my garden

[Riz]

salaam.

some pics of my garden.. in early march and all the way through till september....

All the flowers you see, were grown by me most from seed and some "plug ins" i bought

[Riz]

early march.

the soil was clumpy eh..

[Riz]

i love sunflowers.. i grow them every year and i keep some of the seeds and leave the rest for the birds........

some cut flowers from the garden.. :)

[Riz]

busy little bee

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC05155.jpg


apple tree, small but juicy

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC05190.jpg

[Riz]

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC05189.jpg

[Sakeena]

wow, marshallah beautiful pictures!!

that one healthy apple tree :)

[Riz]

^ thanks sakeena,

all the apples go to waste though, ( there is only so much apple crumble a brother can eat in one season) :)

[Riz]

here is pear tree, sweet and delicious every year unfortunately no partridge this time ;)

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/peartree.jpg

[Riz]

i grow opium poppies every season, they are not fragrant and the petals fall away 2 days later after they have bloomed, but for them 2 days it is beautiful elegant plant.. i have collected the seeds and have a jar full....


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/poppylovers.jpg



http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/poppylovers2.jpg

nearly ready to open its petals

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/poppyhead.jpg

[Riz]

a dried up bulb with hundreds of seeds inside it

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/driedpod.jpg



hundreds of seeds


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/poppyseeds.jpg




lupins..


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/lupin.jpg






http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/smalllupin.jpg

[Sakeena]

all the apples go to waste though, ( there is only so much apple crumble a brother can eat in one season) :)

the apple and pear tree look quite mature were they already there when you bought your house?

what do you do with the surplus of fruits? i would donate them to the local school after i've given bucket fulls to family, friends, neighbours.

you know, you could even set up a stall and sell them ;)

[Riz]

yes. must be at least 20 years old, i had a great plum tree as well, its branches used to snap off because of the weight of the fruit, but one season it got a disease and within a couple of months it completely died.

everyone in my area have a plum apple or pear tree in their gardens so nobody wants them, so they just fall of the tree and i pick them up when i can but the majority of them just lay on the ground and eventually start fermentation and the whole area smells like apple cider

but i do give some to friends or relatives when they come and visit from out of town,, big shame really seeing them just going to waste all over the area..

[Riz]

butterfly on a opium poppy pod

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC05303.jpg

[Riz]

i love sunflowers, i grow them every season regardless....

( if its taking too long for the pic to show, i can resize it)


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/largehead.jpg

[Riz]

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC05302.jpg

[Mareyah]

gowjus pictures mA :)

that pear tree look ever so inviting!

must be a very hard and busy work a garden...

[globalart4u]

apple chutney is good - and you can always sell it for charity :)

our apples this year did not do well and the plum tree is full of black stuff so will see if it survives next year

mashallah a lovely garden - what type of pears? ours stopped growing or doing anything three years ago cos aunty decided three years ago that she wanted to move it to the middle of the garden and this year is the first time it gave lots of lovely pears

[Riz]

gowjus pictures mA :)

must be a very hard and busy work a garden...

love the avatar..

if you plan everything earlier and do a little bit every other day in the garden, then you can actually enjoy your garden... to grow something from seed and keep it alive and then enjoy the bloom or the fruit is so rewarding at least that's how it makes me feel.

[Mareyah]

love the avatar..

if you plan everything earlier and do a little bit every other day in the garden, then you can actually enjoy your garden... to grow something from seed and keep it alive and then enjoy the bloom or the fruit is so rewarding at least that's how it makes me feel.

thank you :)

is Riz your umm name?

maybe during the spring...but iA am hoping to get a house with a massive garden next year...your tips wil be handy! :)

[Riz]

^ check P.M

well look out for my "tulip" grow inshallah you might be pleased with the results......

[Riz]

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC04979.jpg

[Riz]

Rose bush

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC04550.jpg

Allium ( ornamental onion)
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC05059.jpg

[Riz]

A view from my garden



http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC03982-1.jpg




Beautiful sunflower


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/lightsun.jpg

[Riz]

garden peas


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/gardenpeas.jpg

[Riz]

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/flowergarden.jpg

[Sakeena]

i'm luvin the pictures, especially the close up ones :)

[Riz]

summer 2008

My next door neighbour is talented she has cut all the long grass with a sickle/scythe because she does not own a lawn mower or a strimmer.. looks cool, i asked her if i could take a pic and she said of course.. She tied them up with grass in neat bundles..

