Thursday, September 15, 2011

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



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33 comments:

  1. It is all so lush and green with such exotic colours so different from my garden in Italy where it hasn't rained for a month now with temperatures in the high 30's °C for most of the time. Christina

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  2. That's a lot of varieties. The collages are the prettiest. I'm a little like your Mom in the sense that I keep on propagating. Then I ask around for adopters of those new plants. Sometimes, I kill the plants to reduce disorder if they are not adopted. Now I refrain from propagating. It's not necessarily a good thing to do after all.

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  3. Wow!!! Quite a few of these plants grow here in Tucson. Nice list of plants. The Salvia is one of my favorites along with the Firestick.

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  4. Lovely flowers and shots. Lots of color going on.
    Cher Sunray Gardens

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  5. Great post. I love it.
    BTW, I don't think that is a carnation. I think it belongs to the chrysanthemum group.

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  6. Wow! your Caladiums are very nice Mam, and this is also the first time I learned about a Santan Tree. I used to be like your mother who doesn't care about organizing the garden, I like the shrubby forest concept too! But I had to move my plants in another place, so there was a chance to make the garden a little bit more organized than before. hehe. If ever I'll search for the Santan Tree in a local nursery...is there a way that I'd be able to distinguish it from the bushy types? Thanks! :)

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  7. dr magsasaka - thank you so much for that correction, actually it really is chrysanthemum, I put carnation because it was the last post i read. I've already checked it. BTW this is your first time here, but i always see your comments in Rey Siason's. I was wondering why you don't post often, as we will learn a lot from you.

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  8. Such a diverse collection! Beautiful blooms and fun to see plants that we can only dream about here! L

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  9. You have the most saturated colors of blooms just about anywhere, no comparison. A real garden of Eden. Pretty garden images too, Andrea.

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  10. I'm GREEN with envy over your mother's green thumbs, fingers and toes! And your blossoms... lovely!

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  11. So many lovely blooms and so much color! it is truly inspiring! Happy GBBD!

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  12. wonderful bursts of colours and lovely textures. they brighten up my day.

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  13. I love all the Caladiums, the Impatiens are gorgeous and I'm eyeing your Ixora coccinea!
    Happy GBBD :)

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  14. aloha andrea

    great collection-everything looks beautiful

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  15. All of your blooms are lovely! Your caladiums are beautiful...you have so many different varieties. I tried them the first time this year, and I am very pleased with how they have accented my garden. Happy GBBD!

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  16. I love you NoID lilies. I like their leaf structures and your Caladiums too. I think I am more into foliage than into blooms.

    I also like the jungle look, I call it "organized chaos", just like my outlook in life...LOL

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  17. So nice to see a garden that is lush and green and oh so full of color.

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  18. Love all the reds! So pretty. I bet the hummingbirds love your garden, especially since it's a "biodiversity garden" - love that term!

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  19. I love your natural garden. I have not been successful with chrysanthemums yet. I like propagating plants too, so now my garden inhabitants would include leftovers, spillovers, infants, toddlers, youths, oldies and great granchildren :>)

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  20. Solitude Rising - When they grow taller they don't look nice where they are now. I can give you plenty here if you want. It's not a joke because you're in the US. If you come over you can get what you want from our garden.

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  21. Autumn Belle - we also have the spray-type yellow chrysanthemums, which turn viny if neglected. Chrysanthemums are photo periodic plants, they are i think short day plants, so they need long nights to induce them to flower.

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  22. Like you Andrea, I only join GBBD with posts full of single bloom or plant photos. There are no great vista shots in my garden! You've shown some lovely flowers, but I was drawn to your fabulous Caladiums. I just wish we could get such gorgeous varieties here in my corner of Oz.

    Thanks for dropping by my blog. You asked about the flowers in the first photo ... they are Bumble Bee Petunias. Quite stunning in real life. As for the birds, we've had loads of Rainbow Lorikeets around as well as the Scaly Breasted Lorikeet I showed in my post.

    How funny that you miss the word 'lollies'. I suppose it is something rather Aussie! I had never thought about it though.

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  23. Hi Bernie - if only Australia is not the most prohibitive country for plants and animals, i will send you Caladium bulbs. But i know how your laws are, so sorry about that.

    You can say i really miss Australia, because i miss your terms: lollies, biro, circulator, billabong, Waltzing Matilda, scones, conveniences, Wollies, etc, etc, hahaha!

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  24. Wow!...so lovely...especially the orchid!

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  25. Gosh - the Philipines are far from California in so many ways! I enjoyed your colorful blooms and laughed at your description of your mother!

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  26. Don't know half of those. Charming in a certain kind of way. Must keep you moving. lol.

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  27. goodness!!! I am so flattered!!! I am sure that your garden is lovely friend...you can't have all these beautiful flowers and blooms in a garden that is not beautiful!!!!
    I am so lucky to have such a great group of gardeners to share with...thank you so much for linking into my little party today...I look forward to many more posts from you!!!
    I hope your week/weekend is just what you hoped it would be!!!
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  28. Wow intense colors and variety-- it must all be wonderful chaos or not. And I'd love to see the goats in the garden...

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  29. linniew - i forgot if you are the one with bantams, or is it kininvie, always interchange your names. If you have goat kids roaming around sometimes, those plants they want will eventually die because they cut the tops. They are the curse in the garden. Next time i will link your post here when i post goats. Thanks for visiting.

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  30. Excellent showing for September, Andrea! Your post was perfect. No need for wide angle shots if you don't feel like it. I can't either. Hehehe. My wife says I am turning our home into something akin to Vallone dei Mulini in Sorrento. LOL! Your chrysanthemum, orchid and euphorbia look good together.

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  31. The caladiums are beautiful. I can't grow them in New Mexico but my Mom grows them in New Orleans and they remind me of home.

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  32. I forgot to tell you I enjoyed the photos of the critters.

    I love all the colors and shapes of the blooms you have! I think my favorites are the euphorbia and the other 2 shown with it.

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