Home Sweet Home

My old home in Central Tableland called Orange. When my girls and I first moved in, the place looked so desolate. It was plain, weedy vegetation thriving with hard rock soil. I built this garden from scratches without any chemical aid. My pride of organic gardening using kitchen scraps to soften and break the clayish red ground.



"Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Cheers!

Homegrown Succulents

Homegrown succulent beauties. They propagate like mad in my backyard. These plants do not require maintenance. You just plant and forget them. Yet, when they bloom, you really cannot escape wondering how their starlike blooms shine at daytime your eyes can't help but notice. They grow in semi shady place.

Azaleas in Today's Flowers

My 10th Entry

Thank you Luis Santilli Jr for creating Today's Flowers for us and your Team! Thank You Very Much!!!


To all the gardeners, horticulturists, and flower enthusiasts let's give Today's Flowers a big Hurray! It's time to visit Today's Flowers
and smell those sweet scented delights. TF Team on Board: Santilli - Denise - Pupo - Valkyrien

"In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful." ~Abram L. Urban

How nature works is clearly visible in this Azalea flower. The original color is pink as can be seen below the white with pinkish taint.
This is part of the garden landscape grown along the pathway outside my unit.



This is the original Pink Azalea of the same shrub as above and from below.



And this is the main plant of the pink-white Azalea. Like the lilac colour, this was also trimmed or pruned.




There is no other way I can describe this pretty Azalea in lilac hue. In just one shrub, how this sturdy plant gives off copious blooms.
Their buds spurt from this shrub generously.



When they finished blooming last year, I pruned them to discourage growth as they have the tendency to grow very high. I wanted them to look dwarfy but bushy. But nature cannot suppress their growth anyway. So I thought, I will try to eliminate overcrowding of branches to give more room for the flowers to spread out. And it looks like my idea works.



This is how this Azalea looked last year. My space is small with enough room to fill with garden delights*.

"Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity." ~Lindley Karstens, noproblemgarden.com

Cheers!

Last Bloom

A thorny rose plant grows below my bedroom window.

When I first moved in, the season was heading towards summer of 2007. Then by fall, this prickly plant suddenly came into
view among the bushes



and it bloomed. It was too late for me to realize that this plant existed right in my little garden patch. Rather than letting the
cold season ruined this flower, I cut it and put it in a flower vase to decorate my bedroom.



At that time, I was busy working and was almost away from home with little time to regularly attend to my own garden.
The reason I did not notice it was because this elusive plant lays hidden behind the bushy plants.



The blooming however was irregular. When the next summer came in 2008 this same beautiful rose plant bloomed again
and having been unattended, the flower wilted in the hot afternoon sun. My bedroom window faces west. Even the western
summer sun is too intensed for some plants.



I was still very lucky to be able to catch the last glimpse of this rose and managed to take a snapshot.

Cheers!