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC09722-1-1.jpg

[Riz]

My apple tree..

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC00293.jpg

[Riz]

here is my pear tree

very small fruit at the moment, but they are very juicy and tasty when they mature fully. Well its not really "my" pear tree, its my next door neighbours but a nice big healthy branch always dangles in my garden and i am allowed to take all the fruit of it.. lucky me !!

[Kirsten]

You're so lucky to have such nice neighbors :)

I thought your allium was a big fat pufferfish at first!

[Riz]

You're so lucky to have such nice neighbors :)

I thought your allium was a big fat pufferfish at first!

yeah its true i have nice neighbours, on the left i have polish neighbours and on the left some asians, so its like the united nations meeting on my street everyday :)


the alium when i first saw it on a gardening programme i was well impressed about it, the shape the structure so i simply had to buy the bulbs :0

[Riz]

a patch of poppies i have been growing these for 3 seasons i love the look of them tall and slender, the petals fall of after 24 hours but they look stunning espically when a gust of wind hits them..




http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC00437.jpg

[Riz]

there is only so much apple crumble i can eat in on season :)

the rest go in the bin

[Riz]

I was walking a couple of weeks ago with a friend and 2 streets from me i saw this pretty little garden so i took a sly picture, lot of dedication and patience has gone into this small front garden, dont you think !! i love all the flowers and the little vase near the tree, not forgetting the palm in the pot in the background.



http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/garden.jpg

[Riz]

a few pics of my apple tree.. all the bins in the garden are full to the brim with apples... i gave a huge bag full to one of my friends who came back the next day with some sweet/sour apple pickle for me.. it was so tasty :)

[Riz]

home made apple sauce/pickle..

yummy yummy !!!

[~Obsidian~]

Beautiful and abundant :)

I say this everywhere but might as well say it one more time:

You could put them in a basket at the front of your house for passers-by to take, it's a simple charity and theres less waste:)

[Riz]

Beautiful and abundant :)

I say this everywhere but might as well say it one more time:

You could put them in a basket at the front of your house for passers-by to take, it's a simple charity and theres less waste:)

yes..

everyone on the street does that... the area were i live has apple/plum/peach/pear tree in almost every garden in every house, some gardens have 5 to 6 huge "crab apple" trees. so no one wants any apples, they cant get rid of there own... :)

[Dunemist]

Gosh - wish I lived near you then! Mind you, I can't cope with the fruit at the moment, as we only have two rings to cook on (no proper cooker yet) so have not been able to make any chutney or jam this year. Took a bag of crab apples into work at the end of last week for a colleague to make some jelly. Hope she has managed to get something from them, as she said that she'll give me a jar in thanks.

Plaited up my onions at the weekend and am really pleased with them. Wanted to post a picture but am having heaps of trouble trying to upload. Don't know why. Will have to investigate.


Have found out why my pictures would not upload - when I rotate them, they change format. However, the programme won't let me change the format back to JPEG. So, here we have my lovely onion plait, the wrong way around because I don't know how to rate it and keep it as a JPEG!!! A work in progress.:confused:

Admin : edit:-...i managed to rotate it for you dune..

[Riz]

they look great..

when did you plant them ? when did you harvest and what variety, I have never grown onions before, i plan to next season though, any helpful tips and tricks would be appreciated...

[Mareyah]

i want to see tulips gosh i love tulips i want a massive garden soon and i will adorn it with beautiful flowers....iA :tree-huggin:

[Foz]

MashAllah bro Riz...loving the pics of your garden!

[Riz]

thanks fozia..

i have some great plans for next season for my garden.. going to plant some more alliums in the flower bed as well some other things i have bought. let you all know in good time....

[Tania]

Your garden was pretty and i liked how healthy were the plants. Even the trees. :)

[Riz]

thanks tania..

cant wait for the coming season.. the winter gives me the blues... :)

[farah]

theres just something about the picture in post 25 its been my wallpaper for weeks and never gotten bored of it & no ones dared change it - theres so many colours mash'Allah it looks serene, healthy and summery subhan'Allah a stunner

[Riz]

:butterfly3:

thanks farah.

[Riz]

multi headed sunflower in mid summer, 2008

the birds love the seeds




http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/multi.jpg

[~Obsidian~]

:tree-huggin:

What kind of birds do they attract?

