Summer Blooming 2012, Karachi

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Re: Summer Blooming 2012, Karachi

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Just beautiful!
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Re: Summer Blooming 2012, Karachi

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Has anyone ever bean able to get it to seed?
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Re: Summer Blooming 2012, Karachi

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Izhar wrote:I can give you a plant... :) please prepare a large pot for it... :mrgreen:
I am waitingggg.... :D :D :D....
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Re: Summer Blooming 2012, Karachi

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I have been very busy at home lately.. will try to pack it on this weekend..
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Re: Summer Blooming 2012, Karachi

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A beautiful surprise, the bulb was gifted by a nurseryman 2-3 years back:
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Wild Solanum elaeagnifolium, the blue blooms are looking beautiful with silver foliage:
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Hibiscus Disco belle:
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Banana, dont know the variety but it remains green on ripening and ripe on the plant, very sweet tasting:
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Lobia, Black-eyed bean, weekly harvesting and taking the boiled beans in breakfast daily, the green pods are cooked with minced meat:
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Re: Summer Blooming 2012, Karachi

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The hibiscus is extremely beautiful. How many inches is the flower?
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Re: Summer Blooming 2012, Karachi

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On an average 8" diameter...
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Re: Summer Blooming 2012, Karachi

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Wow! Everything looks so healthy. These days in Lahore everything is scorched. It's near complete devastation aside from blooming bouganvilleas.
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Re: Summer Blooming 2012, Karachi

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Indeed healhty and lush i would second aykhan......heat is killing these days and i wish i was in my hometown karachi .....But good weather is round the corner sir aykhan..Moonsoon starting in couple of days
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Re: Summer Blooming 2012, Karachi

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The beautiful surprise (1st picture).
You had me tricked until I realise it was a union of two rain lily flowers.
8 inch flower on 12 inch plant a sight to see, lovely Hibiscus.
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