MARIETTE'S BACK TO BASICS

After having been to the Congress in Hong Kong, we continued traveling to Australia for another Congress in Sydney. Next we flew to Melb...

It is a sunny day today but rather cool. My final days for 2016 are not as planned, fighting a bronchitis. But still, it is a time for...

We all LOVE to have some fresh cut flowers from our own garden... Even if it means only a few of them! On our kitchen table... on J...

On November 11, I could make this photo from our Clerodendrum Ugandese - Blue Butterfly Bush and also called Blue Glorybower. A gem from  ...

Last year we bought a new Jasminum Sambac - Jasmine Grand Duke of Tuscany from  Logee's  and this year it did yield its first fragran...

A treat for the hummingbirds is our fragrant, honey dripping Hoya Carnosa or Wax Plant. Husband Pieter did capture them on camera for you...

One more exotic and highly fragrant beauty I would like to introduce to you. Clerodendrum Philippinum or Cashmere Bouquet. They look lik...

Last year our young Clerodendrum Ugandense or Blue Butterfly Bush, Blue Glorybower, almost succumbed to the summer heat. Great was our j...

Just like to show you more of our citrus, these photos are from June 6 and the last one is from August 12 of 2010 so you can see the end...