[Riz]

:tree-huggin:

What kind of birds do they attract?


sparrows and house martins, some gold finches and yellow hammers, with sunflower seeds you attract lots of different species of them, two seasons ago i had a screen of 10 to 13 feet sunflowers ( single and multi headed) right opposite my kitchen window and in early September to mid October i would get a flock of different types of birds eating away, suspended in mid air with the beak inside the big sunflower head, you can hear them tweeting away from around 6.AM . its an awesome sight i have never managed to take a pic of them doing that though..
this year the seeds of the sunflower moulded away because of bad weather.

[Riz]

alium


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/alimbulb.jpg


ixia

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/ixia.jpg

[Riz]

i love dandelions

we used to call them "parachutes" when i was a kid....

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/dandelions.jpg

[Kirsten]

Your sunflower picture is going to be my new desktop background!!

[~Obsidian~]

sparrows and house martins, some gold finches and yellow hammers, with sunflower seeds you attract lots of different species of them, two seasons ago i had a screen of 10 to 13 feet sunflowers ( single and multi headed) right opposite my kitchen window and in early September to mid October i would get a flock of different types of birds eating away, suspended in mid air with the beak inside the big sunflower head, you can hear them tweeting away from around 6.AM . its an awesome sight i have never managed to take a pic of them doing that though..
this year the seeds of the sunflower moulded away because of bad weather.

:D

[Riz]

Honeysuckle A.K.A woodbine

Best smelling climber ever in the garden... Its right at the back of the garden next to the climber rose.. sometimes a warm breeze brings the fragrance in the kitchen and the living room.. ive had this for 3 seasons, the first 2 seasons it wasn't growing that well just over 6 feet, then i dug it out and relocated at the sunniest part of the garden which is the back and it has really taken off, its growing through a trellis... it well spread right across the back wooden panels if i let it... might take some cuttings of it....

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/honeysuckle.jpg

[Riz]

Tiger butterfly..

I was following it around for 10 minutes in the garden waiting for it to land. it was teasing me for ages. finally i managed to zone in on it.. i could have taken a better pic if all things were equal :)





http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/butterfly.jpg

[Riz]

yellow rose


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/yellorose.jpg

[~Obsidian~]

OMG Riz that is an AWESOME shot of the butterfly!! :eek:

[Riz]

OMG Riz that is an AWESOME shot of the butterfly!! :eek:

aww thanks :)

taking pics of ones plants and seedlings and nature around you is really fun.. everyone should do it...

[~Obsidian~]

You've seen what happens when I do that :p (blurrrrrrrr :D)

Seriously though look at how hairy the little critter is!! SubhanAllah....how big was it? Looks hayoooj in that pic

[Riz]

You've seen what happens when I do that :p (blurrrrrrrr :D)
Seriously though look at how hairy the little critter is!! SubhanAllah....how big was it? Looks hayoooj in that pic

It was a sunny day and the butterfly was around 2 inches wide.. everyone should get a digital camera they are relativity cheap i have just a standard entry level one..

[Riz]

i take a few shots and some are blurry, so i only put up the respectable ones...

Aster Michaelmas Daisy

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/astor.jpg

[~Obsidian~]

Pretty...where are you getting this sunshine from! I haven't seen any in aaages

Edit: ah righty

[Riz]

these are the pics i taken during the summer at different intervals, i saved them so i could show them through the winter months....

[Riz]

this is what it looks like at the moment

[Foz]

great pics riz..love the one of the butterfly

[Riz]

thanks..

i have a few blurry ones as well, i was lucky with it

[Riz]

hey..

it snowed last night and this morning.. :)

http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb26/muslimgrower/DSC02173.jpg

[edibles]

whoa thats alot more than what we got in central london

[Foz]

oh wow
we didnt get much...just icy ...may snow as they saying its going to be below freezing!

[Tania]

Your bushes didn't loose their leaves during the winter :) . How tall is Aster Michaelmas Daisy bush?

[Kirsten]

No snow here... 60 degrees!!!

On the other hand, I went up north to my parents' place for the holidays and my compost pile was frozen completely solid.

[Riz]

Your bushes didn't loose their leaves during the winter :) . How tall is Aster Michaelmas Daisy bush?

they do tania..

