Beautiful Plants - Our Garden.

I enjoy to garden, and I was fortunate that I could set up a garden eleven years ago.  Now, it is a place for us where to relax,  working,  sharing our time with family and friends.  It is a lovely place.

The Garden.

Our Backyard Garden
Snapshots

We have been busy working in the backyard, the hedges look good, and the grass was nicely cut by Rayner.  Now the garden looks so Cool!

The Backyard in the Late Afternoon.

On a beautiful day spending outside is pleasant, and enjoying the garden, but to have plants inside the house is excellent, I love colours and green they make the home more homey and tranquil.

Some snapshots of my indoor plants.

Indoor Plants

Maiden Hair Fern, Fiddle Fig and Red Cymbidium Orchid

The maiden fern is back a life, it was just a pot of twigs, now it is looking very healthy with a lot of green leaves, so pretty.  Susan's fiddle fig which I have minded since last year, now it is good and well, new leaves are growing continually, I am happy about it.  As for the cymbidium, it is there because of the spikes.

More orchids will be inside the house soon.

Another indoor plant is the monstera deliciousa.

There are only a few indoor plants, no I would not add it; instead I love putting fresh cut flowers in large vases for inside the house.

Snapshots of plants in the backyard.

Potted Plants
There are a lot of potted plants in the garden, from potted cyclamen to orchids, and many more.

Potted Lettuces

Orchids

Citruses
Pomelo, lemon, Tahitian Lime which is doing very well this year, kaffir lime leaf, and Mandarin.  (The lime and lemon tree are not pictured here)

Topiary Plants

Most of the topiary balls,  the two-tier lily pily topiary plants, I set them up from small plants, the Giraffe and the Peacock was from the local nursery.

Fruit Trees and Vegetable Patch
A Pink Lady apple we grow in the backyard, and it has been excellent, we had a good harvest at least two basketfuls.  The nectarine did not do any good, but we enjoyed the blossom.  I am happy enough with the potted figs tree, which gave us fruits.

Apple Harvest,  2015

A small vegetable patch is enough for us two, but having a standard bay tree is quite a treat.

Other Trees.

 Magnolia Glandiflora, silver birch, smoke bush and kalamata olives which are ready to harvest.

Silver Birch  and Smoke Bush

The Front Garden

In the morning.

The garden's theme is white and green colour, there are a few foliage plants, that add exciting colour in Autumn, such as Japanese maple, succulents, and nana nandina

Beautiful scene of white flowering camellia sasanqua, the petal

dropped and dressed the ground beautifully.

Through and beyond the gate, you find the red roses growing against the white wall, and the opposite side, which is a calmer part, my mixed hydrangeas grow.

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They can be colourful when they are in bloom.

In the middle part of the front garden grows a cherry blossom -Winter Sun.

Potted Yucca and succulent grow a long side the fence

Beautiful succulent plants in the front garden.

Crucifix orchids (a special gift from friends) are later additions for the front garden, they grow against the entrance wall.

Roses

All roses are planted in the backyard, which makes the garden very colourful during the flowering season.

Iceberg standards, climbers roses and rose bushes and the small need pruning soon, they have been flowering beautifully this year.

My red roses grow around the house, they are under the eaves when they are in flower, the flowers adorn the white brick wall.  They do look beautiful.

Throughout the year I cut fresh flowers from the garden which are in season for inside the house.

Flowers and The Fresh Cut Flowers

Last season orchid, red roses and mixed colour roses.

Last but not least, I must include my white corner garden, it is the place where the only white and green colour is.  Evergreen shrubs I planted and a few snowballs bushes with serene white flower.  It is Autumn now, the leaves of the snowballs bush are bronze and beautiful.

This post is almost a summary of my garden-our garden.
People ask me: what type of garden do you have?  It is a common sense garden, it is not a formal or informal garden.


I love the garden, it is a peaceful place to be in.




Thanks For Visiting
Susy