Here and There, A Little Bit More

With new development in our lives and heavy travelling, the yard was quite forsaken. The Plot to Happiness is being put on hold on as mentioned in previous post and one of the fence post gone kaputt so Odyssey had access to it although she's just walking around, no harm done.

Here's a little update to what's going on. 

 The egg magnolia has been flowering a few times, I think this is the third one. It looked so cute.

My poor maidenhair fern almost died twice but it bounced back. 

 The red magnolia sprouted new branch and the leaves are so much bigger! I'm very happy that's she's happy.

One of the plants I acquired from Austria in April was Korean mint. It's not doing as well as I thought it'd be. Also, the two mints that I had kinda died too.

Got bay leaf plant from Austria too. Doing better than I've expected in humid climate.

 Lastly, I attempted to grow Alpine strawberries again and this time worked. I could see new runners growing and it is growing a fruit too.

My hydrangeas are doing alright except for the gardener kept trimming when he cut my grass. So annoying!

A Little Scare and A Little Surprise

I was away for almost a week so when I came back, the wild strawberry and highland hydrangea died. Magnolia Coco lost a few leaves whilst Lemon lost kinda a lot of leaves and some were burnt. We are having some major heatwave here.

The heatwave isn't really a bad thing, some plants benefitted from it. Plumeria over at another apartment is flowering albeit some of her leaves were burnt.

When Opportunity Strikes

We had our air-cons serviced so it was a great opportunity to clean up the balcony as we had to move the pots for the service guy to get to the air-con unit. Cleared the leaves off and washed the floor as the service guy had a hose. 

Cleaned the wild strawberry plant (it was treated with neem oil solution for whiteflies so it trapped a lot of dust and doghair).

Moved the avocado seedlings to where my adenium was. Adenium is in the house now.

Transplanted the longan into a pot.

Procrastinating .

Here's how the Ylang Ylang looks like right now in comparison to when I first got her.

Lastly, a throwback. I missed having hydrangea blooms!

Pictures of the Day

Super leggy Edamame seedlings.

 I almost killed my lavendar with fish emulsion!

French beans

Bachelor's Buttons

Longan seedling

Ylang ylang blooms. I wonder those are seeds!

Magnolia Coco actually came with an Anthurium-look-alike plant. Could be weed

Strawberry survived. This plant has been pretty much abused by my dogs. Odyssey uprooted it whilst Coco eats the leaves

Hydrangea

Bali Hai Gold Plumeria grows 2 inflos.

Saving okra seeds

Updates and New Additions

Over the past weekends, I've bought few new plants.

New lavender! Yay! Been searching for this quite some time.

Medinilla myriantha, also known as Malaysian Grape. 

I also got myself an Ylang Ylang plant. 

The scent of the flowers filled the balcony, no joke. 

2 new ground covers that I pinched from my dad's bonsai pots.

 A variety of Japanese roses, from my dad's garden. It's fuchsia, white and orange.

An Indian curry plant seedling. 

Red okra seedlings! Now occupying the pot that used (actually somewhat) mint from Austria. The mint died and only one tiny plant survived which is the one at 2 o'clock in the picture right now.

Nai pak seedlings on the right, Japanese kale seedlings on the left.

Local mints that I grew from seeds which I got as a gift. 

My basil seedlings revived after suffering from lack of water. Next to it was the Ylang Ylang bloom that fell off when I was transporting it to the balcony.

Supermarket lemon seedling.

2 rogue basil seedlings in my empty pot. 

Wild strawberry and a random seedling - I'm keeping it for now to see what it is.

Clemson okra pod that I'm planning to let it to seed. Seems like it's reaching its end soon.

Avocado seed from my colleague's lunch that I'm germinating now.

Hit & Miss

I have been pretty diligent lately, spending more time at the balcony taking care of the plants and watering a lot more since it has been really hot. 

Monkey pitcher is now sharing the pot with a rogue fern.

Alor Vera from Spain, succulent from Santorini are doing pretty well after much care and fertilizing. 

Bentong ginger isn't doing well - it doesn't need as much water that I thought it'd be. 

My pot of random succulents are looking better. A lot had died as you can see and I've started to fertilize them. See those fertilizers? They stink like chicken poo. 

More basil seedlings popped out on the mint pot. 

Transplanted the hydrangea to a bigger pot with Miracle-Gro soil that used to house the miniature gardenia. Oh the gardenia died after almost week of transplant. 

Desert rose flowering again!

Okra plants are still producing - this time shooting out from the leaves too. 

Okra container is sharing with a single shallot that grew shoot. Those seedlings in the egg box are basil seedlings for my colleague.

Sowed some Japanese kale seeds and they have sprouted the next day. It's sharing container with white turnip (free seeds from the usual site I bought my seeds).

Wild strawberries are growing pretty slow. I have made a mistake by planting them too deep covering the crown. 

The rest of baby Chinese kales that I grew the last time. 

Those aren't evening primrose, they are mints actually. 

My chives are so small! 

Supermarket lemon seedling!