^^that pic was taken in mid summer, i just uploaded it recently.. :sunny:

the astor grows like a bush around 3 feet in height and 2 to 3 feet in circumference, not all the flowers bloom at once so you have colour all the way through autumn
pic taken in august 2008
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb26/muslimgrower/daisy.jpg

[Riz]

another butterfly resting on a tulip stem.....


http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb26/muslimgrower/DSC08816-1.jpg


tulips i grew last season..

i had lots of pics, so here are the ones i did not paste up in the tulip thread........



http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb26/muslimgrower/DSC08835.jpg

[~Obsidian~]

Riz I really Really REALLY love your pictures, especially the butterfly ones. Thank you so much for posting them up!

[Riz]

aww thanks..
in that case its YOURS.

:)

[Foz]

mashAllah great pics again!

by the way..is that cd's hanging in the background......or am i losing it lol?

[Riz]

^ He-hee

No you are not losing it.. Indeed they are C.D`s (AOL) they are free in magazines

they make great scarecrows, if you hang them up on bushes and trees around your garden espically when you have sowed seeds in the ground, when the sunlight hits the CD`s beams of light go out everywhere it really scares the birds, so they don't go near the seeds i germinated in the ground and pots, and it does work i have been using them for 2 years, and sometimes beams of light come through the kitchen window and i panic !! lol.. then i remember its the CD`s

and the cd`s last for ages, they are the same ones i hung up 2 years ago..

( remember you heard it all on muslimgrower first ) :)

[~Obsidian~]

Thanks! And LOL at getting scared from the CD lights :D They look perty

[Foz]

oh ok.. i didnt realise...thats handy to know...will tell my parents as the birds tend to eat everything they grow lol...i personally love seeing the birds in the garden...but may rethink that if i get more raspberries and they eat all of them! lol

[Riz]

oh ok.. i didnt realise...thats handy to know...will tell my parents as the birds tend to eat everything they grow lol...i personally love seeing the birds in the garden...but may rethink that if i get more raspberries and they eat all of them! lol

you will still get birds in your garden though... but inshallah not near were you have sowed seeds :)

[~Obsidian~]

Hey Riz I used a couple of your pics in one of my threads on ummah (http://www.ummah.com/forum/showthread.php?t=193208&page=2). Credited you as the photographer!!

[farah]

those purple tulips are beautiful subhanAllah

[Riz]

some more pics i taken during the summer of 2008 at different intervals..


culvers root
Tall, slender spires of pale pink flowers are produced from July to August above whorls of deep green leaves. An elegant perennial that is great for adding height to the border as the flowers are self-supporting
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/culversroot.jpg

[Riz]

the poppies that i grew, the petals fall of just after 24/48 hours

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/poppy.jpg

[Riz]

butterfly on the alium( onion) flower head


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/aliumbulb.jpg

[farah]

The culvers root is so pretty subhan'Allah

[Riz]

Bought these online from www.crocus.co.uk along with the culvers root. they come back every season. :)

Brook Thistle

http://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/perennials/other-perennials/cirsium-rivulare-atropurpureum/classid.78110/
Spectacular, deep crimson thistles appear on erect stems in July and August above spiny, dark green leaves. This handsome, towering thistle is a valuable addition to a summer garden and looks equally at home in a wildflower meadow, beside water or in groups among other perennials. Although it will tolerate dry conditions and partial shade, it does best in a moist, sunny border.http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/thistle.jpg

[Riz]

more snow last night and more to come, and no sand and salt to grit our street..

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/havy.jpg

[Foz]

heres my snowy garden!!!

[~Obsidian~]

Hahahaaa!

[Riz]

heres my snowy garden!!!

pretty much the same as my area, it snowed last night as well around 11.pm.. its still hard snow, it rained for around 10 minutes as well but its all still hanging around...

[Riz]

well its april 2009

my garden is looking horrendous, really overgrown and so many weeds.. so i got my strimmer ( petrol ) and firstly cut all the lanky grass at the back and then i mowed the grass.. still not looking that clever, the garden needs a good tidying up, well at least i made a start on it, couple of days ago i had a huge fire and burnt so many branches and cardboard boxes.

[Tania]

I saw pictures from your vegetable patch and i like how looks your garden :)

[Riz]

the lovely dandelions in the back of the garden :)


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/dandelions-1.jpg

[Sarah]

The back of your garden is a bit wild Riz! Methinks you need to get the lawnmower out.

