With our best wishes to Eyad Ebrahim and his fiancée on their nuptials and new life together. May you both bring much joy and security to each other and be blessed with however many children you wish for. Congratulations my friend and may Allah bless this union.
Month: November 2007
Bleeding Heart Vine, originally uploaded by malyousif. I had three of these rather unassuming looking (without their flowers that is) climbers which I planted on a trellis on my Northern Border. One died and the other two didn’t seem to be doing anything. But a few weeks ago they “woke up” and this week I …
Japanese variegated hibiscus, originally uploaded by malyousif. I wasn’t very sure that this hibiscus would survive in my garden as it was looking rather poorly for quite a while, but am I really happy that it has filled out all of a sudden and today I see it has this glorious flower on it. Very …
Frances got me this Passiflora from her last trip to the UK which is labelled “Caerulea Constance Eliott” which is a completely white cultivar … one that I was so looking forward to – but after months of it being in the ground, I am surprised today to see that a “regular” Passiflora had bloomed! …
I couldn’t believe the stuff carried in the papers this morning about the palava in parliament yesterday. MPs are “absolutely” incensed that our foreign minister shook hands with the Israeli foreign minister on the sidelines of a meeting at the UN. That minister being female and and Israeli is a double whamy for them. I …