Garden in Bloom

It has been a very busy last few weeks with visitors, seminars, business meetings and QC checks for compliance/certification of bakery diplomas courses. On top of that, our cat gave birth to three kittens, our serama hen just hatched five new chicks the sizes of small marbles and our dog got tick fever :-(

As for the five serama chicks, here they are when they are about 2 days old...

This is their lone two months old sibling from a previous batch.

This one is a beautiful pure creamy-white in colour but the new batch will certainly be coloured as can be seen from the dark markings on their feathers.

Meanwhile, the weather have been pretty kind - bright (albeit, hot) sunny days followed by downpours late afternoon or evening. The garden is doing well and looks and smells good. An evening  walk in the garden is a visual and aromatic delight and especially, due to the profusion of fragrant flowers, in particular, the "Queen of the Night" .....

The entire garden is strongly scented with a delightful fragrance. It is really fantastic!

Just look at some of the other beautiful flowers in bloom now ........

 

 

 

 

 

 

Great life in a beautiful garden :-)

Back Garden

It is good to wake up and look into the pleasant greenery of the back garden to the sounds of chirping birds and the crowing male serama (local breed of bantam chickens). Just in front of the back bedroom windows is a walkway and alongside the walkway a row of flower bed. Beyond that is our back garden.

After nearly two years, our back garden is coming along nicely ... still maturing but looking good. It should look even better in a couple of years' time! The photographs were taken by TK from the back bedrooms' windows.  

The left of the garden....

 

The centre....

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The right....

The back garden is split into two parts by a shallow open drain. The garden at the back beyond the drain have the trees while the section of the garden in front of the drain have  bushes with fragrant flowers. This stretch of the back garden forms the lower half of our L-shaped Fragrant Garden which continues on the the right hand side. A number of different species of birds are visitors to the garden and we also have a pair of serama there.

Just in case anyone think that we are in a very rural area; we are not. Our back bedrooms are pretty quiet as they are set some 60 m (200 feet) back from the front main gate which faces a reasonably busy (time-related) arterial road leading to a very busy main road - Green Road - with all the schools and shops.

It certainly feels very pleasant and relaxing there. 

The last two weeks...

We had a group of visitors, Mdm Harmit Kaur and family from Subang Jaya last week and we spend a lot of time catching as we have not seen each other for over two years. It also means lots of food :-)

The sky opened today after a week of sweltering heat that made it a chore rather than a joy to work in the garden and the plants and house animals suffered from the heat. On top of that,  I had a miserable week suffering from tonsilitis on one side of my throat :-(

Still, it was not a fruitless week as we finalise the plans for the rows of belian staking along the west wall of the house - the plan is for a wall of flowering creepers.

In addition to that, after searching for the last year, we finally found a supplier of garden sheds fabricated in Australia. The storage shed is of aluminum and 8' wide by 4' deep with two sliding doors and will be used to store garden tools and other paraphernalia.. There is a bigger one at the same price but we need to find one that can fit onto the concrete patch at the back of the garden!

To accommodate the shed, we have to move the dog kennel to the front and the cats and the serama chickens to the side of the garden. They will be installing the shed tomorrow.