:butterfly3:

[Riz]

i mowed it a few days a go... :GreenThumbs:

looking a lot better now, just going to wait for a nice day so i can burn stuff in the garden

i love fires:90

[Sarah]

i mowed it a few days a go... :GreenThumbs:

looking a lot better now, just going to wait for a nice day so i can burn stuff in the garden

i love fires:90

Burning isn't very 'green'...:p

[edibles]

Burning isn't very 'green'...:p


no, more orangey red. lol.

on a serious note, it isnt green but I cant blame riz i like fire probably as much as riz does

[Riz]

flower patch

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/garden-1.jpg

[~Obsidian~]

Lovely :)

[Riz]

hibiscus ( sharon rose)

i have been growing these from branch cuttings for 3 seasons...


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/IMGP1506.jpg



some more in the back of the garden

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/IMGP1527.jpg

[Riz]

this is climbing through the apple tree n the back of the garden.

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/IMGP1529.jpg

[~Obsidian~]

Your garden must be a veritable lush green jungle! Masha Allah :D

[Riz]

they sell them for 3.99 for one branch at BnQ, but they are so easy to grow from branches, they are really hardy.. just cut the branches and leave them in a bucket of water overnight and plant them in the ground, simple as that !!!!

[Riz]

neighbours pear tree is packing on weight too :)

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/peartree-1.jpg

[Riz]

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/IMGP2007.jpg





http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/IMGP2005.jpg

[Riz]

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/IMGP1825.jpg

[tahir_phoenix]

Your apples look like they are ready to eat, mine are nowhere near that size yet - your garden looks great, everythings growing really well :goodpost:

[edibles]

you have a superb garden

[farah]

they sell them for 3.99 for one branch at BnQ, but they are so easy to grow from branches, they are really hardy.. just cut the branches and leave them in a bucket of water overnight and plant them in the ground, simple as that !!!!

Sub'hanAllah

[Riz]

garden is look a bit untidy today.. i am picking up bucket full of apples off from the ground every day.. some flowers have yet to bloom, some have fully completed the growing and flowering cycle...

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/gg2.jpg

[Riz]

:tree-huggin:

[edibles]

harvesting already?

[Riz]

^ the apples are immature and they drop off, so i just bin them....

[Tania]

What do you understand by immature? They look big enough to be cooked at least-the apple cakes are delicious. Don't waste them.

[Riz]

What do you understand by immature? They look big enough to be cooked at least-the apple cakes are delicious. Don't waste them.

these apples just fell from the tree, I do eat some of them but they are really sour...

you are welcome to come around any time to pick them up and take them tania :)

[Tania]

these apples just fell from the tree, I do eat some of them but they are really sour...
If they are sour....:( you have to add more sugar to cake...not healthy.

[Riz]

The pear tree


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/pertree.jpg

[edibles]

:licks lips:

[Riz]

its my neighbours tree too be honest, but one huge healthy branch dangles on my side of the fence and i can take them... :cigar2:

[Tania]

You are doing the right thing. My neighbour cut off from the wallnut tree branches (instead to enjoy the nuts :rolleyes:)

[~Obsidian~]

The ones at work are almost ripe :D looovely ones! When the cherries were ripe then we had fresh cherries, now the pears come..

[tahir_phoenix]

:tree-huggin:

Your garden looks great Riz, everything in full swing!! And you have way more apples than me already - i've only collected around 20 so far and not as many on the trees either :tumbleweed:

[Ummbilal]

I completely forgot about this forum..but am back,

I was a beginner in feb time as just moved to a house from a flat with no garden, since then we have planted and grown and in some cases eaten!!

basil, carrots,radish, lettuce, spring onions, and just picked my first pumpkin! we've harvested, elderberries and made jam and used the blackberries to make sorbet.

inshaallah am gonna plant more spring onions and radish and plant some winter potatoes to help break up the ground inshaallah.

i had some beautiful lillies grown from bulbs but the boys kicked the football into my flower patch and the heads got knocked off before they bloomed..:(

[~Obsidian~]

Masha'Allah UmmB, pictures?

Rizla, how goes the garden now?

[Dokymake73]

I was very pleased with the agastache that I planted in this garden.

[Riz]

Rizla, how goes the garden now?

well its march 2010.. and the garden is looking overgrown with grass and weeds, so my next job is to start to clean up the garden slowly and tidy it up a little... pics to come soon !!!

[Riz]

sunny and warm today , with blue skies

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC00776-1.jpg

[Riz]

i have so much work to do in my garden... weeds have overgrown, pots from last season need to be emptied and moved, washing line snapped off gonna have to replace that, need to mow the lawn and set fire to some rubbish but that will be after 7pm, dont want the riot police to come around and arrest me LOL...

