Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Here comes the first flower!

Shida from p3chandan gave me two types of Plumeria early this year. One of it has started flowering. There are few buds and a single bloom! The white flower is just so pretty and resemble purity!



Friday, October 21, 2011

Reaching The height!

One of the plant in my garden that i realize grows slowly and steadily is Curry leaf. I pluck some of the leaves for my curries. Once in a while my neighbours will asked some. Strange looking caterpillars eat some...... But the plant continue to grow regardless of all the plucking and eating section!





The ground is covered with Mint. Both are living harmoniously!

It's time of the year that i become busy again for Deepavali. It's raining heavily too here everyday. I let my plants to survive on their own. I don't water them too since it's raining! hahhahaha....Hope not much damage done.

To all Hindu bloggers who are celebrating Deepavali, I wish you all HAPPY DEEPAVALI and to the rest HAPPY HOLIDAY! Hope everyone have wonderful moment with your beloved family!


Thursday, October 20, 2011

Now you see....now you don't....caterpillars!


It was a big surprise for me to see all my caterpillars missing in action!

On Friday there was many of them! may be 20 of them on my plant. By Saturday morning, left only about 10 and by Sunday early morning all gone!!



I wanted to remove all the caterpillars but my husband told it's already big and soon will change to become butterflies so don't harm them. With half heart i agree with him.....

Unfortunately all gone...... May be bird or bat ate them because they went missing so early in the morning!


This was how small the plant was before caterpillars invade!

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Cabbage on plate!

Last weekend I harvested one of the cabbage head. It's only about 12cm in diameter. You can imagine the small cabbage head right!

I saute it with garlic and chilli. It tasted so crunchy and tasty! This photo was taken after we took our lunch. So only little left!.





I'm linking this to Wendy's GTTC

Friday, October 14, 2011

The true survivor!

I have blogged so many times about my chilli plant which have survived for 2 years and give me a lot of chillies! I have stop buying chillies after having this plant. Powdery mildew/ mealy bug constantly attack it and i always think it won't survive another month but surprisingly it have survived almost 12 months!

My other batch of Chillies have all died back and i have to grow a new batch but this plant is the true survivor!

Thursday, October 13, 2011

GBBD - October

I have mainly 3 plants flowering profusely now. My Zinnia, Euphorbia Milii and Pentas!

Zinnia at not so good soil!






wild Zinnia! a true survivor!


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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Euphorbia - propagation

I propagated 2 Euphorbia cuttings 2 weeks back. It was overgrown and bending down due to heavy rain. I never done any before so i started with 2 cuttings.


It's very easy procedure :

1) Cut the tips from mother plant .Be careful about the milky sap.
2) Let it stay on a paper or empty pot for 3-4 hours or 1 day until the milky sap dry out.
3) The cutting is ready to be planted


Few days after planting, it look so unhappy but bounce back after about a week.  I'm planning to propagate few more of the overgrown branches and plant it at a place where my Heliconia was last time. I don't think snake will like this pricky spot anymore !