Wow i have just been going back over the latest pos in this section, beautiful plants, so many doing so well and bringing pretty life to the dullness of winter, spring is on its way. We had an old apple tree blow over after Doris blew through our garden, a smashed pot of cordeline on the patio, but we got away lightly, shame about the old apple tree.....i will look for a new specimen.
Hi aym, you have been busy as always, love your pics, i've been so busy i haven't been on for a while, it is how it goes sometimes, but if i miss a few days, i miss lots of interesting things! Lots of gardening to make a start on, but so cold here today ? Think i will light the fire and spend some time catching up on here, hope you are keeping warm with your porridge.
Aym, yes mango trees are big. They can grow up to 40 meters in height. What is a kidney mango? Never heard of them. A quick Google search yielded nothing.
Your Cistus looks lovely. Hope we can grow them here!! Am gonna Google their requirements right now.
What lovely pictures folks I've got a few oddities flowering but nothing has really got into its stride yet.
Love Vishu's pot
Joyce, what is the name of your second hellebore, the pink/yellow one? I'm in the market for a new hellebore or two but everytime I look at Ashwoods, they're out of stock... Got a seedling off one of my older hellebores flowering for the first time - it's exactly the same as its parent and I'm a bit disappointed! I already have one of those
Aym, I couldn't find cistus here? Nobody knows of it. Seeds aren't available either. I was really into it.
Mangoes already? Must be from someplace in southern hemisphere. Still a month before the arrival of first mangoes. 2 until we get the good quality ones. 5 or 6 mangoes?? They don't last a day in any Indian household. We are mangophiles and lactophiles. Mangoes are bought in crates, not my number.
On average, we eat 1 mango as a snack, another after dinner as dessert and a glass of mango shake either before going to sleep or just after getting up in morning. Chopped mangoes in custard is just divine!!
That is not counting raw mango pickel and raw mango drinks(we really need it to tollerated the heat). Chopped and pealed Mangoes and mango based beverages are also always served in summers, to guests
Victoria sponge, Thanks, it's my favorite as well.
Sorry to hog this page with all our flower photos taken today, but I love them all, couldn't decide which to leave off, so here they all are. 1.A dainty crocus before the wind and rain batters it down. 2,The first almond blossom, 3.some of the 100 + snowdrops, my mother vandalized a hedge in Yorkshire bringing me a dozen of these dainty flowers about 15 years ago and now we have more than 100 as they have spread so well. 4 &5. Our old cats grave - the girls named her MOG
Thanks aym. I had decided not to plant any more crocus, because they usually get flattened by the wind or rain before they are able to open up fully, however we captured that one at just the right time. However, having seen how my mum's snowdrops have spread in the round flower bed, and also along the driveway I much prefer them. I bought a "special offer" from GW last year of 25 snowdrops in the green, and only two have flowered this year.
The primulas and primroses have randomly seeded all over the lawn, along with wild violets, they do look lovely.
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I forgot to share this yest.
this one is our's
this one is of our neighbor.
Aym, care to guess what tree these are?
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Wow i have just been going back over the latest pos in this section, beautiful plants, so many doing so well and bringing pretty life to the dullness of winter, spring is on its way. We had an old apple tree blow over after Doris blew through our garden, a smashed pot of cordeline on the patio, but we got away lightly, shame about the old apple tree.....i will look for a new specimen.
Hi aym, you have been busy as always, love your pics, i've been so busy i haven't been on for a while, it is how it goes sometimes, but if i miss a few days, i miss lots of interesting things! Lots of gardening to make a start on, but so cold here today ? Think i will light the fire and spend some time catching up on here, hope you are keeping warm with your porridge.
I am sure the summer heat will fix em up.
Not eucalyptus. We hate that tree. It's a bane to ground water. We are water starved, can't afford to have them.
These are mango trees in full bloom.
Thank you aym, you are always here to cheer me up ?
Aym, yes mango trees are big. They can grow up to 40 meters in height. What is a kidney mango? Never heard of them. A quick Google search yielded nothing.
Your Cistus looks lovely. Hope we can grow them here!! Am gonna Google their requirements right now.
What lovely pictures folks
I've got a few oddities flowering but nothing has really got into its stride yet.
Love Vishu's pot
Joyce, what is the name of your second hellebore, the pink/yellow one? I'm in the market for a new hellebore or two but everytime I look at Ashwoods, they're out of stock...
Got a seedling off one of my older hellebores flowering for the first time - it's exactly the same as its parent and I'm a bit disappointed! I already have one of those
Aym, I couldn't find cistus here? Nobody knows of it. Seeds aren't available either. I was really into it.
Mangoes already? Must be from someplace in southern hemisphere. Still a month before the arrival of first mangoes. 2 until we get the good quality ones. 5 or 6 mangoes?? They don't last a day in any Indian household. We are mangophiles and lactophiles. Mangoes are bought in crates, not my number.
On average, we eat 1 mango as a snack, another after dinner as dessert and a glass of mango shake either before going to sleep or just after getting up in morning. Chopped mangoes in custard is just divine!!
That is not counting raw mango pickel and raw mango drinks(we really need it to tollerated the heat). Chopped and pealed Mangoes and mango based beverages are also always served in summers, to guests
Victoria sponge, Thanks, it's my favorite as well.
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Victoria, the second pic is Helleborus (Rodney Davey marbled Group) 'Penny's Pink '
I ordered it on 16th Feb.
Thanks aym. I had decided not to plant any more crocus, because they usually get flattened by the wind or rain before they are able to open up fully, however we captured that one at just the right time. However, having seen how my mum's snowdrops have spread in the round flower bed, and also along the driveway I much prefer them. I bought a "special offer" from GW last year of 25 snowdrops in the green, and only two have flowered this year.
The primulas and primroses have randomly seeded all over the lawn, along with wild violets, they do look lovely.