[Riz]

I had a really productive day today.. spent some time in the garden cleaning up and moving things about, i couldn't believe the amount of pots and containers i accumulated in the last few years, there was so many of them in all sizes, Then i sorted out the veg patch that was overgrown with weeds so i put my gardening gloves on and spent a good hour cleaning it all up, threw all the weeds on the fire heap i will start soon, there is nothing like a good :90 to excite you LOL. i have a path in the middle of the garden that goes from the back door to the back of the garden and i couldnt even see it, it was so overgrown, so i spent an hour strimming the grass and pulling out weeds.. Now slowly my garden is taking shape, still will do more cleaning up on the weekend, The grass is overgrown at the back of the garden too, so after the fire i will mow the grass...

[Harjun]

you got loads of really nice plants how do you remember to look after all of them? :D
Do you sometimes forget which one is what? NICE!

[Riz]

plants dont need much looking after, they do that all by themselves :). i use to label my pots at one time a few season ago, these days i forget what's in what pot, so its always a nice surprise for me :)

lit a fire last night, it was really windy and the fire kept changing directions, so instead of making one huge fire i added little bits to the fire to keep it small...

[Harjun]

cool, you should have used a big metal drum or something to keep the fire in, thats what we do and its really safe too :)

[Riz]

i like the danger of knowing i could potentially burn the whole street down LOL...

[Riz]

apple blossoms :)

both of my apple tress

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC01083.jpg


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC01082.jpg

[Riz]

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC01086.jpg

[Riz]

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC01334.jpg

[Riz]

brook thistle


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/boo-1.jpg




queen elizabeth rose bush

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC01758.jpg

[Riz]

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC01884.jpg








http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC01863.jpg


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC01857.jpg

[Riz]

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC01840.jpg





http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC01865.jpg

[Riz]

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC01892.jpg

[Tania]

Ohh Riz you have that little bugs what eat my roses too. What measures are you taking to get rid off them?

[Riz]

cut flowers from my garden

iris+ roses+ alium+ thistle

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC02321-1.jpg


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC02266.jpg

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC02274.jpg

[Riz]

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC02280.jpg

[Riz]

beautiful day today,, just loving it :)


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC02299.jpg

[Foz]

i love the pink ones mashAllah

[Riz]

thanks foz :)


moved the grass that other day :)


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC02373.jpg

[Tania]

The bouquet its lovely. you are watching politics..lol:p

[Riz]

some pics from the garden


red hot poker



the seeds forming on the poker, still green though, few more weeks and then i can harvest the seeds.

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC02483.jpg


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC02481.jpg

[Riz]

my apple tree


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC02472-1.jpg



pear tree

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC02486.jpg

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC02485.jpg

[Tania]

You will have healthy big fruits :)

[Riz]

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC02577.jpg

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC02579-1.jpg

[Riz]

culvers root

bees love them :)

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC03272.jpg

[Riz]

red hot poker

seeds are maturing on the stalk...


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC03314.jpg


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC03316.jpg

[Riz]

so many apples this season from both trees,,,

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC03580.jpg

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC03581.jpg

[Foz]

MashAllah the trees are doing well! :cheerleader:

My apple tree is quite small - last year gave me about 3 apples and this year none....is it normal for them to miss a season?

If not then im going to pull it out i think and plant something else

[Riz]

salaam fozia..

usually one has to wait a few seasons to get a decent yield on the fruit tree this is because the tree spends most of its energy in developing the root ball and you only get a few apples on the tree in the first maybe 2 seasons, its best to just pick off the fruit because this causes the tree to spend all its energy on the fruit instead of root development, so next season IA it would have been established and you should get more fruit on the tree :)

[Foz]

wa alaikum asalaam

Oh i didnt know that otherwise i would have removed the fruit last year.

This is its third year so will see what it does next year!

[Riz]

need several pairs of hands to pick up the apples everyday


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC03615.jpg

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC03631.jpg



http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC03634.jpg



http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC03618.jpg

[rubmanhayat]

Riz, did you plant these yourself? Was it from seed or a cutting? How many years has it been? I want to grow some stuff in winter. Is it possible?

[Riz]

the apple trees?

NO, they were here when i bought the house, I think they are at least 30 years old..

but you can get the dwarf varieties of almost ever type of fruit which will yield in the first season and double the yield in the second and third seasons and they can be grown in pots too..

here is a link just for reading
http://www.spaldingbulb.co.uk/index.aspx?N=905103&promotion=J2&campaign=google&gclid=CIjD9YKHy6MCFYZo4wodLR-Rvw

[~Obsidian~]

Looks like it was beautiful, masha'Allah!

