. I re-potted it into three pots. Aren’t I lucky? These are quite expensive when you buy them in garden centers. Early Christmas gifts, what do you say?
Zamia…I love its shiny leaves.
I put them out in full morning sun everyday until around 10am. The three pots are thriving pretty well. I am planning to transfer some of my Crossandra plants tomorrow and use them as ground covers outside my bedroom window. I hope I would be able to wake up early to do a little gardening.
Seeing Is Believing
I feel guilty.
For several months now, I’ve neglected updating this blog. All I got to show were some reblogged posts from my main blog here at WordPress. I’ve finally finished trimming, weeding and replanting – the whole rigmarole of maintaining a small garden. Of course, this post won’t be complete without some pictures I recently took of the flowers growing there. No matter how small a garden is, it takes much of your time but it is always a delight for those lovely surprises that it brings.
Red Mokara Orchids
Can’t wait for these buds to bloom :)
I took this close-up shot early this morning. Would love to document everything here. Months from now, when it blooms again, I would remember this, the time I wondered how the flowers would look, the times I repeatedly looked out of the window to admire it. Gosh, i’m crazy when it comes to flowers :)
Oh, there is a bonus.
His name is Noki.
This is Noki, a gift from a friend. He is a half-bred Labrador/Japanese Spitz. So playful and naughty. When I’m in the garden, he would inch his big body near our fence and bark his lungs out at the passersby. I also just harvested more than a kilo of Calamansi (Philippine lime) and gave some to our neighbors.
The joys of gardening…..so priceless!
Rainy Days And Mondays
I stand guilty! I’ve neglected this blog for quite sometime now and to make up for it, I just re-blog some of my posts from my main blog from time to time. Gosh, it is hard to maintain four blogs at the same time. You always seem to favor that particular blog where you get visitors and comments. I am not complaining though because I am trying to lessen posting pictures at Dreams and Escapes, I only have 35% more on the allowed limits while this one needs a little lift and update.
Just visited my garden blooms after the rain. It was quite a surprise to see new blooms. I could not resist taking a few shots. It’s been a while since I posted garden pics.
I planted these dainty rain lilies as ground covers in between my rounded Fukien tea plants. Some are planted in small pots and they are all in bloom.
Can you see all those buds and flowers? This is my lovely pink Hoya.
Ah, my pink-striped lily ready to show its face. I replanted this just a month ago.
They add a bit of life to the garden.
My calamansi tree with the golden candle flower underneath.
