Seed pod

 

This year the raining season started in September and ends in early January.  Ninety percent of my seedling didn’t make it because of mildew and lack of sunlight.  But the heavy rain brings a blessing to my garden too.  My orchids bloom year round and Rangoon creeper blooms countless time already.  But this is the first time it forms seedpod. Because food shortage  pollinator thinks my garden is their food store hence the resultant seedpod.

dendrobium  seedpod

Rangoon creeper seedpod

                        

Petunia double cascade mix

Love at first sight. That was how to describe my feelings when i go through the catalogue for trailing petunia. I sow the seeds when the sky was overcast during the monsoon season. Usually it is like  late spring / early summer weather  but this time it rains for six weeks with few hours interval. The germination rate was 70%, however only 2 seedlings survive from damping off. Three days ago, it show off its first bloom, 2 flowers today. The flower is huge, 10cm and look like carnation.

this morning: it is not really blue but more like purple

  This is a double cascade blue petunia.

At 8 o’clock tonight i went out to admire the flower, couldn’t believe that it is full moon already. 

2 hours ago: full moon

 The progress of the other seedling will be updated. In the meantime, enjoy the photos

Special harvest: gladiolus corm and cormels

 I should write about the veggie that i harvest but i cannot resist writing about my special harvest. I plant this gladiolus successively since May 2012 and been harvesting the corm and cormels since Okt 2012. In the tropic, gladiolus does not go dormant.  Today i dig out all the corms. Next week I’ll plant more corms that i dug out earlier.

the last of gladiolus corms

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waiting for this cormels to get bigger

finally, larger cormels