Garden Bloggers Bloom Day-Sept 2011 GBB

This is just my 2nd time to join GBBD. I've been thinking of joining but somehow, I always think that I must be putting in wide angle shots of the garden, which I should not do. Ours is what i call a biodiversity garden, because my mother just put a lot of bits and pieces anywhere, which after sometime looks like a shrubby forest of chaotic disorder! When she finds plants somewhere she just stick in a twig or two, which eventually grow. Talking of a green thumb, she has 2 green thumbs plus green fingers, which makes two hands of green fingers! Even her toe thumbs are green, I suspect. When i prune some unwieldy branches, she salvage much of them and stick to the ground, eventually taking roots and add more to the chaotic space. If i have to judge, it doesn't have a semblance of a garden at all. It is just like an experiment proving Charles Darwin's survival of the fittest theory!

Anyway, i will just put in some single plant shots. This way i might put some virtual order in your mind's eye, of how our garden looks like. There's a lot more kind I did not put here or else this post will also be a replica of our chaos! If i were to make a garden i would aspire to emulate Meem's Hoe and Shovel, Tootsie's Tootsie Time and Allistair's Aberdeen Gardening.


But if I have a wide area, i will have a biodiversity garden like Carol's Flower Hill Farm.

Firespike, Odontonema strictum 

 red salvia

red double Impatiens balsamina

This is just a single plant of pink double Impatiens balsamina plant, with many branches.

Ixora tree, Ixora javanica, the lower leaves are always eaten by our goat kids 

bushy Ixora coccinea

another bushy Ixora coccinea

 lilies: No ID yet

  Lantana camara which I got from the wild in Bohol province as ours are the wild pinkish-whitish variety. This is also a favorite of butterflies.

above: No ID yet

Impatiens walleriana

Turnera subulata

Above: No ID yet

Chrysanthemum, Orchid, Euphorbia

Caladium

Linked to Garden Bloggers Bloom Day