albizia julibrissin – GWENNIESGARDENWORLD

August 26, 2024August 26, 2024

HELLO AGAIN

Sorry for the long silence but I haven’t been able to take a lot of new photo’s, it’s not really a good garden year cos of the weather, it was either too hot or too wet, and all the heavy rain ruined a lot of my flowers. I do hope next year will be better. I am also trying to make the garden easier to maintain. I did manage to take a few new pictures though.

Garden geranium, one of my favorites

This hydrangea sits next to the pond, as you can see, some of the leafs are burned from the sun.

Crocosmia lucifer

Dipladenia, also called Mandevilla, a climber I got as a gift, it is in a pot as it is not winterhardy here but it performs well.

My passiflora caerulea performs well as the flowers stay open just for one day. there are new flowers all the time, it grows very fast. This one is one of the most winterhardy passionflowers.

This flower is from my albizia julibrissin, the flowers are normally pink but this one is white, I don’t know why.

I hope you al had a better Summer. Take care and enjoy your garden whenever you can.

May 13, 2024

AN EXPERIMENT

I have been experimenting with some of my pictures, I made them from color into black and whites.

Date palm fruit stalk.

Huge opuntia bush against the sky.

Curly tree branches.

Albizia julibrissin leafs.

Tree branch.

Opuntia disk in a pot.

Have a great week !!

July 15, 2023

A FEW RECENT PICTURES

We have a weird Summer this year, the temperatures go up slowly to about 30 C° and then go down again to about 20 C° and then up again, once in a while we get rain or a storm. I am not complaining, I just think it is weird. When you see what is happening all over the world with fires and floods, extreem high temperatures and severe draughts I think we are the lucky ones.

This is the view when you park on our drive way. The bricks you see are from the garage, it has small leafed ivy growing on the walls. On the right you see one of my apple trees, on the left you have the fig tree, the pink flowers belong to the Albizzia jullibrissin . On the right behind the garage is my elder tree. And the green leafs at the back belong to the cherry laurel (prunus Laurocerasus). I love this view, gives me a bit of a jungle feeling.

One of the bird houses in the ivy.

A closer look at the Albizzia julibrissin , also called silk tree. What is not to love ?

As I still can’t walk longer than about 10 minutes I can’t go out to take pictures elsewhere

Have a great weekend, I hope you are all ok.

July 30, 2022July 31, 2022

PICTURES FROM MY GARDEN

It has been hot lately and dry, so the garden doesn’t look good at the moment, there are a lot of dry leaves of plants and of tree’s, it looks like autumn at the moment. But I found a few nice flowers who still looked good.

This annual malva is so heath resistant, on a hot day the leafs are hanging vertically on the plant and you think it is going to die, but the next morning it surprises you and it looks fresh again with normal leafs. I was amazed !

**ALBIZIA JULIBRISSIN** or Persian silk tree

This tree is also heath resistant, it is a bee magnet, the whole tree is buzzing during the day. In the evening the leafs close up. It is filled with beautiful pink and white flowers , but with the heath they fade faster than usual. It is not a huge tree, ideal for smaller gardens.

This begonia is a bulb plant, I bought a few of these several years ago, I put them in a pot in Spring and they bloom all Summer long, in Autumn I take the bulbs out of their pot and put them in an old newspaper and in a frost free but cold room. In Spring I put them again in new soil in pots. They thrive in the shade but they need moist soil. An old lady told me she had the same begonia’s for over 50 years !!! And each year they were covered in flowers.

This is a flower on one of my hibiscus bushes, they too fade sooner now that it is so hot but it is an easy bush, they come in many different colours and they are a real asset in your garden. They are winterdardy in Western-Europe but not in colder area’s.

This is one of my fuchsia plants, most of them like living in the shade in a pot, in moist soil. This one is in the sun, as you can see but I put it there to make this picture.

Have a great weekend and enjoy your garden.

April 20, 2020April 20, 2020

ALWAYS THE LAST ONE

My Albizzia tree is always the last one to get new leafs in Spring, at the moment it is still completely bare when all my other tree’s have fresh new leafs, but you can see the buds.