The rose gallery in March

This month special: Exclusively presenting the white and orange rose blooms from our garden.Enjoy!

Runner beans - Season finale

The runner beans harvests are over and the plants were taken down a couple of weeks back. I should say we had good harvests from them, though not plenty in quantity but good in quality. We had not intended to save any seeds (unlike what most gardeners do)since we had good number of seeds still left from the seed packet we had bought initially. But a branch that went unnoticed had these pods - well matured and already dried,perfect for seed saving. What a bounty from not looking carefully! 

Of course home produced seeds will be given the priority over store bought ones. We are planning to put these pods out in the sun for some more days to get them completely dried and then store the seeds.These will become useful when we start sowing again for runner beans during August. 

And also this the first time, I am witnessing the complete life cycle of the bean plants. Well, someone put it right when they said "In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed fairy".  Amen to that.

Chrysanthemums: An update

I had earlier written about how we had bought three chrysanthemum plants from the nearby plant nursery and the Sunday market.We intentionally bought three different colored varieties, a white, yellow and purple, with the hope of adding some colors to the garden when their blooming season arrives. The yellow one died sometime back in December. We suspect December's harsh cold climate at nights were to blame, if that is even possible in our part of the country. But yeah, it was colder than usual this winter. 

The real twist in the tale is that the one we bought as white variety turned out to be actually yellow and the purple variety looks like pale white when it is fully bloomed. So the gist is, we haven't obtained the aimed result in adding different colors with our chrysanthemums, but boy we ended up with loads of beautiful flowers during their first season at home.

Well, as the saying goes, pictures speak better than words.