Goodies From Dreamflower

My visit to Dreamflower made me richer by about a dozen varieties
and about sixty plants! Of course, some of them were only a little
bigger than sprouts!! Pictured above is a pink flowering shrub,mums
and an orchid. The most knowledgeable person wasn't around so I
don't know the exact names.

I fell for this bromeliad pictured next to rain lilies and Mexican Heather.
Although I already have M.H. the thought of all those butterflies made
me buy some more! Also in the picture is a shrub whose leaves are
supposed to be yellow and showy. Right now it's a very defiant green!!

Another Ixora--it's the dwarf variety and white. Couldn't resist the
fact that it's attractive to humming-birds, bees, butterflies and
other pollinators.

The bed I was working on...I'd bought gladioli bulbs last month and
had planted them in a wooden planter because this bed wasn't ready.
The marigolds and chrysanthemums are all here...looks pretty
crowded but there's no more space! I've also planted rain lilies
on the border.
The rocks do not look too good at the moment but I hope once the
plants grow, they'll blend into the 'bed-scape'. Yet to be planted
are a dozen hollyhocks and four 'hot' chilli plants.

Here's a sapling of a pepper vine. As for the orchid I've tied it to
a palm tree.

Around this rock, some colour...

This nasturtium with variegated leaves will have red blooms. I'm
hoping to let it trail on a rocky path!

I also got portulaca in two colours--peach and yellow. I'd already
prepared the soil in the hanging baskets earlier. It was lovely to
see them blooming the next morning. On a smaller bed I,ve planted
phlox,dianthus and petunia.

But nothing would thrive without our black gold! Although I use a
lot of leaves for the beds, the great nourisher looks like this...
dry,crumbly and dark! Cowdung manure works wonders! The day
after I'd bought the plants, the person who brings it in a cart
like this,turned up. In this picture, he's unloading the manure
in my frontyard. Garden telepathy, I must say!! I hope you enjoyed
going through the list of plants....