green thumb

Being here in the land down under... there are things that i learned to appreciate just now which i took for granted back in manila... 

And what was one of it?.... it was GARDENING.... yes, gardening.... you read it right... the process where you take care of your residential domesticated plants....

 

Seems easy right? Dang no... big NO!!!!.... if it was easy like the dig-plant-cultivate-water cycle, then i would not be writing this blog to complain, hahaha!... seems like i now found my reason why i am writing this blog... just to complain, yes complain!...

when my brother bought this beautiful corner house last July, everyone were in high spirits... all of our relatives here were happy that we finally found a place to settle in, but with this cheerful event comes a dire caution... we were warned that the maintenance of the house would be tedious.... especially Tito Jun, he specifically said that one thing he is worried that we would find it hard to maintain was the garden...

well, when i imagined gardening, it was like in the opening scene of desperate housewives where everyone is making gardening seems so easy in wisteria lane... where bree would trim her plants, susan would water her flowers, lynette would play with her kids in the treehouse and gab would watch his gardener with lust while he mows her garden (ahhh, i would say i need to cut the last part out, it seems too erotic)....

and yes, that is what i felt about gardening before we moved in, i am so excited to play the role of the boy who loves gardening...  and make our neighbours jealous with mah astonishing garden... well that time mah imagination was at no limits on how i will make the 600sq m property of mah brother the envy of the neighbourhood...

but  all was easily said than done... it was not an easy task.... it took me only just one month, that mah vivid dream of a beautiful garden is still far from reality... i did not anticipate all the problems at hand... and to top it all, the land down under weather is making it worse too... 

i guess, i just now realized that having mah dream garden will be a challenge... and that it will take quite some time to turn this dream into a reality... after 6mons, all that we accomplished are just two plant boxes which were under poor maintenance because of lack of garden tools (without these, i will not able to accomplish different gardening task)...

how i wish, i listened to my grand mom when she taught me gardening lessons way back then... or how i wish my dad is here with us always to help me with mah gardening task...

i know, i’ll find a way somehow to turn this bare real estate into a prime location soon... all i just need is more time.... more help.... and more patience.... i just know that i still have a green thumb here in me somewhere.... :-)


credits: except for the first and third photos, all photos are from yahoo.com