11-11-11

It's an ordinary Friday, but the date is so special that record number of couples got married today all over the world. May happiness be with them forever, or for 72 days! The day went like any other day, we had sun today, but we also had rain. It may not be as special as 11-11-11 to many people, the yellow Four O'Clock flowers in the garden looked ordinary too, but their presence helped brighten the look of the garden. And that's today's picture!

Colorful!

Right now in the garden, we flowers blooming all around. In one of the containers that we have, a few different colors of Four O'Clock are showing off. With lots of sunshine and plenty of rain, they seem to be growing very healthily.

The Odd One Out...

These are flowers from the same plant, the flowers of which are mostly white with some pink spots and some tinges of pink. Today we had a complete bright pink one out in force. It definitely caught my eyes. I find it interesting that this sort of thing takes place, it's refreshing and breaks down the monotonous life. IMHO.

My Fifth!

I have gotten the pink ones, as well as the yellow, white, and pink-tinged white and just recently my orange Four O'Clock flowers have started blossoming. That's my fifth colors and I am not done yet. I am aware of more colors out there and I am hoping to come across some broken and multi-colored flowers. I might look around for some in case they are available here. If not, I possibly want to order online.

With Pink Stripe

We found our first white Four O'Clock with pink stripe this morning. Lovely!

Getting The White

We had our first white Four O'Clock flower blossomed this morning. It was a thrill as always, for me, to see the first one. A special one. I am sure more will be coming out son too...

The First Yellow

A few weeks back, we got some Four O'clock seeds. The caddy that gave the seeds to DH have separated them nicely in four marked bags. We have gotten yellow, white, orange and a combination of red and white. I planted some and most of them grew. Just today, we have our first yellow flower. Nice.

Four O'Clock

DH got 10 seeds of Mirabilis Jalapa (Four O'Clock) from his caddy sometime ago early in January. I can't possibly imagine how playing golf and carrying the gold clubs ended up with 10 seeds of a plant. That does not matter anyway.

The seeds are large, so it was not hard to plant. I used to have this in the house where I grew up and just took it for granted that they were there. By looking at the seeds, I knew what they are. So there I was, planting them because DH wanted them to be planted. I was not hopeful that they would grow. I was wrong. Seven of them grew and they grew really well. They produce lovely flowers daily and they are so easy to look after. So far I only have the pink ones, but I hope to get the white and yellow ones too. Anybody?