[Riz]

collected some pears today, I will leave them in a darkened cupboard for a few days that will soften up the fruit :) they taste really delicious too.

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC03884.jpg

[Tania]

If do you pick more pears you could make a good jam from them. In winter time ...

[Riz]

poor ladybird :(

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/ladyweb.jpg

[Tania]

You shouldn't have post the photo - its sad.

[~Obsidian~]

Hey if that ladybird was alive and well would you be saying 'poor aphid'? I don't think so :p a spider's gotta eat! Everything has a set time to die, it was Mr. Ladybird's (how's that for gender confusion? :p) time and his death gave something else life.

[Riz]

bunny tails grown in plastic trough





http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC03922.jpg

[Riz]

autumn colours


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC04193.jpg


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC04195.jpg


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC04196.jpg

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC04215.jpg

[Riz]

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC04216.jpg

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC04207-2.jpg

[Riz]

culvers root

dying back, its a perennial so it will bounce back in spring of next year

[Riz]

weather is improving slowly gonna clean up garden on weekend, cant wait for this season to really start.. :cheerleader::cheerleader::cheerleader:

[~Obsidian~]

Ditto :D

[Riz]

apple blossoms

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC04743.jpg

[Riz]

mowed the garden today, still more to do on sunday

[Riz]

2011 season


Perennial flowers, cuttings of plants i taken last season

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC04831.jpg



apple blossoms


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC04840.jpg



mint basket

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC04849.jpg

[Riz]

a view from my back garden

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC04984.jpg

[Riz]

red hot poker

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC05742.jpg

[Riz]

hibiscus ( sharon rose )

buds developing


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC05790.jpg


flowers fully bloomed

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC05798.jpg


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC05789.jpg

[Foreveryoung]

Shucks.. i wonder what went wrong to my net probably. Cant see any pics on the forum....

[Foreveryoung]

But Riz... You should start posting these pics in a new thread Summer 2011 n0w :)

[Riz]

summer 2011




http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC05916.jpg

[Tania]

Only now i see the flowers are not growing nearby to the vegetables.:o

[Riz]

hibsicus ( sharon rose)

flowers really blooming now


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC05948.jpg

[Foreveryoung]

summer 2011
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC05916.jpg


This is such a classic pic Mashallah. You are growing such a vast variety and after looking at the collection of different veggies and flowers, an idea just hit my mind. Why don't you begin working on your very own Garden Encyclopedia ? Kids would love that ? Label everything from A to Z and then sow/ plant the flowers or vegetables starting from a missing Alphabet in ur garden :) Ask kids to find flowers starting from A ? Let's find vegetables starting from P ? lol I am sure you got almost every alphabet in ur garden :)

You have arranged all your pots very aesthetically and they look so pleasing to the eyes. :GreenThumbs: Mashallah such a tidy garden. Its obvious how much effort you put in to make it look like the way it is.

[Riz]

thanks ash.


hibiscus, most of the blooms have opened , it has so many

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC05953.jpg


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC05954.jpg

[~Obsidian~]

Masha'Allah x 1000! Your garden is so beautiful!

[Foreveryoung]

hibiscus, most of the blooms have opened , it has so many


Mashallah trillion times Riz. I had a same look before and used to have so many flowers on a sunny day =)

I realize pruning your beloved green thing is hard for you to do, but it is for the future health of the tree! My Hibiscus was growing wild and it was hard for me to manage it and I feared that one day it would collapse . The soil around its roots was getting lose because of its weight and the bushy tree was just falling down. I once tied it along the fence on the wall but no use…… So here’s what I we did today =( I miss my flowers though.


http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/ss217/AyeshaUK2009/Transferring%20plants/DSCN8724.jpg

http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/ss217/AyeshaUK2009/Transferring%20plants/DSCN8725.jpg

http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/ss217/AyeshaUK2009/Transferring%20plants/DSCN8726.jpg

http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/ss217/AyeshaUK2009/Transferring%20plants/DSCN8727.jpg

[Foreveryoung]

Before

http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/ss217/AyeshaUK2009/Flowers/DSCN7300.jpg

http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/ss217/AyeshaUK2009/Flowers/DSCN7306.jpg

