Dombeya (Tropical Hydrangea), originally uploaded by malyousif. If you know me you probably know how much I love hydrangeas and my abject failure in trying to get them to grow in Bahrain. This, my friends, is the substitute and it’s growing well in my garden. This is in it’s second year now. Have a wonderful …
Happy Friday my friends. We came home from Rome early this morning to be greeted with this lovely thing by our front door: In a space of week, it woke up and produced all of these lovely flowers. It’s quite unfortunate that my gardener decided arbitrarily to chop the thing while we were away last …
Gladiolus, originally uploaded by malyousif. Have a wonderful weekend my friends
Rain of Gold (Galphimia gracillis), originally uploaded by malyousif. Have a wonderful weekend my friends.
Portulaca, originally uploaded by malyousif. Happy Friday! There isn’t much happening in the garden at the moment; end of summer, still hot and barely recovering from the onslaught on the house by the painters. Only the toughest plants are flowering at the moment: this portulaca in the Cauldron, some lantanas and of course the frangipanis. …