Flowers and Foliage in 2013 - A glimpse

Zooming up close!

And below, a promise of things to come in 2014!

Shared with Floral Friday, Today's Flowers, Saturday Show Off, Pink Saturday,  Weekend Reflections,  Macro Monday 2, Monday Mellow Yellows, Wordless Wednesday, ABC Wednesday and 

Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day.

Coleus, Portulacas and Spider Lilies

Some images from Year 2013....

Thanks to the team at Wordless Wednesday.

My roof top terrace garden

All I will say is that I am rather pleased with my roof top terrace garden these days!
Lets get Wordless! on ABC Wedesday!

Ornamental foliage..time for a change!

All summer my garden and my balcony have been mostly devoid of flowers. My attempts at growing Sunflowers and Zinnias failed miserably. I needed to see some color and soon! So I went to a nursery and treated myself to some bright red Poinsettias and some brightly colored Coleus.

With foliage colored as brightly as that, who needs flowers?!

Unusual looking plant

At the flower show I attended recently I saw two very unusual plants. One was a foliage plant (above)with leaves that looked like butterfly wings. The stem was very thin and black like a string. At the leaf edges there were tiny black dots (can be seen at the upper left of the photo).I have no idea what plant it is as it wasn't tagged except for a prize it had won. But it was really beautiful and delicate looking. Never seen anything like it.

The other was this beautiful Chrysanthemum. The thing unusual about it was its color. It's the first time I have seen a greenish colored flower! It was really sooo beautiful.

Garden foliage collection....the remains!

During the construction of my house I lost many many plants to careless workers who couldn't understand why I was so bothered about saving them. Even though we moved the pots umpteen number of times trying to keep them out of the way we still lost many to falling rubble, careless handling etc. These are the few that I have left. You will notice I'm partial to green.

Though I do love flowers they seem to be more like 'fair weather friends' whereas the greenery is always there!

A visit to the garden nursery continued

I absolutely love foliage plants and my garden always has more green than color. So while at the nursery I just soaked in the green all around.