Blooming roses...

They are blooming great...
More and more everyday....
They smell nice too...
I feel like sitting next to the plant all day long.
But...of course I can't do that.
It's someone's house...someone I don't know at all....haha

I captured them every time I passed by...
So here are the pictures...
You can see how rapidly the bloom...

25/6/2015

2/6/2015

3/6/2015

8/6/2015

There are plenty more at other houses too.
With weird colours that I can't even name them.
I will try to capture them...for sure!
Bye now!

My Neighbour's Roses

 I wish I could have something like this in my backyard!!!


The roses are bigger than the size of my palm.
They smell nice too, seriously!


I can't wait to see these roses next week.
I am sure they will bloom beautifully.

Well, actually I have a rose plant in my backyard.
It is still young to have flowers.
It is at the corner, on your left.
You can barely see it because it is indeed too small...haha.

Bye now!

Garden Slugs and Snails

Garden slugs and snails are torturous...
They are like everywhere....
creeping actively at nights
eating all our small plants and vegetables.

This is a slug I found in my garden this morning.

and this is Mr.Snail

These are their cousins....

Do you still remember my flower bed?
The picture below was taken last month. 

 See what happened after a few days.
Only two to three days, the flowers gone.
After that, the snails and slugs
started to enjoy the leaves too.

One week later, the leaves were all gone.
They ate all my French Marigold leaves.

Thank God that they didn't touch the Lavender and Red Begonia.
 

Well, there are actually many ways to kill slugs.

1) Salt is the best when you want to kill slugs, but it is also hazardous to grow plants. So, we must not sprinkle the salt near our plants. Salt is also famous in killing weeds. I've tried many times and it works wonderfully well.

2) Other than using salt, slug repellent beads are effective if you sprinkle them regularly near your plants. I am not sure whether it really kills slugs.

3) The other solution is to use instant coffee powder. I've recently read an article that studies show that slugs hate caffeine. So simply sprinkle coffee powder (which of course contains caffeine) around our plants. I have tried but I am not sure whether this method is really effective because we don't know how much coffee powder is enough.

So, good luck with your garden slugs and snails!!!

Cleaning the overgrown backyard

People use their spare time differently.
I choose to use my spare time with the nature.
It can ease my pain (caused by thinking too much..haha).
It can release my stress....after a tiring day working on my thesis.
It is like entering a different world of green
where it is only me and nature.

I don't use grass mower because it will be so tedious.
It stays in the shed.
I usually use a pair of hedge shears to cut the grass instead.
It was bought weeks ago for only GBP5.00.



Next time, I will turn it into a garden.

Flower bedding

To celebrate this Spring, it's time to make a few changes.
Well, I started with flower bedding
just right next to the door to enter my house.


I bought some flower plants for flower bedding.
French Marigold, Wild Lavender and Red Begonia

Well, at least, it is better than before.
Now, with this, the house looks like a human is its owner.

Chocolate tart cake

This type of chocolate tart cake is extremely easy to make.
So I made two cakes just now.



STEPS:

Chop one dark chocolate bar (200gm) into tiny pieces.

Chop some of raspberry white chocolate bar into tiny pieces.
This is optional.


Pour 300ml cream into a big mug.
Heat it in a microwave oven for 1 minute.

Then, pour the hot cream onto the chopped chocolate.
Let it rest for 5 minutes, before you can whisk it.

Whisk the mixture well until it becomes chocolate ganache.
This recipe is made to fill two flan cases.

After that, prepare the flan base.
"Flan" or "tart" means an open pastry case which you can fill anything in.
You can call it flan case or tart base or tart case...whatever you like!
They are all the same thing.

This is a sponge flan base.
Well, for this one, its texture is exactly like a sponge cake.
The size is as big as a dinner plate.

Don't worry! Simply buy it at any supermarkets.
Well, you can also make your own biscuit flan base instead,
if you are hardworking enough.

Spread some strawberry jam on top, if you want.
This is optional.

Fill the flan case with the chocolate ganache while it is still warm.

Cut each strawberry into half.

Decorate the cake as you please.

Lastly, let it rest in your fridge for a couple of hours before you can serve it.

 Ready to serve!!!!

Enjoy!

Caricature for a friend #1

Something to do whenever I'm bored...