The Green Thumb Visiting a Flower Garden

Hello everyone! Wow, another week is finally here! February is  quite a not a boring month. There are a lot of things to do especially at home. My days are always busy inspite staying at home all the time.  I wish spring season is around the corner because I am already quite excited to see the tulips in our garden. It is not a long wait anymore because in a month or two,  I will surely be seeing my flowers  in our garden.

Varieties of orchids in the garden center.

This is only one good thing because when I really get  bored, which is  seldom to happen, I always look at the flowers in  my photo albums. If not, I also drive to the nearest garden center. Sometimes, I bring home flowers with me but most of the time, I don't really buy one. Our home is already full of  plants and decors. Every window has  plants and decors on it.  Except when it is spring  or summer,  I cannot say no to buying flowers.

Lovely bromeliads at the garden center. One of the flowers that I love.

One things I love doing when going to a garden center is to take photographs of the different flowers inside. I am glad that even the saleslady or salesman who caught me taking pictures would just say nothing. I am always happy coming home when I am done visiting a garden center.

Have A More Fruitful New Year 2014!

I am slowly saying Goodbye to 2013 and Welcome 2014 with all my heart.

In other parts of the globe, 2014 is already welcomed!

I wish everyone a more fruitful New Year 2014!

May this brand new year bring us love, peace and joy.

Happy New Year 2014!

God bless us all!

The Green Thumb's Musing

The Green Thumb's Musing is a  new site for my hobbies at home. My love for plants and flowers and gardening will be shared in this blog.  It will also include topics about home improvements and renovations, shopping for home and garden accessories, my ideas, thoughts and opinions of anything and also my daily experiences in life will be tackled here.

Sit back and relax and I will  try my best to update this blog from time to time! Have a lovely  day everyone!

Home and Garden Improvements Still Going On

There are still a lot of home improvements that we need to do in our house. Our bathroom needs a total repair plus we need to install a new tilt and turn window. We are planning to replace our old kitchen set hopefully next year. In five years maybe, our roof needs a replacement also. We are just doing all these home improvements little by little when finances are available.

We are currently building a garden terrace and a carport or I would say a garage. Actually these two are adjacent to each other. We found this project a priority especially during winter time. Since we don't have a garage it is very difficult for our two cars to stay outside in open air. Sometimes when you wake-up early in the morning during winter time, everything is already covered with snow. It needs more time and energy to clean it.

the digging started last April 2011. this area was before full of plants and flowers. This is where our garage and terrace will stand soon.

The highlight for this year's home improvement is the terrace. I can't wait to sit on a coffee table that I am planning to buy. Since the garden terrace is huge enough, probably around 30 square meters, I am also planning to put rustic garden furniture in there.

I was asking hubby if everything will be finished before my birthday comes in August. If not, it is still fine for me. Thanks to hubby for all the patience and diligence in working on it.

The Beauty of Winter Season

Some people might not see the beauty of winter season. Some might see it. If you have to ask me, I always see beauty in any season of the year so as winter time. Here is a picture taken somewhere in Bayern, Germany this month.

Click the logo to join and see Scenic Sunday photos around the world! Thanks to The Holley Herald for hosting this beautiful meme! Have a great day to all!
Feel free to visit WW site to join and to see more photos. Thanks to the Author of this wonderful meme. Happy Wordless Wednesday everyday!

Skywatching Inside The Plane

Imagine watching the sky around 30,000 feet above the sea level? This is it! This was taken during my vacation. That is also the reason why I was away for some time was not able to participate in memes. I am back again and slowly joining the memes I love.
Click the logo, feel free to join, share and watch the beauty of the skies from all over the world. Thanks to SWF Team for this wonderful meme! Have a fun-filled Friday!

Lovely Flower Arrangement

I am trying to remember where did I took this picture. Now I know it. It was taken in one of the flowers shops in Trier, Germany. I love it so I took a picture of it.

Skywatcher Starting Today

This site is finally joining Skywatch Friday for the first time. We believed that sky is a part of nature and sharing its beauty to the world is worthwhile doing! Thanks to the Skywatch Team Klaus, Sandy,Ivar,Wren, Fishing Guy and Louise for this beautiful meme. Our first entry was taken as we drove to Burlengenfeld last time.
Click the logo to visit SWF.feel free to join, share and watch the different skies from all over the world. Have fun!

Time To Sprinkle Water in the Soccer Field

We happened to pass by at the soccer field one day. It was summer time and the weather was quite hot. The maintenance guy was sprinkling water to the grasses in the field. here is the photo we got for WW entry!

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MYM- The Wild Flowers and the Butterfly

Did you just see the small yellow wild flowers and the yellow butterfly. We don't know how many people appreciate this beauty of nature. We took this photo as we went walking around in our beautiful place. lovely and amazing beauty of nature!

Click the logo to visit the blog. Feel free to join this wonderful meme especially if you love yellow. Thanks to the Author Drowsey Monkey for hosting this beautiful meme. Happy Mellow Yellow Monday!

White Flowers

Any idea about the name of this white flower? I would gladly accept your suggestions especially from the experts. Thanks and take care folks!

You can visit the site. Feel free to join and see the beauty of flowers from all over the world. Special appreciation to Luiz and TF company for this very wonderful meme.

Watery Wednesday #1

Hello everyrone! A body of water is considered as nature. Taking for example lakes, oceans, rivers or maybe a canal. These can be a great form of nature and water is one of the greatest elements that human being need everyday. We hope that we begin to take care of this kind of nature, the water around us.

This blog is joining for the first time Watery Wednesday meme to show the beauty of water that we see around. We rock and try get watery every Wednesday! cheers! here is our first entry, the river that flows near our place.

