To us, February is the month of harvesting. It means a lot of labour work in our backyard. We just managed to pick all the peaches off the tree on Sunday, now we need to harvest grapes in the next 1-2 weeks (before birds leave their marks on every single one of them). This year [...]

With the grape vines rapidly are forming the shady area in our backyard, we have started our outdoor living for this summer. My husband is obsessed with them. He sworn that he wouldn’t trade our grape vines for anything. He spends hours and hours staring at them and clipped away anything that has grown beyond [...]

I planted about 20 ranunculus bulbs with V early of May in a tiny little garden bed next to the grape vines. Now they are starting to give us the rewards. Blooming with bright colours, from yellow, orange, green, hot pink, red to almost black, they grow rapidly and surprise us everyday. The whole purpose [...]

The spring has finally come. It is not a pleasure that you can push to have but only when you understand how to wait its turn to arrive. We have been busy in the back yard, pruning, weeding, planting, cleaning…. I can’t wait to see the grape vines are to be covered by the big [...]

Remember I mentioned a camellia tree in the previous post? I found another one today. So we have two. I know it sound a little blizzard. How come a person who has been claiming that she loves camellia, but couldn’t recognise a simple camellia tree in such a limited sized backyard. I didn’t, until they [...]

After we moved into this place, one of our friends told us to wait for a full year before we start any gardening work. I suppose I know what he meant by words, but only with a very shallow understanding about the true meaning of it. In the past few months, talking about summer, we [...]