These are a few snapshots of my garden as at 5 January 2012, when this Garden Diary started:
Rose
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| Rose bush: lost most leaves at the lower part; flowering quite happily at a few tips. |
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| A rose cutting taken about a week ago. |
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| A rose cutting taken 3 days ago. |
Frangipani
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| Frangipani: continues flowering since this spring. |
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| I am also growing some seedlings of frangipani. These are about one month old. |
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| A slow-growing frangipani seedling. It seems to have different shaped leaves, being more roundy rather than pointy. It will be interesting to see how/whether it will be different when they are all bigger. |
Geranium
There are quite a few of them around.
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| Dark-pink geranium given by a relative, flowering the first time in this bed. |
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| The one next to it is from some parent plant and seems to be growing new leaves. |
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| One grown from cutting is now producing its first set of flowers. |
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In the SW corner of the garden, there are three geraniums all looking slightly different. Apart from leaf shapes, their flowers are red, light-pink and orange. The orange one is an ivy type, and is flowering the first time since I got it two months ago. |
Bromeliad
Two types of bromeliad in my garden. One has had a few young plants and the other was here when I moved in last October. They are not looking especially nice at the moment. I am trying to give them water as required to polish their look.
I haven't managed to find their variety names, so if you know them I would appreciate some help.
Callistemon (Bottle Brush)
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| Two small bottle brush bushes in the front garden. One is flowering again after the early November pruning. |
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| Callistemon flower buds. Each of the round buds will flower like the previous photo in a couple of days. |
Turf
This garden has an okay lawn. There are a few bare patches. One is being re-generated at the moment.
Amaryllis (or Hippeastrum)
The flowering photos are actually from two months ago. The current status is 50+ seedlings and plants with no more flowers for the year.
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| Germinating in water. The first batch I've ever tried, just after the seeds were harvested. The germination rate was 100%! It takes one month to grow to this size (these are the slower ones). |
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| Other seedlings sowed at the same time, also germinated in water. They were moved into potting mix after the first leaf is big enough to handle. |
Nice garden! What do you use when watering the garden? Do you use water or fertilizer?
ReplyDeleteThanks Chris. I don't use much fertiliser at this stage as many plants are still too young.
ReplyDeleteDo you use normal water or paramagnetic water?
ReplyDeleteNever heard of paramagnetic water :p
ReplyDeleteI use rain water from our water tank mostly. :)
Do you think that the second Bromeliad photo is of Alcantarea imperialis?
ReplyDeleteHey Chris. I just looked up and it seems it could be what you suggested, but I have never grown any bromeliads before. All the images I found on the internet seem to have a wider shape, unlike mine more tube-like. Do you grow any of them?
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