Rainy day

I enjoyed looking at the rain from my garden.....

Vegetable patch

I have been neglecting my garden for a while so the grass has grown a lots of weeds and it looks awful. I am going to try growing vegetables and so I cleared off all the grass with the help of a worker I hired and made myself a vegetable patch. But how it's going to turn out I will have to wait a few months to find out the answer. As for now I am happy with my new project...

Lotus in the pot

I love plants that grow in the water and I have a few pots of lotus in my garden.

I have seen some of my neighbours growing the lotus plant in their garden too but after a while I saw it was gone from their garden. Amazingly, mine has been growing really well until today.

I have neglected the plant for a while so my poor plant has not been flowering very well recently. But the plants are probably getting old already. I had them for about 8 years now.

Mini apple tree

I love to grow trees that bear fruits but I only have a small garden at home. I got the mini apple tree from the flower nursery that I frequent.

I am not sure if it is actually mini apples but the guy at the nursery told me that it is mini apple. I tried to eat it once, it's sour and tasted more like plum.

I have the tree for about 7 years now and it is still blooming.

I grow the tree in the flower pot. It is easy to care for. I put some fertilizer in the pot every 3 to 4 months once.

Rose garden

I was lucky to get the opportunity to stay at my Technical Manager house in Hamilton and then my MD's house in Auckland when I visited our NZ HQ in 1995.

Below is my Technical Manager's garden, it look awesome to me because I don't see flowers blooming this well in my neighbourhood. I like the roses the most.

He has a few plum trees too. Unfortunately I didn't get to eat any plum because they weren't ripe yet.

And, this is my MD's grapefruit tree. Too bad I didn't get to taste it.

Both my MD and Technical Manager has a great family and they are great host too. I had a great time staying with them and the memories will last forever.

Few years later I tried to grow some roses in my garden but it didn't turn out well. Guess the weather here is just not suitable for roses.

After a while the leaves became dry and full of holes, I guess there must be some bugs that is eating the leaves. I have got rid of all the rose plants.

Gardening

I love gardening when I am not baking. Lately I have been crazy over baking that I have neglected my garden for a while. I have a small garden and every now and then I like to move things around a bit so I don't get bored looking at the same things all the time.

I love plants that grows on the water. I had all the lotus plants for more than 6 years already and they are still growing very well and blooming every once in a while. I have both the yellow and pink flower lotus.

I love plant that bear fruits too. Since I have a small garden I grow most of the fruit plant in the pot except the grape plant. Those I have in the pot are longan, pomelo, mini apple, pomegranate and 2 different type of limes.

Guess, I have to spare some time tidying up the garden already.