After featuring gardens from New Zealand for the past 5 posts, I soon realized that I had
confused some of my new blogging visitors who think I’m from New Zealand! Hence, it is
time to return to my own garden haven in the tropics. My garden is predominantly green at
the moment. I need to have more colour in it! I have had a wonderful time admiring the
colours of spring in a temperate climatic zone, and I ask myself, why can’t I have springtime
in my tropical garden all year round? Sounds like a riddle, eh, as it is actually summer all
year round here. Well I could plant beds of colourful annuals and tropical perenials which
have colourful flowers or foliage! Yes, they might resemble spring flowers… after all I can
grow certain bulbs like the amaryllis and I can have masses and masses of hydrangeas ….
and ….there I go again, already seeing these fabulously blooming flower beds in my mind’s
eye. I hope this new inspiration will not evaporate into thin air but become tangible reality in
a few months from now. I have already started on my gladioli patches! Right now though,
these are the only spots of colour in my green tropical garden:
The only accent here comes from the specks of red on the bushes. These are my ‘Shanghai Rose”
plants. The delicate blossoms, which do not at all resemble any rose I’ve ever seen, bloom all year round.
This path leads to another part of my garden.
Let’s see where this path leads us… in my next post!
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Thanks for reading my post. And thanks for picking my post. I am beginning to feel like a seasoned blotanist – the fruits of my labour ripe for the picking! My blog is under the blotanist list and not the blogger list in the sidebar on our plot page.
Happy blogging,
Rosie
Thanks, and wish me luck on my new flower beds project.
Cheers,
Rosie
I never thought of it that way, but you might have a point there. I always feel relaxed when I sit at my patio and look out into my green garden. When I plant my flower beds, they are going to be on the opposite side of my front garden- on one side, the brilliant and loud garden whilst on the other side the quiet and subdued … What do you think of my plan?
Rosie
I know what you mean, I am discovering new things daily on blotanical. I sometimes ask questions when the answer is right in front of my eyes! I’m gardening in Malaysia. Ever been here? I’ve not been to the Phillipines yet.
We can always visit each other;s blogs in the meantime,eh?
Rosie