This year I was asked to grow flowers for son number three’s wedding. Bit of a big ask for me as things don’t always go to plan in the jungle.
I started with sweetpeas. They germinated okay but somehow failed to thrive, despite me watering them in dry periods. Only a few blooms appeared. I sowed cosmos in the greenhouse and the slugs rushed in. Luckily I managed to save a few and they did grow well, in the centre of our petangon bed.
Grew tall due to leaf mold in underlying soil
That worked well in the church flower arrangments – shame that I can’t flower arrange though.
One Dahlia (cactus) decided to flower and this was used in the pedestal arrangement
Only flowering dahlia made it to the pedestal arrangemet in the church
Spot the cosmos too!
Of course, now that the wedding has been and gone, the dahlias are flowering much better.. Maybe because I fed them some chicken manure rich compost, the flowers are much bigger this year. I found this one drooping due to its sheer weight
Large dahlia bloom bowed down by its own weight
Gardening in a Jungle 