Garden Affair : This self seed flower tastes like Cranberry

 I have been always astounded about how Nature surprise us in the most pleasant manner. Monsoon is on a state of taking bid adieu for this year  and now in no time Autumn season will arrive in my Garden . 

Autumn season is one such season when Garden sees maximum blooming just after the spring season .The summer annuals are at their peak blooming  and just like spring even self seed plants which emerge post monsoon blooms at the mid of Autumn and continue blooming till the end of  season.

Cranberry Hibiscus or Red leafed Hibiscus which self seeds itself every year  as an annual in my Garden during Autumn  is a beautiful shrub with large red to maroon colored Hibiscus shaped  flowers with elliptical maple shaped leaves . The leaves and flowers both are edible and  even taste like Cranberry fruit. 

                                                                                    

                                                                  

Method of Growing and care 

While Cranberry Hibiscus is a hardy perennial like every other Hibiscus plant it grows well in a Full sunny area  and blooms profusely when fertilized before flowering period. The Cranberry tastes mostly comes from the leaves of plant. The juice extracted from leaves of plants has the taste of Cranberry Juice. 

                                                                 

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Garden Affair : Self seeding surprise

   January weather has been quite unpredictable this year, the first half of month was chilly with fog and rains covering the entire region.  The another half contrary saw sharp rise in temperatures and warmer weather  which is unusual for the month of January. 

The warm temperature has a silver lining for my garden , as the plants dormancy ends and the growth is resumed   . Its a fortunate stroke of   serendipity when spring annuals that self seed themselves are spotted blooming after winters.                                                                        

                       The blessed garden are those where self grown flowers bloom in spring.                                                      

                                                                          French marigold

                                                                Salvia

                                                           California Poppy

Dahlberg daisy

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Garden Affair : Self seeded spring blooms

             Summer has been picking up with day by day increase in soaring temperature and it is right time to bid adieu to spring blooms.  I was taken by surprise when I spotted some of the blooms popping up by themselves in the spring garden. This is what excite me about spring when spring flowers grow by themselves in the season . 

                              I was intrigued by the Ice plant that self seeded itself  and bloomed in spring                                         

The marigolds looked adorable when they chose to grow among pot of petunias 

Larkspur are always fun to spot every spring this time they choose a spot which I planned  to raise a marigold bed and look at this they both are creating a dramatic spring scene together 

It was after monkey haul in the garden my tomatoes plants  grown for the spring  were pulled apart and when I was hopeless  it was in the backyard garden that I spotted self grown tomatoes plants bearing  ripe tomatoes growing under the tree . 

                                                       

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