2012 Oct - Our little garden

Kenny, Kenny, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?
With Kenny as the water boy
And mommy and her toys ...
And pretty Ariel and
Shannon in the tow .....

I have always had a garden of some sorts in the balcony. It may sometimes contain only 1 pot but it's fortunes have (almost) mimicked my pregnancy cycles. OK, possibly in opposition to my pregnancy cycles. Abundant when I am Not pregnant and languishing through my first and second trimester and in the first few months of babyhood.
ANyway, to the present! I have always tended my little patch alone but lately I seem to have gotten a little water boy. OK, not that little since he's 10 but a budding gardener all the same. He wont's touch soil nor the spade but boy can he remember to water and spray. First thing in the morning and evening. And when the mood takes him, off he goes to spray the plants ......
So it's no wonder that my plants are thriving (sort of) under this overflowing care. Of note are the bromeliads - 1 a gift which have birthed 2 more pups and the other a CNY impulse buy which has finally (after 9 months) birthed a pup. I have tried to use unusual containers (see the snail shell and the bathing sponge) Am awaiting with baited breath to see if the pup in the sponge will survive.
I am still waiting for my desert rose to flower and my sunflowers to grow. the keembong is coming along. Perhaps it's all these seed grown plants that have attracted the attention of my little gardener. Or maybe it's the sight of the rosella fruit that had captured his imagination. The rosella plant, of course, fruited in the nursery and has yet to fruit in my balcony ...... one can only do so much.