Way Overdue

I have not been spending time with my garden. I've been lazy. Yes... I'm doing the minimal work now - watering.  And... I overdid with my hydrangrea. Yes, it died. 

What's remain of my poor hydrangea. I did quite well with it for the whole year. I over-watered and it rained too heavy when I was in Sydney. I stopped watering for a while but it never got better. So so sad. 

I finally can see some raab rapini florets growing. 

My slow-growing avocado.

Grew some pea sprouts from the seeds I got from Sydney. 

 The bigger branch of magnolia finally grew such a strong shoot. There are nodes all over too. Too bad the smaller branches (which I hope to be pink magnolia didn't root well).

The phantom seedlings looking a little dry.

Been harvesting a lot of my ginger for cooking.

Aussie succulents are growing pretty well. 

The seeding basil. I pruned the basil today and got myself a cup which I made into pesto.

Hydrangea was not the only one that died - my sole lavender went to heaven too. I found out I could buy lavender plants from the nursery (I have never seen though!).

Miniature bird nest that I got for free when I was buying a lot of plants for the vertical wall. It's also dying. I've lost my green thumb.

Cut flowers BF bought me. 

Overdue Update

 Basil has started to seed.

 Kaffir limes, onion, rosemary and mother of thousands.

The magnolia seeds I bought from Sydney turned out not to be magnolia. WTF

Aussie Succulents are growing super well! Yay~ 

Update on the Locals

A little more than a week away from home saw some plants flourished, some fell back.

Raab rapini flourished but not without a pesy infestation. 

Tomato still growing despite falling back. A new shoot grew rapidly I cut the main one off.

The hydrangea cutting with the strongest root system withered. Quickly stuck them into soil to see if it will help.

Couple of days before leaving, Nancy the hydrangea withered so much I believed it was water-clogged. 

I should harvest the ginger soon.

Adenium grew some blooms surprisingly.

Some baby mother of thousands that I gotten along the street. 

The cactus was probably water-clogged too. Lavender suffered a bit too.

I didn't get to see the gardenia bloom again. Sigh.

The avocado shot up.

The plumeria corner, forever infested with the white stuff.

Morning Update

 Ms Nancy the Hydrangea is flowering again!

 Gardenia flower buds all dried up after repot and they started to bloom again. I hope to see them this time.

Tomato.

Shifted my mint to the sunnier side of the balcony after not doing well. Started to thrive again. 

Solo survivor. Lavender 

Not just at the tip, the avocado starts to branch out at the mid section. Going to be branchy, this one.

 Basil doing alright.

Trimming made my rosemary very happy.

I lost the biggest raap rapini. Don't know what happened to it.

Sowed more sugar snap peas.

Up and Down

I snipped the shoot tip of the avocado plant to encourage branching last week and there seem to be 4 shoots growing.

It's been really dry lately I mulched raap rapini planter. The plants look good.

The starfish cactus suffered from the white stuff infested my plumerias. I've finally identified this variety. Some of them rotted and I managed to salvage a cutting and planted it in another pot.

Only 3 cuttings of hydrangea survived thus far. The shoot hasn't rooted yet. One roots the best.

My mini plum tomato still flowers but kept drying out.

It's been quite disappointing lately. None of the seeds I I lost another lavender seedling to dry weather.

I also lost another plumeria, this time Penang Peach. It black-rotted. Don't know what happened.