This October is a cold one, and most of the summer flowers
on the balcony has stopped flowering.
The apple tree performances well this year. After plenty of
beautiful flowers, finally I harvested two red apples. I could have a few more
if I am not too greedy at the beginning, but two apples are still good for me.
To prevent the apples drop down and break, I used some fruits nest in supermarket
to hold each of them. In a chill morning, both of them safely dropped into the
nest.
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| Red apples |
I bought 6 trailing roses this spring, and only 2 of them
survived because of the powdery mildew problems. It seems their tender leave are vulnerable to it
unless you kept removing the affected leave and flowers all the time. It is
getting better once growing bigger. In the survived two roses, I quite like
this pink one below, especially its non-perfect petals. Bees seems to agree
with me as well.
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| Pink trailing
roses |
Since it is cold outside, I spent more time indoor. Pea shoot seems to
be easiest growing leaves for dummies, and the more you cut, the more you
get. Litchi is a surprise, we buries a
few litchi stones, and forgot it completely. This morning, I am trying to clean
up some pots, and found two of the young plants are actually litchi. Hope they
can survive the winter. I also tries
some softwood cuttings for gardenia, now there are about eight young gardenia
plants. They all rooted well, so I separated them into different pots.
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| Pea
shoot |
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| Litchi |
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| Gardenia: softwood cutting |
After the first a few success, I will try more cuttings, and prepare for the next year...
