Showing posts with label herbs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label herbs. Show all posts

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Garden Update


Here are some pictures I took earlier today, at two different times of the day, as you can tell by the different lighting in some images. My succulents and my cacti are thriving in this wild Miami heat, take a look...

See and read about the beginning of my plant and succulent obsession and how my garden has evolved and transformed in these, these and these posts..




These are some beautiful Purslanes (Portulaca oleracea - an annual succulent in the family of Portulacaceae) with pink flowers that I grouped together in this planter, I especially like how the flowers of the plant match the decorative flowers on the planter :)


More Purslanes with white and yellow flowers with a ground orchid on the far left...


purty yellow Purslane...


This here is what has become of the tiny basil plant that I planted in a strawberry pot: it got so huge that I had to transplant it into a larger stand alone planter! It has a funny lean because of how it grew out the side of the strawberry pot (seen in the background). I'm glad it seems to have survived the transplant! See and read about the transformation of my herb garden in these posts.


Some yet-to-be-potted cacti and succulents [and others], as you can see they're doing just fine though... still, I can't stand those black plastic pots so I'll be putting them in planters soon!



This is the succulent I found by the side of the road, it's a Kalanchoe, read about it in this post!


My Echeveria, I call it my bloomin' onion!! Read about its transformation in this post.










Pencil Cactus (Euphorbia tirucalli) has gotten enormous since I transferred it to a large aqua planter...



Last but not least, my indoor plants...






(All images in this post are my own personal photos)

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

My Strawberry Pot Herb Garden


Maybe you'll remember that in one of the posts I did on my plants a while back I showed my new Strawberry Pot Herb Garden that my mother gave me and that I had just planted with Spicy Basil, German Thyme and Italian Parsley... Well, as you can see it has been doing EXTREMELY well on my balcony, so I thought I'd share the before and after/now and then pictures with you! The basil is out of control, I had to trim it back the other day and give away two zip-lock bags full of it to my mom and grandmother! The herbs have grown so thick and lush that you can barely see the strawberry pot! yay!

I'm proud of myself, it feels good to cook with home grown herbs! I can't wait for the day that I have a home with a backyard, I want to grow lots more! :)