Gardener’s Dream

Yesterday, I had an early morning visit to the garden. I pruned our Arius tree, trimmed my Kamuning plants and repotted some that I bought two months ago. Then I took these photos.

It used to be pink then it turned into orange again.

Yeay, my Shaghai Beauty.

My new pots. Repotted some of the plants I bought two months ago.

Can you see that tiny bud. It’s my first time to grow Camia.

And these….my new shrimp plants.

This Is Just Lovely

One of Nissa’s gifts during my birthday is this lovely plant called Rattlesnake Calathea (the one in the middle). It is commonly called prayer plant. I have another variety of this in my garden.

I didn’t even know that this could be used as indoor plant. I transferred and repotted some plants yesterday. The garden is doing good.

Oh, To See Such Lovely Blooms

Spent the early morning weeding and admiring the flowers in my garden. I have some new ones I bought yesterday. Delivery of the plants was free.

I finally found whìte Aster, an addition to my addiction to white flowers.

It is called Snow White. The leaves turn variegated white as it grows.

It is called Bacularis, a family of snake plants. The leaves are rounded.

Sweet Basil. I hope it grows well so I could make pesto sauce.

A white Zinnia

So lucky to have two colors of Zinnia in one pot.

I love those yellow Zinnia flowers.

Java Mint. Tried it in a hot cup of coffee this morning. It was so good.

I was not lucky in the past to grow eggplants so I bought two pots.

Poprice, a family of Sedum

I have a pot of Parsley….finally.

Locally, they call this Palong. It’s Celosia. Tried growing some from seeds but they died after one flowering.

A pink Begonia. I am looking for a red one.

Look, this eggplant has flowers.

What’s In A Garden

Ah, I could not get enough of the flowers in my garden. Ibwant to document every bloom. I already transferred my button plants along with the two Aster I bought a few days ago.

My Bridal Bouquet is blooming now.

They call this White Angel and the flowers are quite similar to the Kamuning blooms and Bridal Bouquet.

A close-up of my Aster bloom.

I just bought two pots.

Planted these violet and white Button plants in a corner. They are thriving well.

They call this Devil’s Backbone. I need to replant them but I don’t have enough pots.

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.

Flowers And Blooms

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.

 

 

 

Catching Up

It’s been a while. Such a lovely weather for gardening. There was a soft breeze blowing  and it was really nice to stay in the garden.

Three days ago  I  transferred the two mulberry  cuttings  that a neighbor gave us a week ago. They are both sprouting green leaves. I also planted some okra seeds side by side with it. By the time it has grown, my okra would have died.

I bought two plastic  pots where I transferred some of my dwarf snake plants.  They are crowding my round pot where they were previously planted. They are easy maintenance  plants and do not need much watering. They are ideal for indoors.

 

Our compost  pit is now ready. The vegetable skins, weeds and leaves that we used to throw there have now turned into a rich soil  that we could use for planting.

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.

Ruellias are easy to care plants. They self-propagate so all you have to do is transfer them to a sunny pot in the garden. These purple flowers are similar to Petunia blooms.

I love the pink ones though. I also have them in white.

Trying to take a macro shot of this Ornamental Pineapple plant.

Japanese Bamboo is a sturdy indoor plant, it needs minimal care.

I was trying to capture that curved stem. I should have used my Canon camera for this shot.

Purslane or Portulaca, plant them today and tomorrow it would surprise you with lovely tiny blooms.

Thick dark clouds, threatening and promising rain.

Today, the sun is shining bright and clear.  Perfect time to garden again. My three pots of turmeric are thriving nicely, their leaves are showing off. Have a good day everyone. Let us enjoy the sun.

“Close to nature, closer to God.”

 

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.