Honey bees, originally uploaded by malyousif. These critters built their hive in one of the trees outside of our house. The gardener found them (and was terrified of disturbing them) while he was trimming the trees… I couldn’t blame the guy!
Desert Rose (Adenium Obesum), originally uploaded by malyousif. I got these cuttings as a gift this morning, I’ve gone to 4 garden centres in Bahrain before receiving them and they didn’t have any Adeniums in stock, and they didn’t know when they would be getting any in… These are going to be my pride and …
Cactus Yellow Flower, originally uploaded by malyousif. These are going on high-growth-mode at the moment, we have two of them astride our gate, in the street planters. They’ve just started to open yesterday and this is what greeted me as I came home from Dubai last night… This image also is especially presented to the …
Burj Al-Arab – Dubai, originally uploaded by malyousif. Everything done, the bag is packed, finished breakfast and now just chillin’ in the room till check-out time in a couple of hours and then onwards this evening back home… It’s been fun!
My orange tree was glorious before these pests arrived a few days ago. It even had fantastic fragrant flowers and the start of actual fruit. Alas due to these caterpillars it is now almost a skeleton without a healthy leaf and all flowers and fruit buds dropped off. Other than picking each of these insects …