HOW DOES OUR GARDEN GROW

I thought it might be interesting to show you how some of the plants in our garden were shaping up before some of the heavy storms hit us.








This plant is simply amazing. It one of the Datura family and sometimes has 3 trumpets, one inside each other as in the picture on the right and on other blooms I have seen the centre trumpet look like a corkscrew inside the flower. I think you'll agree with me its a fascinating plant and we are lucky enough to have 2 of them.






This Pointsetta is about 3 foot high and given time (like a few years) it should grow into small tree!


Of course it was important that I have a Papyrus plant too.


The tomato plant was grown accidentally, the pips from a tomato must have been in some waste water I put onto my plant container when I was watering one time and low and behold we have enjoyed a really good crop of tomatoes from it.

This was our first Mandarin orange - hope we get lots more as it was lovely.




There are some really unusual looking plants that I just wonder what they will turn out like!










We are now looking forward to the spring to see it all coming alive again. I have already noticed the fruit trees begining to bud and some of the neighbouring almond trees are already in blossom.