Growing Wonders

The week has been rather strange but a wonderful one. I did some reading and almost forgot to water my plants because I was so engrossed with what I was reading. But it turned out to be a blessing as just when I remembered to do so, the cloud came to indicate rain... and it really rained :-) 

My One-Day-Yellow Desert Rose (Adenium obesum) bloomed more flowers than usual. I was so pleased! With the many plants that I have in the garden, this shrub is often neglected. Firstly because the shrub is short, hence always covered by the Hibiscus at the front. And secondly, there are days that the plant was not watered well. 

Behind the One-Day-Yellow Desert Rose, I have another Desert Rose that is much bigger and older. The plant has produced a pair of seed pods for the very first time. Unfortunately, I didn't realize it till one of the pods fell onto the rosemary shrub that is situated in front. What a waste!

Anyway I was curious about how a fresh pod would be on the inside. So I split open the pod to see how the seeds look like when not ripened...

The other mishap was the spike of bloom of my Zebra Plant (Aphelandra squarrosa). As it grew taller, it probably gained some weight as well. Otherwise, I couldn't think of any other reason why it actually bowed to one side.

At one corner of my garden, my Hoya diversifolia has grown a little messy as I was not able to provide structure for the vines to climb neatly onto due to the limited space that I have. I am afraid I will have to prune the vines one of these days and hoping that it will still flower :-(

Spring Onions (Allium chinense) are one of my favorite herbs and I like to use it for garnishing dishes and soup. But the leaves can be spoilt (bent) easily by a heavy storm. Keeping my fingers crossed for these two ;-)

The only vegetable that is growing in my garden now is Amaranthus Perfect Red. The last yield was a little better as they were slightly more productive then. This time though, it's just a handful of them.

And finally, this is the greatest surprise... a Hibiscus 'Panama Red' (a Hibiscus acetosella variety) seed sprouted late (many months after I sowed the seed) and just blossomed. Now I have another H. acetosella in my garden besides Hibiscus 'Red Shield'.

TGIF :-D Have a great weekend and happy gardening wonderful flowers and greens ;-)