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. 

Could This Be???

One of my magnolia cuttings I bought from Sydney seems to be starting to form nodes??? Oh my god!

There's another cutting seems to just started to split and form those nodes. Some of the cuttings were rotting so I cut them and moved them to a shorter vase.

I will be giving one of my mother of thousands seedlings away to my colleague. She has tried keeping a succulent but it died within months. Sad.

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~ 

of Portulaca, Succulents and Others

A colleague at work ordered a bunch of portulaca cuttings but they were left in the parcel over the weekend, when she got back to work on Monday, the cuttings were affected. She split the cuttings with me to salvage the cuttings seeing that I'm developing a greener thumb.

Another colleague has a pot at work so we planted some and left the pot at the windowsill.

The ones I brought home, I stuck them into various pots.

Back to my own balcony garden:

The magnolia cuttings are growing and coming out from dormancy.

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 All 3 of the magnolia seeds I sowed germinated. I transplanted the biggest to the pot.

Nancy the hydrangea survived after a scare.

The adenium is flowering again.

Baby mother of thousands growing their own babies already.

Mexican Stonecrop.

The most common succulent: Echeveria.

Bluebean.

The vertical garden at the apartment didn't look good at all, spent an hour fixing it. Will need to buy more plants soon. Many died.

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.