Magnolia Sweetbay

At out backyard we hv a Magnolia Sweet Bay tree, a nice mature tree but have alot sucker who grew up very fast! Here's the pic while we don't cut them just for a week...

Since April the flowers start blooming, they all look so beautiful and smelt so damn good :) mixed between lemon and jasmine, maybe. The blooming still countinue until now.

Last Sunday finnaly we decided do something to get off those sucker. We cut all them and used Landscape Fabrics on it and on top we put mulch. it look much better now, even not finish yet, we need more stone for border ! Landscape fabrics

For extra, here's a tiny dragonfly and butterfly from my front yard, enjoy......

Bumpy Gardener

Since last week, temperature in here was soooo HOT, 90 - 99 F.... felt like mid of summer. And I don't know what's happen, my allergic skin rush ( Urticaria or Nettle Rush or Hives) starting bothered me again, get bump, sometimes very bad almost all my body, itching badly :( sometime will gone less than an hour, sometimes view hours, aaaaarrrrrrrggg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, bumpy will not make me stop do what I wanna do, still busy with my garden and take care all my plants :-)

Last Saturday I bough 2 more flower plants from Ace HW, they're look very pretty, also my DH bough 2 banana pepper plants. Here's my new 'baby' pics

Bouganville

New Guinea Impatiens

After I bough this plants, I keep impatiens in front my sun room, a shady area, but last Monday, 2 days later, it look so horrible, dry out and almost die. After I gave it a lot water and move it in to my 'cool' living room, less than an hour it look back normal as before, fiuhhh... better I keep it as a indoor plant.

Also my Daylily still blooming everyday, and I found another daylily clump at my front yard, it look pity, today I moved it to flowerbed, make it easy for me to take care and watching them. I should buy more daylily, they all very beautiful ...

Stella D'Oro

Bitsy

Also here's my Celebrity Tomatos,

Please raining.... raining... we desperately need heavy rain !

Roses & Moss Roses; Spring Bloom

Miss All American Beauty Roses blooming very pretty this morning, also my Moss Roses, they have 4 different color, really breathtaking...

Thornless Blackberry

Yesterday, finnaly I got my thornless Blackberry plant, after waiting more than 2 monts. arrived with a very good condition, Doyle's packed it secure and nicely.
Came with a long thin pot, with a tiny plant... too small than I expected.
We will planting this plant at our side yard by tommorow, full sun area and have enough room for growing, get big and bigger...

As per their brosure, this plant totally thornless, yields up to 10 to 20 gallons of fruit per plant. Bears large sweet and juicy berries.

Soon... (wish less than 3 years from now), I'll need a lot good recipes for blackberry... fresh blackberry pie.... cobler...smoothy... ice cream... coulis... eemmm..... yum...yum........

Also about 1o days ago I'm seedling 2 pumpkin seeds , they germination very fast, 2 day ago I moved them to the ground, they look great and growing more...

A Month later...

Last beginning April, I took some pictures of my plants; chili, sweet bell pepper, sweet basil, shallot, red onion, water melon and cherry tomato, they all look so tiny... and a month later, they look much bigger and starting flowering and fruiting ( water melon not yet, ofcourse) !
Amazing how they grow very fast... this is my first experience planting all those plants and all seeds I'm collected from fresh vegetables and fruits who I bought from Grocery Store, some from last summer (2007). Be sure, this summer, I'll keep more seeds and more varieties for next year season.

Summer come too early ?

Has been 3 days temperature in here hotter than normal, today at 2pm reached 99'F !
Hey.... spring season has gone...?

This week also a busy week, we bough more plants from Lowe's; southern tomato, Areca Palm, Stella D'Oro & Bitsy Daylily, Petra Croton, Anita & Umbrella aka Arboricola Trinette (tropical indoor plant), also some roses : N-Joy , Don Juan and Miss All American Beauty.

They all look awesome! Still dont know yet where the best to place all of them, hope this week end they all already have the best spot in my yard and insde my house ^_^

The others news, my tomatos plants has have a few baby tomatos, all my vegetable plants grow up very fast this warm week!

Finnaly, I have Banana Trees in my Yard

Yesterday after family reunion, me n DH dig up 3 banana trees from my sister IL yard, she have a lot banana trees and wanna get rid of them, and I'm very pleased to have them in my yard !
My DH help me for dig up and I'm picking up 3 trees with different size, with hope all of them will survive and love their new 'home'

Also today I moved the cherry 3 in 1 tree from pot to the ground, so far 2 budding look grow up well. Can't wait until their blooming and harvest them...

I got this from Gardener's Choice, I'm not really happy with them, only 2 budding sprouting, so Ill only have 2 variety not 3 as they promised. Also I'm order Salad Tree and Strawberry tree from them, I received 3 of them as dormant trees and only cherry 3 in 1 who's survive. Send complaint by email and call their customer service almost everyday, but never get answer both email and my call !!!