Reap what you sow

During spring/summer, I had sown a few varieties of vegetable for our own consumption. Over here, a lot of people has started to dig in on their garden plot or allotment to grow their own vegetables. For me, I grew them in pots or grow bags. Frankly speaking, the harvest was bountiful over a long period of time right up to end of autumn. I had grown salad leaves, cherry tomatoes, celery, spinach, french bean, aubergines and even chillis. All is well except for the tiny fruit I had on aubergine plant. Well, I'm not disheartened, at least I had fresh supply from my garden. Of course I grew herbs as well like thyme, rosemary, chives, parsley and coriander.
Here I share with you some pictures of my plant and harvest from my kitchen garden.

Harvest of salad leaves, chillis, cherry tomatoes and celery

The last batch of my ripening cherry tomatoes

Tulips and Magonolia

Begining of April, spring bulbs blossom here and there, especially tulips, one of my favorites. There are many to choose from, be it colors, height, petal's shape and early or late flowering. They're so easy to grow, so far I have yet to have any failures in growing tulips :-), One has to grow them in the autumn to get spectacular display in spring, hence my favorite plant. The only drawback is that one need to lift the bulb after 3years as the flowering quality degrades over the year. But that gives me more reason to buy more new bulbs every year :-) . And tulips make good cut flowers. For tulips lover, one should visit Kuekenhof garden in Holland .
Some of you may go over to Japan to chase cherry blossom, but I'm content with what we've got over here....spectacular Magnolia blossom with sweet fragant. I managed to photograph some magnolia tree in blossom (not in my garden but my neighbor's). :-)
Enjoy the color again from my garden................. oops (some of you may wonder, food blog turning into gardening blog, fear not....I still have lots of recipes to share....just that spring is the busiest month for me in the garden.....always nice to hear neighbors commenting on how nice one garden is :-).

Dwarf white tulips with apricot stripes

Tulips Queen of Night (Apparently not as black as I hoped)

Dwarf Tulips yellow and red stripes-look like a crown

Tulip White Dream
Tulip Red Apeldoorn with Tulip white dream
Giant Tulip Red Apeldoorn
My favorite border of Red Apeldoorn

Spectacular Magnolia

Whole tree full of blossom

Close up shot of Magnolia

Picture almost perfect :-)