Oh my what a week it was! First we had some real rain on Monday and Tuesday. Then the heat came once again and it was a scorcher this weekend. I had a great harvest of blueberries and mulberries. There is a mulberry tree in our community garden near the compost pile. The reason it has such amazing mulberries has to do with the fact that it is getting a lot of nutrients from the compost pile. Who knows? After a few mulberry picking session, you get tired of your fingers and clothes getting stained with the reddish juice. The blueberries are paying for itself. I was visiting San Gabriel Nursery today. They had some good blueberry bushes out there for sale. Still it is hard to shell out twenty or thirty bucks but after a few years, it is quite worth the investment. I got a couple of 15 gallon nursery pots and a few gifts for my mom for Mother's Day. She came with me.
Oh my, this is the most fragrant rose besides Gertrude Jekyll. I had to pick one because I wanted to take one to my mom. The fragrance can make you just swoon over it. It is just too hard to describe. Got to smell it to believe it. It looks like a cabbage. This rose made me a David Austin fan. I never really cared much about roses until I met this one. My first rose bush ever. I watered the garden today, picked some blooms for my mom, planted a few more zucchini seeds, harvested the argula, picked the blueberries and deadheaded the roses. All this morning because I was sick yesterday.
This is one of the mini-bouquets I made for my mom today. It is so nice that I can just walk into my little garden and pick to my delight. It is so important that the roses have a sweet scent. All the roses that I see at the store don't have any scent due to the fact that maybe they are bred that way so they last longer. I also think that Mother's Day is in May when the roses are at their peak especially in Southern California. The heat is so unnatural though at this time. The petals get all crispy and ugly at the edges and sometimes, they just get deformed.
My present to my mom and some.
I think my mom has a Valencia orange tree. Right now it has the most juiciest and sweetest oranges on it. This tree has given us a lot of oranges over a decade and it is going on strong. We even gave our daughter a middle name in Hawaiian-orange blossom since we love it so much.
This is my Kaffir lime tree that my mom has been babysitting for the past few years. It is relatively small but the leaves and the fruit are just fragrant. It loves the heat and I look forward to taking it with me in the future. Sometime I take a break and garden at my mom's. She has so many amazing plants and trees. Before I got married, I planted two fig trees. Mission and Kadota. One stands for me and the other for my husband. Interesting right? It has been 10 years since and the trees are just beautiful. Thank you mom for making me a gardener just like you! I love you very much!
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