Flower Power

I haven't given up hope on lavender but this time I won't plant them on the herb plot anymore.

Mexican Giant sunflowers. Ah... I still can't decide when to transplant them to the ground. I probably should do that after clearing those weeds!

I got myself my first love, the Malaysian Red plumeria and I got it pretty cheaply at RM25. Another nursery tried to sell me one at RM80.

Am still waiting bachelor's button to flower.

Recently bought more roses - Cecil Brunner on the left, white thornless in the middle and my first pink rose.

Recent seedling catastrophe (I left it under the sun and forgot about them during rain, the paper pots made out of Ikea magazine melted and the seedlings were floating! Affected seedlings were calendula, dahlia and sunflowers. So I transplanted the calendula and dahlia earlier than I planned. I just hope they don't die from Odyssey's trampling.

I gave Jasmine a hard trim and she bounced back with lovely leaves along with some blooms too.

Those poor American Giants.

My sole orchids doing pretty ok.

A Gung Ho Move

Seeing that trimming the roots of Magnolia did some wonder with some new shoots coming out from her, I did the same to Calla Lilies and Avocado. 

 Avocado has been suffering from dried leaves which I thought to be burned from sun but the thing is that only mature leaves are like that. New leaves aren't burned. It has to be something else making it this way, isn't it? I noticed some blackened roots after pulling her out from soil. I also moved her under the plumeria tree for shade to let her rehab.

After some rots, I pulled her out to clean the rot from the bulbs. Hope this will perk her up a bit seeing all the blooms are dried out. Having that said, I need to learn more about her.

The After Dark orchids after moving them indoor.

Ylang-ylang is showing off. I think she will love the new house. Also, I will be planting her into the ground and will be practising my grafting (morbid!) on her so I can leave her there and have my own Ylang-ylang when we move again.

My sole surviving lavender sharing house with an onion. I am considering to purchase more lavender as I need to combat mosquito issue. Other plants in the combat list will be basil 

My tomatoes bloom kept falling off due to lack of sun. Maybe I just move her to the new house already. 

Ms Ridleyi is growing pretty well except that I didn't realise I cracked her couple of fronds.

I also broke Ms Bifurcatum the younger's shield when I was transpotting her from the bathtub after shower.

 What a wall. I will replicate and improve this in the new house. Am also veery tempted to change Bifurcatum sisters' frame to a lighter and slimmer one like Ms Ridleyi's for a sleeker and graceful look.

Monotonous

The dwarf plumeria cutting didn't dry well so I re-cut again.

 Avocado got sunburned?

My magnolia Cocos. I probably should name the new one Olive Oyl since she's so leggy.

Heirloom tomato seedlings sharing planter with green onions. 

This highland hydrangea is still deciding if she's gonna stay or not.

What's left of the new hydrangea - sharing with basil. SIGH.

Only 1 lavender left so I made a few cuttings for rooting.

Thai basil cuttings sharing with the hydrangea that's dying.

Stopped at local florist to get some flowers on Monday and it was a bad time as most flowers were sold during Mother's Day so there wasn't much of a selection. I picked up these sweet-looking 'mums instead.

Few plants caught my attention. No I didn't buy them.

The plumeria inflo from the cutting.

One For The Road

Will be away for a few days with some girlfriends tomorrow so the plants will under the care of the BF. I hope he waters them.

 Recent heavy rain balded my Bali Hai Gold. Will pulling out my edamame when I get back next week, the pods are pathetically thin and sparse.

The new longan leaf gets bigger and bigger everyday. I wonder what's the actual size.

Magnolia Lily had a little setback after being attacked by spider mites. She lost some leaves.

Hydrangea is beginning to branch out. Yes.

Balsam and highland hydrangea.

Albeit slow, Magnolia Coco shows some growth.

3 cute bachelor's button seedlings accompanying the big one.

Tuberose sprouts more. I wonder how do you pronounce the word tuberose - tu-be-rose or tube-rose?

Sweet potato is beginning to root.

Nice growth - I trimmed off the older ones to make tzatziki for dinner just now.

The aerial roots of the basil are growing. I wonder what so I do with it? Should I sell them like the ones from the supermarket?

Thai basil I bought from supermarket. I'm attempting to root them again. This time I will leave them longer in the water. I was too impatient. Also, they begin to flower. Wonder if I would get some seeds?

One more lavender died. Sigh.

I bought a pack of heirloom tomatoes and I saved some seeds and sowed them. I thought it was a failure but the babies showed up today! One thing is that I don't know what I will get.

Heirloom tomatoes are these:

photo: loveandlemons.com