While i was away...

my garden angel has been taking care of my precioussssss...

Not only the plants did not turn brown and wilt, they are thriving!

LOOK!


Remember my poor tarragon which died on me few weeks back?

The last stalk standing is now flowering!

Yellow flowers...

Ahhhhh... :D

And then, i have other surprises too!

To my delight of course... Yes yes, i cannot stop gushing and smiling! :P



The died-ed tarragon is re-growing again.

See the baby tarragon?? ^.^

However.

Unfortunately.

Although all other plants are doing very very well, in fact.. the husband has harvested more than 10 bright red and very spicy chili padi when i was away, there is this one plant that isn't doing so well afterall... :(

My poor poor mint.


Hopefully now that i am back, i can nurse it to its healthy self once more [and not the reverse i hope!]

*definitely keeping my fingers cross*

Anyway... thanks heapsssss, garden angel *muaks* for your time and effort spent although you came home at 9pm daily but still took time to sayang my plants as instructed *ahem* :P

More friends...

Added more plants to what i had initially.

This is how my corridor looks like now.. still waiting for the husband to weld a few of the hanging racks for me.



However, after a couple of days.. most of the plants got moved to the balcony where the morning sun shines.

The corridor gets no direct sunlight at all :(

Some of the new plants i got :



My prized possession : rosemary

I never get bored from smelling it. In fact, i do that almost every morning! :P



Then, my not so stable tarragon.

I can't a bigger, stronger pot apart from this pot.

Other plants that i got are mint and spearmint[for the boys' cough].

Then, i planted some of my own. Those are roselle [from seeds where the fruit was given by the guy who attended to me] and spring onion [from shallots -my own].

Check this out!!


One of my chili padi turning red!

A few days later, which was yesterday...



I harvested 4 of them from the plant.

Super duper red! *yay*

But i haven't eaten them yet though.. so not sure how they taste like. Heh.



Then... *sniffs* i found out that my tarragon is dying on me :(

Not all though, 3 stalks died and one still thriving. Hopefully the thriving one will survive.

Gardening

I finally did it!

After months of talking about planting my own herbs, flowers and other edible plants, i finally bought 2 pots 1+ week ago when i was at the wet market with the husband on the morning i was gonna do my lasik.

It wasn't planned.

We were walking around after our breakfast when we came across a small section where potted plants are sold. Perhaps because they just sprinkled some water or perhaps it was the morning dew, the plants looked too good to resist, as though they were screaming 'bring me home, bring me home' to me.

After looking through at some 30+ pots of different plants, i picked only 2.



Thai basil and chili padi plant.

I almost couldn't make up my mind. Initially, i wanted 4-5 pots but the husband was like.. wah, how to carry ah?

Fineeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...~~~~

Furthermore, i know nuts about growing plants, so it's wise to buy only 2 and see if they'll die on me. 2 pots will be my first baby step :)

Up close with my new friends.. :P



My chili padi plant.

Currently, they are flowering and all the chilis are still green in colour.

I read through some gardening forum and it seems that i'll need to pinch the flowers away to make way a better looking bushy plant.

But, er.. how to pinch??

Additionally, it's like so sayang to pinch the pretty flowers away.. Hee.



Then, my thai basil.

Hmm.. no flowers yet. Actually, i didn't know that thai basil will flower until i saw some at a farm/nursery last Saturday. The flowers are purple in colour.

Hou leng ah!

I can't wait till my basil flowers but for the time being, let's hope the plants won't die on me first! *fingers cross* :D