Garden Update 2013

[rafique]

Always good to see your garden, feel pleasure to read your words.

[Farhan Ahmed]

@Rafique Sb....pleasure is all mine for having a considerate audience.

[Farhan Ahmed]

Prelude to Spring


Barbatus & Dainthus next in line



This is Norvena crown, priced for varying colors of flower with age, Easily available locally





Progress of Lupins, Weather is supportive till now

[Farhan Ahmed]

The chronology of blooms( the order in which cool season annuals blooms) can be ascertained with the sequence of the blooms presented here.

I am not a rosarian for I am a Bedouin. This is the only rose that i have....a creeper. He was adapted from outside a nursery.This is his first bloom.


Sweet Sultan



Statice Rosemary


Nicotania at full bloom? Or will it get any better. I am not sure.......Nictonia flowers droop at noon/sunlight. This is a sign that plant is not liking it. My assessment is Nicotania is ought to be in partial sun(sun till noon). Then sometimes i wonder in our climate/scorching sun every full sun plant is ought to be in partial sun...


Phlox is priced for many things.....ease of growing. Long blooming season and best of all...........huge color variations




What is weed? something which is abundant ......lets not limit our ourselves to few plants for then it will become a weed, losing its glory.
Gardeners have not only been growing plants for their pleasure but for the survival of species.......

[Muhammad Arif Khan]

Gardeners have not only been growing plants for their pleasure but for the survival of species.......
farhan137

A symbiotic relationship

[UMARKHANMARDAN]

Farhan i have told you that you are new gardener thats why so curious.i am no more in favor of mix colors but like separate colors.Yes its true that it makes us limited to few annuals.Your Mimulus is great.you are a great gardener now.the mimulus is very healthy.i have grown it many times in the past.Mimulus grows where others fail but its a fact that every gardener can not grow it like this.Excellent job Farhan.

[aykhan]

I agree. For us Full Sun = Partial Sun.

[AhmadIrfan]

Good job farhan, finally someone growing statice rosemary do keep seeds for it and share I have been trying to find seeds for this for 2 years, try moving your plants tofull sun the colour will be brighter and the flowers on thestalks will be more dense, statice is one of my all time favourites.

[Farhan Ahmed]

@Ahmed Irfan.....Rosemary was in full shade(only available place).....but now sun angle is changed and is getting almost full sun so hopefully it will perform better as you said.

[Farhan Ahmed]

Delphiniums are shaping up real nice.....Way better than last year.


Next batch of sweetpeas coming up......Sweetpeas fragtassima from T & M. I thought that as these seeds are from abroad they would fail with rising mercury but to my astonishment all seeds from T & M have proven to be better heat resistant then local seeds.


Last year i was really disappointed by Aster Blooms. Therefore this spring i gave them only a feet space in my garden. This spring they have surpassed my expectations, they have changed my concepts. Lesson for me.....We can not blame the "Flower/Specie" for our failure to grow them well. Sincere apologies to Aster


@Syed Adnan The sweet peas in full bloom....@Tahir ...they did not die



Brachycome in white


For me .....Double Flowered pelargonium lacks character


Pelargonium Ivy....Great flower power. Flowering with same vigor since last two months. Recommended plant....No troubles


Dahlias droop at evening. Protecting themselves from dew......


Cannas corner coming up nicely. I relocated them in December and was not sure whether they would re-sprout. Hope to see them bloom, before i depart.


This seed mixture from Saeed seed store has lived upto expectation.