the garden at the main gate

i worked very hard this spring and wherever I could, I sowed flowers. Finally after all that effort, patient hardwork and innumerable times of getting the saplings I have brachichoma growing profusely outside the house in white and purple colours. In addition there is California poppies, the yellow flowers in the pictures here. The other alternative is the hardy calendula- also yellow, orange in colour, as well as the ever green marigold. In one of the pictures a bud of marigold is standing out in front of the camera lens.

the grass goes in a second -2nd March 2009

this is a picture of the back-lawn. Dash watches over as the gardener Sushil puts the grass in, my second attempt at the same. Earlier in the day i had gone all the way nehar-paar to get the grass- about 100 feet of it. 

ice-plant

i need to record this here as a separate entry just because i put this plant three times in for this season- not one plant but three times i had to get new saplings just to ensure one round of flowering. it nearly was a test of my tenacity or love for this plant-which i had discovered only last winter. but now seeing these flowers i just know that it was worth it.

two new varieties this year

these are two new varieties growing this year...cannot recall either name. just entry just to chronicle them here. some major changes in the garden in the offing...

chrysanthemums

i had quite a few varieties of chrysanthemums this year. but come spring and these flower is no more...anyhow here are a few pictures. these are naturally the fading blooms. though the earlier flowers were mostly maroon in colour or purple the last ones to come, these ones are white ones. took this picture just this morning.