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Bloom Day + one: burgundy sunflowers
Click to view slideshow. Our garden, May 16, 2013. Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day is the 15th of every month. To see what’s blooming in other garden bloggers’ gardens today, check out May Dreams Gardens....
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My bargain dahlia
It’s amazing what you can get at Costco. I bought a fairly cheap bag of dahlia tubers in mixed varieties there last spring. Then I left it sitting next to my desk until September, when I finally...
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The better to fade away. . .
Our garden lights before: And after: The dark chocolate brown matches the ironwork on the house. Also, I had remembered reading long ago, advice by Ken Druse that dark brown was the best color for...
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Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day: June 2013
Here are some of the flowers that are blooming in my garden today. Click to view slideshow. GBBD — the 15th of every month — is hosted by Carol at May Dreams Gardens. Click here to see other garden...
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Foliage Follow Up: two sedums
[Ahem, make that two succulents.] I’d be grateful if anyone could identify these sedums succulents — both came with the garden. I’ve had the tall, bluish one in at least two other African gardens....
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Our garden: baskets in the trees
During the last several months, a colony of weaver birds has been living in a pair of tall trees at the end of the front terrace. Now I am not much of a birdwatcher, but I do love baskets. Attach some...
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Bloom Day in July: tropical hibiscus
About 8:30 this morning: Five hours later: Well. . . aloha. This is the second bloom I’ve seen on this particular tropical hibiscus. None of my others are this flashy dramatic. Surrounding it are...
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Foliage Follow Up for July
I thought I would give you a look at the plants surrounding the hibiscus and shrimp plants from yesterday’s Bloom Day. First, I would be grateful if anyone could identify the tropical plant with the...
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Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for August
Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer . . . by our water hoses. We are just below the equator here in Rwanda, so technically it is near the end of winter — and of the long dry...
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Tan is the color of the season
Not much is happening in our garden these days — except that the lawn becomes more and more tan-colored as the long dry season continues. This year, we stopped watering it about the end of June. It...
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After some rain
All night the sound had come back again, and again falls this quiet, persistent rain. . . . – Robert Creeley, from “The Rain“ Our garden on August 31, at the end of the dry season: And on September 11,...
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October Bloom Day: home again
Click to view slideshow. We returned from three weeks of travel on Saturday night. Not a minute too soon, as a steady trickle of water was flowing from below the master bathroom sink and probably had...
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Back here in Kigali. . .
We have orchids in the acacia tree. These two clumbs of orchids came out of the big old Norfolk pine that used to grow at the entrance to the terrace. (It was cut down a year and a half ago when it was...
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After the rain
. . . this morning. In my Autumn garden I was fain To mourn among my scattered roses; Alas for that last rosebud that uncloses To Autumn’s languid sun and rain When all the world is on the wane! –...
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Bloom Day in November: dill(flowers) and sunflowers
The quiet flowerworks in the mind of God In an age of reason — That’s in here. . . . – Howard Nemerov, from “A Sprig of Dill“ A dillburst in the flower borders. During the summer, I transplanted a lot...
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Our garden in November
It has rained almost every day this month, and everything in the garden has been growing accordingly. Here’s a little tour — from some photos I’ve taken in the last few days. Above: Looking across the...
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Wordless Wednesday: beach spiderlilies
Hymenocallis littoralis, last week in our garden.
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