Gardening

My Garden

My Garden, originally uploaded by malyousif. A stitched vertical panorama of my garden. This is one of my favourite views of the garden, at the back "alley" looking into the front garden. It’s Winter now, so there is barely any colour, but come Spring that story will change and I hope that I will post …

Lonely spot of colour

Lonely spot of colour, originally uploaded by malyousif. My lawn is looking like the Serengeti in winter, burnt. That makes the garden a bit dull, especially that most plants didn’t start flowering again. Like me, they’re desperately waiting for the Spring again. Yet, the birds we feed (parakeets, mynahs, sparrows, bulbuls, pigeons, doves, etc.) spread …

Name this plant!

unidentified internal plant, originally uploaded by malyousif. I bought this lovely plant from the Sultan Garden Centre in Khobar a couple of days ago. The very helpful employee there unfortunately mislabeled it and I am at a loss as to what it actually is called. If you do know what it is do be a …

Baskets, baskets

I am not very happy with the baskets I’ve put up so far, probably because I am impatient and couldn’t wait for the plants to actually develop from seed; which some of them admittedly are doing pretty well so far, and as I was on a quick business trip this morning to Saudi, I thought …