Darling Just Dive Right in and Follow My Lead

I have finally secured myself a red magnolia. I hope to have a better luck this time. It did seem to have a good start as after I stripped all the leaves, the bud began leafing again after a day.

Honey Dijon is very quickly becoming my favourite rose. She also has a faint pleasing scent.

Ad for my platyceriums... 

The maidenhair fern that I almost lost flourished again.

Cotton bud. How cute is that?! I have not repotted them so the cotton plants are very leggy but they are forming buds.

My sunflower patch that never materialise. Will be clearing the area soon. 

The Kauka Wilder tree has been pretty happy I suppose as she is flowering massively.

The phantom bougainvillea near the veg patch finally bloomed. It's a pretty orange-hued one.

Now let's talk about the Plot to Happiness. I've totally neglected it as I was very occupied with my wedding preparation and then at the same time, there's a bun in the oven. I'm in my 15th week this week and finally started to feel like a human again. So I cleared the forsaken patch, and covered with the weed-blocker. I think I will take a break for now.

I harvested the white radish a couple of weeks ago but they are still in the fridge.

Yesterday I harvested the carrots. Many of fellow gardeners in my FB group were impressed by the size of them as it is known that carrots grown in (lowland) Malaysia are tiny and thin. I believed that they could have been bigger as I stopped caring for them since November.

They are our dinner tonight. Not only they smelled so good when I pulled them out, they tasted amazing raw.

 As I was clearing the patch, I pulled out many tiny sweet potato tubers. What the heck, I really thought it was a failure as I pulled most of them out in December and all I got was 2 alright-sized tubers.

Quite motivated by how well my carrots did, I sowed some again in the same pots and moved them to the front instead. At the same time when I was rummaging through my seeds that I kept in the fridge. I felt a surge to plant things again but I do doubt that I won't have the time to care for it so maybe I will just use the planters I have to plant some greens.

Look at this cute pineapple!

Seedless guava sapling from my sister's boyfriend's family tree has grown a flower bud. Truth be told, I've been eating a lot of guava lately.

The Woody and Thorny Perennial Blooms

Proud moments.

Dijon Honey

 All American Magic

Cécil Brünner 

Memphis Music

New Year, New Me, Maybe

So I definitely haven't spending a lot of time outdoor due to mosquitoes and a recent huge event that happened. But some of the plants are doing pretty good on their own. The huge kauka wilder now blooms a lot more which is great although she's still having rust.

Purple balsam! 

Zinnia. 

Pink rose.

I think this is dahlia.

Freesias.

The Prince bloomed.

Memphis Magic rose are not showing its stripes somehow.

One of the Autumn Beauty sunflower.

 The bigger broccoli is infested by something.

Cabbage!

Broken

Mosquitoes broke me. I no longer could enjoy gardening. I had to keep my action haste and it's giving me grievance.

Other than that, I purchased more annuals yesterday: zinnia, cosmos and marigolds. I also bought a pot of bird eye chilli.

Odyssey dug out the cosmos and peach zinnia 5 minutes after I planted them into the ground. God damn it.

As you can see, the dual-colored balsams are reaching their end. Hydrangeas are growing pretty slow.

I'm quite disappointed to see this rose variety has such a small bloom.

The Prince (David Austin variety) has arrived. It's quite different from what I have expected.

 I very quickly transplanted tomato and white radish seedlings to this plot. I got dizzy few times from getting up quickly to get the mosquitoes off me. ARGH!

Jee Petch looking extra pretty today!

Bloomer and Foliage

My marigold patch isn't doing ok since odyssey loves to walk on that patch.

Odyssey broke this one on the base so it's dying. I wonder if I managed to root the broken cutting the last time?

Ms Ridleyi has 2 fronds now.  

I should cut those dried stems. It's so nice to see that it survived.

Baby bifurcatum is growing bigger pretty quickly.

For the love of God, the flower bud of Egg Magnolia dropped?

A succulent that I took from the Airbnb in Los Angeles.

More blooms!

That 2 dual-colored roses. I've decided to hold of my rose haul. I should not be so greedy.

What's left of my dahlia.

I have 3 pots of freesias. Only 2 pots have sprouted but not all of the bulbs did. There's at least 10 bulbs per pot.

A couple of my autumn beauty sunflowers are going to bloom.

The Mexican Giants decided to grow more blooms and they look mutant.