Fairy Roses and 4 o'clocks
Thursday, September 13, 2007,9:35 PM
I realise I haven’t posted for quite some time now, so I’m here to update. Today is the first day of
Ramadhan, when the muslims begin their fasting. It felt like a Saturday or a Friday, even because of the holiday feel.
I went to my grandma's for lunch and met my younger guy cousin who's still in chms. He got every single one of my books from last year (he's a year younger than me), so he got to see all the drawings I drew when I was bored. According to him,he deduced that
the more I drew on the book the more boring the class was. Sad, to say, that was quite true, because back in my other school a lot of classes were way boring. For example in mib class I practiced drawing eyes and got found out by the teacher who showed it to the entire class.
And he told me a lot about chms, that my dancing teacher is leaving, a new Chinese orchestra teacher came to Brunei to teach. And also that he is now a volleyball and track and field pro. Ahaha so proud of my cousin =)
After lunch we went shopping and I stocked on a supply of
mars bars. And while I was at it I saw this entire rack full of flowers. So for some reason I was instantly hit by the gardening bug, and I decided to plant some flowers and see if I was
green-fingered at all.
I bought the following flowers:
Fairy Rose
Miniature rose bushes bearing white to pale pink, sweet-scented, semi-double blooms free flowering and has subtle shades. Prefers warm and high humidity.
And I noted on the packet that I takes 7 weeks for it to germinate, almost two months! In bold letters below the description,
BE PATIENT, germination CAN take weeks. If it turns out pretty, i guess i'll be willing to wait.
4 o'clock
this one, according to the packet 'flowers open in late afternoon, remain open all night and usually close before noon the next day. ' I think this flower was special because of that, so i'm going to try planting this. Germination takes 7 days, the full height of the plant will be 60cm.
the next was a combination of several hardy, sun loving and brilliantly coloured flowers tolerant to hot and dry conditions.
Zinnias
Marigolds
Asters
sunflowers
and a number of surprises. these will take a varied time to germinate.
Oh, and the neighbour's cat gave birth to little kittens- the special ones being the white coloured blue-eyed ones. there are three of that sort and two that are butterscotch coloured. I'll post the pictures from my sis' camera.
*images found off google image searchLabels: holidays, random