Click the logo to join and see beauty of different waters around the world! Thanks to 2SweetnSaxy for hosting this beautiful meme! Happy Watery Wednesday!

Kalanchoe blossfeldiana Flowers

I got here a very beautiful pink Kalanchoe blossfeldiana . I took this photo in a garden center. We used to have some inside our house but due to some reasons, it slowly died. There were insects that attacked them and they slowly died. Below are some information about this flower.

Kalanchoe, also written Kalanchöe or Kalanchoë , is a genus of about 125 species of tropical, succulent flowering plants in the Family Crassulaceae, mainly native to the Old World but with a few species now growing wild in the New World following introduction.

Most are shrubs or perennial herbaceous plants, but a few are annual or biennial. The largest, Kalanchoe beharensis from Madagascar, can reach 6 m tall, but most species are less than 1 m tall.

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Saxifragales
Family: Crassulaceae
Genus: Kalanchoe

Bunch of Roses in Our Garden

The King of Summer Flowers is here! These are the bunch of roses taken recently in our garden! just sharing this photo for you to see the beauty of nature around us!

copyright photo of the Authors of this site

Lavender Colored Flowers and the Butterfly

There a lot of flowers we see around everytime we go walking! One day as we went walking, we found these lavender colored flowers. It has a visitor, this beautiful creature called butterfly. Isn't this a real beauty of nature? have fun viewing and have a great day! appreciate if you could share the name of these wild flowers! thanks in advance!

copyright photo by the Authors of this site

Glamorous Phalaenopsis Orchid

A kind of orchid that I always love, the Phalaenopsis. Another photo we took at the garden center. We already have two colours of this kind of orchids at home. We wish to share it once the photos are already uploaded. This kind of orchid is one of the most popular in its kind. Sometimes we wonder how these beautiful creature came into existence..or probably the law of nature created it. But we believed that there is someone who is in charge of creating it, no other than the Creator of the Universe. have fun viewing this glamorous creature!

Scientific classification:

Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Vandeae
Subtribe: Aeridinae
Alliance: Phalaenopsis
Blume
Genus: Phalaenopsis

I was surprised reading in the wikipedia that most of the Medinilla plants are endemic in the Philippines. These are lovely flowers which we also had before in our garden. here is a photo of Medinilla and a little information about it from wikipedia.

Medinilla is a genus of about 150 species of flowering plants in the family Melastomataceae, native to tropical regions of the Old World from Africa (two species) east through Madagascar (about 70 species) and southern Asia to the western Pacific Ocean islands. The genus was named after J. de Medinilla, governor of the Mariana Islands in 1820.

They are evergreen shrubs or lianas. The leaves are opposite or whorled, or alternate in some species. The flowers are white or pink, produced in large panicles.

Medinilla magnifica is a popular ornamental plant endemic to Luzon, one of the main islands in the Philippines.

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Myrtales
Family: Melastomataceae
Genus: Medinilla

Beautiful Petunia Flowers

Isn't this a blue violet color? No matter what we still love these flowers and we have some in our garden. I just research online about these flowers and I found out its categories below. Thanks to the experts of wikipedia for sharing it.

"CATEGORIES OF PETUNIA

Grandiflora

This type of petunias has the largest flowers, up to 4 inches in diameter. Of all the petunias these have the widest variety of forms and colors but are the most likely to be damaged by heavy rain. There are four types of grandiflora and they are classified by their colors, namely, ‘Daddy Series’ (shades of pink and purple), ‘Merlin Blue Morn’ (blue and white), ‘Supercascade Series’ (many colors) and ‘Ultra Series’ (many colors including bicolor).

Spreading

Spreading petunias (sometimes called groundcover) are characterized by their low height (usually about six inches), but a large spread (about three to four feet). They will cover a large area provided they have adequate water and fertilization. ‘Purple Wave’ was the first introduced cultivar of spreading petunias and grows to a height of 4 inches. ‘Tidal Wave’ is another spreading type of petunia, but is much taller (between sixteen and twenty two inches). ‘Opera Supreme’ is a cultivar with large flowers.

Mulitflora

Multiflora, when compared to grandiflora are half the size, 2 inches in diameter, they are not easily damaged in heavy rain and can tolerate more sun. Multiflora petunias cultivars include: 'Carpet Series' (many colors), 'Surfinia Series' (pink, blue, purple and white), and 'Wave Series' (pink, coral and purple). These spread quickly and are ideal for hanging baskets.

Milliflora

Milliflora are the smallest of the petunias and about 1 inch across. These are prettiest when mixed with other plants in containers, along garden beds, and edges. Milliflora are available in 'Fantasy Series' (red, purple, pink) and are the easiest to find. 'Supertunia Mini Series' (blue, pink, lilac, purple and white)are also available in the milliflora catagory. They tolerate harsh weather better when compared to grandifloras and multifloras.

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Solanales
Family: Solanaceae
Genus: Petunia

Beautiful Orange Flowers

Me and my wife had a sightseeing last weekend. One of the place we visited was the Garden of Willibald Castle in Eichstaett, a city in Bavaria, Germany. It was an amazing garden full of lovely flowers and plants. I took this photo of a beautiful orange flowers below. Any idea about its name. Thanks in advance for the information.

Flowers in Landesgartenschau in Neumarkt

Me and my wife visited yesterday the Landesgartenschau or City Garden in Neumarkt. We had fun going around while taking pictures of the different flowers, bushes and trees and at the same time enjoying the scenery of nature. It was a very beautiful day. We have a blue violet flower here. We need you help to indentify this. We are not sure if this is called Syringa or Flieder Blumen in German. any idea out there?..Thanks in advance!
Thanks to Gracieanne for sharing the name of this flower..It is called Lilac or Flieder in German. Tried to visit you Gracieanne but it seems that you profile is private.