51 Things in My Garden

(c) music-audionautix Jason Shaw
http://www.youtube.com/audionautix

51 memorable things found in my garden from spring till winter: birds, insects, people who adore them.

(in order of appearance)

1. My dead tree .. I couldn't chop it so I made it as flower basket stands.
2. Flower baskets: Petunia, impatient flowers, Swiss cheese plant (no, you can't eat it)
3. cake & tea with my lovely neighbour.
4. Passion fruit vine tree shaped as no. 8(RIP) grew in the dead tree-- flower basket stand
5. super funny clown on Andrew's bday
6. our first plastic pool
7. slide
8. kitchen toys (we play every spring)
9. grandparents came from Canada once every 3 years
10. My mom & hydrangea in flower baskets
11. shy/ sensitive plant (mimosa hamanta)
12. edible mushroom grew under the chair--it ended up as our lunch.
13. Dahlia (from baby - full bloom- with Andrew)
14. Cherry tomatoes.. grown from seeds..nyum very sweet
15. Grasshopper with Charlie
16. Beautiful flowers for my entrance..yeah show off ..haha
17. Lemons: A basket of lemons and one of the fruits is huge (with Charlie) (it could be the biggest lemon ever in HK)
18. Lavender--lavendula very lovely scent.
19. butterfly - First time Julie touched it
20. My yellow roses
21. bird nest in my banyan tree
22. wild bird ( released back to its nature after it got better.)
23. Bird House ( I actually bought several of them) ..just in case that bird came back. It did and stayed in my homemade nest.
24. Baby bird (it fell from the nest) and my kids played with it until it got bigger and stronger.
25. Andrew, the cute bee got caught by a flower..lol
26. Delphinium (grew by each kid-pink purple and red from bulb)
27. Orchids ( I replaced passion fruit vines with orchids )
28. The big Giant Snail ate most of my herbs
29. wasp nest (the wasp made my mom faint :O) so we had to remove it--scary
30. Strawberries grew from seeds
31. Butterfly flowers: Viola
32. Blue tounge skinks
33. Art Work with kids
34. My herb garden (the pink flower is tumeric flower)
35. Wood mushroom - Phaeolus schweinitsii(for chinese medicine, I didn't know how to use it so I just threw it away)
36. Musical frogs (they were playing piano, flute, , guitar, harp, accordion, and the conductor)
37. lovely impatients flowers and kids seasons after seasons
38. Wet umbrella. I tried to make artistic photo :P
39. Diet coke experiments but we failed
40. Impatients flowers in the water bowl by Julie
41. A Teddy & Charles .. Awww..he brought his teddy while watering the garden
42. Giant green tomato worms
43. Pitcher plants (it collects flies in its sack)
44. Gorgeous flowers & leafs:
Hisbiscus (double layer and single layer), Crinsanthemum & daisies & Lilies grew from bulb stage, Bougenvilla
45. My starling was taking a bath
46. Insects we found in the garden: Praying Mantis & Moth -(We took care of the moth snce the caterpillar stage).
47. Giant bubbles
48. Wild orchid grew in between the pines & egg plants
49. Kids in costume: I made the pink wings & Lovely Fairies (Elise and Julie) & Andrew the Pumpkin (I made the pumpkin clothes)
50. Andrew is playing bubbles with his best friend: Jarred
51. Max the dog (he got punished and sent to stay outside)

I grew all of those flowers and fruits. I love making flower baskets with the kids.

(c) music-audionautix Jason Shaw

(Clips are taken from spring -winter..our coldest winter in HK is 6-10 C)

Thanks for watching this
Anne