Here We Go Round...

...the mulberry bush!

Two of my mulberry saplings are already bearing leaves and one of them has even started to fruit!

The other two are still not showing signs of life. I believe the fourth plant (poor thing!) may not survive the trauma of being replanted after being planted upside down.

Mulberry Plants

Received some mulberry saplings from Priscilla together with the pot to plant them in and the soil as well.

I'm going to have some mulberry bushes soon!

It also warms my heart to think that it's gonna be the real thing when I sing and play "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" with my Grandbeebee.

Lilies A-Bloom

My lilies, an Easter gift from Hubby, are blooming! And they are such beauties.

The picture on the left shows the first bloom with the rest behind. The picture on the right shows the second bloom that greeted us this morning.

What a wonderful way to start the day!

Puzzled

Are these bonsai plants that, left untended, have grown into trees or trees that have been bonsai-ed?

They Survived

A few weeks back I planted a plant.

A week later a strong wind came and blew the whole stem away. I was devastated because it meant that the plant had not taken root.

Nevertheless I replanted it, together with a few more stems of the plant that I still had around the house.

Every day I faithfully watered my plants and kept looking for new shoots. Today I am rewarded.

After 20 days of tender loving care I thought I saw new shoots!

There's nothing better than a photo proof to settle any ambiguity so I took a photo and compared it with the one I took about a week and a half ago.

Yes, my plants survived and they are doing well. Hallelujah!

10 days ago after replanting and today!

My First Plant

Today is a historic day. I planted my first plant.

This morning Bro. Fong gave me a few stalks of mint that are supposed to ward off lizards. He also told me that it is very easy to plant them from cuttings of the stem.

I decided to do so since I liked the smell of the plant and it is also supposed to be a good herbal cure for sore throat.

The plant is supposed to grow from all the nodes

By right, I should stick the stem into the soil but lying the stem down in this manner is a fail-safe way to avoid the danger of my planting the stem upside-down!

This way I also get more plants as each plant will grow from each node. I admit I am really kiasu but why end up with one plant when you can have more?

Let's see the progress of this plant 'cos I have a reputation of killing any plant that comes into my care. :-(

This is what my plant will look like when it grows up

It's Spring Time in Penang!

Don't believe me? Pictures speak a thousand words, so see and believe.

Trees in blossom along Persiaran Mahsuri

Such a lovely sight!

For once this tree has more flowers than foliage

Close up of the white blossoms

I've seen these trees in bloom but have not gotten around to taking pictures of them. I received these from a forwarded email so the credit belongs to someone who took the trouble to take the photos.

The trees would normally blossom during the hot season but this year they have put on a most spectacular display.

Hot Weather Blooms

It rained today!

After so many days of sweltering heat the drop in temperature was a relief. But there are some bonuses to hot, hot weather too. The plants all go into preservation-of-the-species mode and start to flower even as they drop their leaves. The results are trees all covered with flowers, something like the cherry blossom season of Japan.

There is one particularly beautiful tree that's all covered with purple flowers right at the corner of Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah near 32 The Mansion. I thought of taking a photo but did not get around to doing it. Now it's too late. I guess the tree would be botak after today's shower.

I was thinking of writing a post on trees in bloom so I did manage to take some photos of a few trees which were in bloom around the office. Unfortunately none was as spectacular as that Jacaranda (???) tree I mentioned.

This picture was taken after a shower
so the flowers are looking a little droopy

This is a poor representation of the splendour
of a whole bougainvillea plant covered with flowers

Almost in full bloom