Saturday 22 July 2017

My yarrow/Achillea millefolium 'Summer Berries'


I love Acillea millefolium... i love the aromatic finely divided feathery-looking leaves... and i sooo love the simple tiny flowers.... though tiny they are abundant and tightly-packed into a showy flower head.

My Achillea millefolium 'Summer Berries' has bloomed... although the inflorescense is not as abundant as shown by google ... it is still as pretty..... i have tried growing Achillea several times.... have failed in the past... there are about 2 or 3 occasions when my Achillea did bloom before dying out on me....






.... but i m now very worried that this Achillea millefollium of mine may also be leaving me.... for some leaves are browning away... the leaves at the base..... they do not look fine.... could it because i have been over-watering her.... i know that Achillea does not like 'wet feet' and prefers to be on the dry side.... but during very hot days she wilts.... so i water.... though the soil was still rather damp.... now it does not look healthy and robust.... and i am sooo worried.... i will stop watering for a few days and see how it goes....



in memoriam - Yellow Raspberry 'Fall Gold'

...another 'obituary' i sadly need to write...err type that is... is for my Rubus idaeus 'Fall Gold'....  unfortunately my Fall Gold died before i could share an air-layered cutting with my fellow gardening friend Mohd Nor Azalli... had started the air-layering but it died before the air-layering done managed to root.... sad...sad...sad... :(






in memoriam..... Citrus sinensis

nope no one passed away recently... just my Citrus sinensis.... i thought the yellowing was due to chlorosis/iron deficiency... when it was simply a case of an over-zealous-over-excited-gardener-over-fertilising-her-plant...or rather her Citrus sinensis..... well regrets i have such a lot... but non of any use... what is gone...IS GONE... no use crying over spilt milk...or rather over a dead Citrus sinensis.....








Death of a beloved... somewhere in May 2017.... :(

However there is at least great hope for replacement ... alhamdullillah some time last year did give away some cuttings to a fellow gardening enthusiast Mohd Nor Azalli.... in exchange for a Nashi Pear plant which he had successfully air-layered some time before.... who grafted them onto his own Citrus.... well can't remember what Citrus it was... so my Citrus sinensis replacement is already underway.... hopefully in a few week's time i will get my Citrus sinensisz replacement... in shaa allah... thanks zillions to Mohd Nor Azalli....  BTW the Nashi Pear seems to be doing fine.... has yet to flower as it is still a rather young plant..... will surely post an update on the Nashi Pear when it flowers..... hopefully not too far away in the future... in shaa allah


My Citrus sinensis/Navel orange's replacement underway.... praying it will be successful... and i will get a new Navel orange plant soon.... am impatiently looking forward and counting the days.... :))