After
http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/ss217/AyeshaUK2009/Flowers/DSCN8742.jpg
Did not want to throw the branches along with flowers , so they are placed where I can look them round the clock for few days at least. Lol
http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/ss217/AyeshaUK2009/Transferring%20plants/DSCN8731.jpg

[Riz]

that is really beautiful plant... and your garden looks amazing :)

[Riz]

apples on my tree :)


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/Photo0398.jpg

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/Photo0397.jpg

[Riz]

blackberries growing in the back of my garden


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/Photo0453.jpg

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/Photo0452.jpg

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/Photo0450.jpg

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/Photo0449.jpg

[Riz]

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/Photo0448.jpg

[Tania]

With whipped cream has a great taste. :)

[Riz]

collected some just now... washed them off and they are really sweet and mildly sour at the same time really yummy !!! and there is so many of them in different stages of growth , some are still green and some have matured, looks like ill be enjoying these for a while yet :)

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/balckberies.jpg

[Foreveryoung]

apples on my tree :)


You got so many apples mA. Here's i found some recipe / May be u want to try tht.

Golden Apples

Method:
In a pan pour orange juice, lemon juice, sugar and water.
Heat this mixture while stirring till slightly thickens.
Peel apples, let them whole and do not cut in segments.
Now in prepared juice mixture put apples and cook for 30-35 minutes.
Add cinnamon powder into this.
And serve with whipped cream.

[Foreveryoung]

collected some just now... washed them off and they are really sweet and mildly sour at the same time really yummy !!!

Mashallah they are so many. really excited to see them :GreenThumbs:
You can make Berry Delight or may be Berry pies or jams or welll nothings like eating them fresh :)

[Foreveryoung]

apples on my tree :)


You are so blessed having an apple tree and mashallah with so much fruit on it. We went to buy fruit to stock some for Ramadan ul Mubarak and the prices were touching the sky. Grapes for Rs 200 per kg. .Peaches for Rs 60/- per kg… and Apples were for Rs 150 per kg too and the price varied as there were different types of apples.
I always make this health tonic for my father who is a heart patient. You all must have heard about App le Cider Vinegar and it’s endless health benefits. If not just google it. The thing I make is also recommended by different doctors especially the ones who advocate Herbal Treatments…. Hakeems.
All you need is apples , honey and garlic.
But I also added some cinnamon sticks (known for remedy for heart patients… ) some mint ( to cut down strong flavor of garlic and ginger) some cloves and lemon juice. You can make it daily or c a prepare it in bulk and preserve it in refrigerator . That’s what I did. Just reheat and sip a glass of this Apple Garlic drink daily before your breakfast. It burns your fat as well as help the clogged arteries to open iA along with other numerous health benefits. So do try it if God forbid u have a heart patient at home or ven a healthy person can always try it to kick out any possible ailment. It has magical effects :)

http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/ss217/AyeshaUK2009/DSCN8857-1.jpg

[Riz]

yummy ash :)

[Riz]

apples .. so many i am picking up lots and lots everyday, gonna compost them..



http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/Photo0720.jpg

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/Photo0722.jpg

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/Photo0719.jpg

pears

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/Photo0760.jpg

[Riz]

culvers root at the front and at the back pink flowers is the hibiscus ( sharon rose)

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/culversroot-1.jpg

[Foreveryoung]

culvers root at the front and at the back pink flowers is the hibiscus ( sharon rose)




This is one of my most fav pic of ur garden. yellow touch of squash flowers looks so cute .

http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/ss217/AyeshaUK2009/Photo0774.jpg

[Foreveryoung]

I hope Lupins also grow wildly in the same quantity in ur garden iA. Good Luck :GreenThumbs:

[Riz]

more blackberries

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/Photo0908.jpg

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/Photo0910.jpg

[Riz]

bowl full of pears i collected today, still hard so gonna leave them in cool dark cupboard for a few days that will soften them up a little.

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/Photo1070.jpg

[Foreveryoung]

bowl full of pears i collected today, still hard so gonna leave them in cool dark cupboard for a few days that will soften them up a little.


This is real torture. I still remember the taste of pears grown in UK. Soooooo delicious :) But here in Pakistan they are really bland. You are so lucky Mashallah to have these Home Grown Pears. I remember we used to wait for Thursday Market to buy fruit. LOL. otherwise too expensve in Tesco... and Asda and Sainsburry;s were even more expensive.

[noora]

Very beautiful

thank you Riz