Pretty Yellow Cucumber Flower
All praise be to Allah SWT finally we have cucumber flowers!
The first time I saw a picture of the flower on the internet, I have been searching high and low for mine to appear. I love the brightness and delicateness of the flower. Somehow this picture reminds me of my marriage (blush...). I can imagine that the leaves are the protective arms of husband while I am the flower!
Our biggest tomato plant is also growing well. I'm so glad that I transplanted the seedling to this pot last month so that its roots have space to grow deep in the soil.
Our improved meyer's lemon tree is bearing lots of fruits in clusters now. When they are about the size of a marble, I will have to cut all but one in one cluster so that it will continue to bear fruits later.
All praise be to Allah SWT the patio garden is my sanctuary now. When I am not quilting I just love to hang out here to enjoy the beautiful sight.
Quotations about Gardens
My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. ~H. Fred Ale
There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling. ~Mirabel Osler
The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. ~Hanna Rion
In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. ~Abram L. Urban
Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans. ~Marcelene Cox
I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from and Old Manse
When one of my plants dies, I die a little inside, too. ~Linda Solegato
Gardens are a form of autobiography. ~Sydney Eddison, Horticulture magazine, August/September 1993
Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity. ~Lindley Karstens, noproblemgarden.com
Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy. ~Astrid Alauda
No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden. ~Hugh Johnson
One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. ~W.E. Johns, The Passing Show
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. ~Douglas William Jerrold, about Australia, A Land of Plenty
The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth,
One is nearer God's heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on earth.
~Dorothy Frances Gurney, "Garden Thoughts"
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. ~Alfred Austin
The first time I saw a picture of the flower on the internet, I have been searching high and low for mine to appear. I love the brightness and delicateness of the flower. Somehow this picture reminds me of my marriage (blush...). I can imagine that the leaves are the protective arms of husband while I am the flower!
Our biggest tomato plant is also growing well. I'm so glad that I transplanted the seedling to this pot last month so that its roots have space to grow deep in the soil.
Our improved meyer's lemon tree is bearing lots of fruits in clusters now. When they are about the size of a marble, I will have to cut all but one in one cluster so that it will continue to bear fruits later.
All praise be to Allah SWT the patio garden is my sanctuary now. When I am not quilting I just love to hang out here to enjoy the beautiful sight.Quotations about Gardens
My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. ~H. Fred Ale
There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling. ~Mirabel Osler
The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. ~Hanna Rion
In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. ~Abram L. Urban
Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans. ~Marcelene Cox
I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from and Old Manse
When one of my plants dies, I die a little inside, too. ~Linda Solegato
Gardens are a form of autobiography. ~Sydney Eddison, Horticulture magazine, August/September 1993
Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity. ~Lindley Karstens, noproblemgarden.com
Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy. ~Astrid Alauda
No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden. ~Hugh Johnson
One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. ~W.E. Johns, The Passing Show
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. ~Douglas William Jerrold, about Australia, A Land of Plenty
The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth,
One is nearer God's heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on earth.
~Dorothy Frances Gurney, "Garden Thoughts"
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. ~Alfred Austin
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