Okra, Freesia & Ranunculus sprouting like crazy

Here is an update about the Okra, freesia & Ranunculus. Spring onion is also coming.. still waiting for the Jalapanoes to come up.

Planting: Ranunculus, Lily of the valley, Freesia, Okra

I am back to planting and growing after a 6 months break. I had to travel and hence had cut down on my garden plants. I handed over the plants that wont survive without care to my sister. My begonias and aleo veras have survived my absence. And now that I am back, I have started working on my small patio garden again.

Though a little late for the season, I have decided to plant ranunculus this year. I have had my eyes on this amazing bulb for quite sometime and have finally decided to take the plunge. I am not expecting flowers but I am hoping that the plant will give out foliage so that I know, if i take care of it properly next year I should have lots of flowers. Well I got about 20 bulbs. I have followed all the proper procedures required for it:

• Soak overnight
• Plant with the bananas facing down
• Water everyday
• the soil/pot is very well drained

So I am hoping that my Ranunculus will show up.

As for Lily of the valley & Freesia, I am not that late. So hopefully I should see some blooms once they start sprouting.

Will Update once they have started sprouting with pictures.

Pink Pinwheel

I am kind of crazy when it comes to things like windchimes, pinwheels, suncatcher etc. I just love them. I cant have enough of them. Well we finally added a pinwheel to our balcony. A sweet cute little one..!! :D

Aleo care

I am starting a strange habit, well stranger than talking to my plants; I have started naming them. I blame the lack of any kind of exciting activity and therefore in hopes to help myself I restarted my Yoga and took up crocheting (which seems to be going on well), Still I find myself staring at the opposite wall of my hall for larger part of the day for this past week. I blame the cloudy-windy and raining weather (though it is more my laziness than anything.)

My one year old Aleo vera plant is showing signs that it needs more sunlight and windy spring is not helping me much. My poor plant is trying its best to send out new shoots. In hopes that it might help, I decided to re-pot it in a bigger and more sandy soil. I had bought it as very tiny droopy thing in deal from Walmart ($1 for Aleo plant in seed starter cup).It has grown greatly in last one year.  Here is a pic of my Aleo vera named Ariel.

Now to the story of the parsley that a friend of my husband's gave me: Well last year I decided to have herb corner in my balcony, I had basil, mint, cilantro  in my herb center. My Husband's friend gave me parsley to add to it  (he was given that plant as a return gift in some party he attended). Well I planted the parsley in spare pot  (a huge one, the only empty one i had then in hand)) and watered but mostly I forgot about it (I do not use parsley in my cooking). Well the dear plant grew quite huge, bloomed and managed to scatter its seeds around the post it was tied to... most of them ended up in the concrete floor below and some managed to land in the soil behind the walls of the balcony. Well the result is here. 

Baby1:

Baby2:

I have finally managed to groom my darling begonias. I have about 2 full pots of red and white begonias and all blooming throughout the year without care. I shall call my begonias: bee (red/pink ones) and belle (white ones)