Fall, winter & spring blooms 2011-12, Karachi

[Izhar]

Too much morning light has decreased the picture quality.

Nicotianas:



Madame Butterfly Sanps, starting to bloom, mildly scented too:




Calla lily, one inflorescence is up one is forming at base:

[ayub]

Masha'Allah so beautiful. You peti idea is so ingenious and innovative.
I wonder how you keep on managing all this with your job and study. I've got only few pots and i found it hard to manage.
It seems that you didn't put a fence around your garden, aren't there any naughty kids or goats around in your neighbourhood

[Izhar]

Kids here are well behaved... sometime goats and dogs do some damage but its a part of this hobby.. my father help me alot in managing it..

[Izhar]

These all were volunteer seedlings growing here and there in the yard, just collected them and made a bed for them, open pollinated antirrhinums:



Dependable Gladiolus:



And my favorite plant in the whole yard, Madame Butterfly Antirrhinums, they are branching out so well:

[UMARKHANMARDAN]

Izhar i m thinking i have made a mistake this year i have not planted Madame Butterfly.i use to plant these beauties every year.you Madames are great man,tightly packed double flowers.ur Glads are also nice.

[Johara]

Umar thank you for sharing the beauties... Johara, did you see your gift in the pics?? the Calla lilies?? the fruit crate will hold portulacas and purslane in the summers... yes we will be meeting at the flower show inshaAllah

Yes I have Yours are doing so much better than mine Maybe I should have planted them in the ground.

[Muhammad Arif Khan]

DEPENDABLE GLADS
Are these from corms saved from previous years? if so how do you store them?

[Muhammad Arif Khan]

What is the white powder arround your beds? is it lime if so why do you use it?

[Izhar]

Yes Sir, these Glads are with me for more than 5 years ... I just dig the corms in April, dry them in shade and keep in a cardboard box in my closet ...nothing fancy at all..

The white powder is a byproduct of the marble tiles grinding and polishing... my father used it just for lining the beds with no other particular intention... but it is keeping the ants away up to a certain extent...

[Izhar]

Tomato Yellow Stuffer, will be making stuffed tomatoes by tomorrow inshaAllah:




One year old Osteospermum, just loving these perennials, other flowers are marigolds, zinnias, nasturtiums, euphorbia: