Daisies in glass jar

These daisies has two-tone effect, emerging white, then turning pink. It looks great with the trailing nepeta’s leaves.

The October

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.

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.

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.

Pea shoot 

Litchi

Gardenia: softwood cutting

After the first a few success, I will try more cuttings, and prepare for the next year...