Sep 5, 2008

Bay leaves

In Wellington botanical garden (NZ), bay leaves grow into bushes at the herbs garden:)
Wed's Worldfarm-excursion, little bay leaves plants from Holland are for sale at $18 each. That's expensive for a small herbs... but i simply couldn't resist. So it was acquired!

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

heehee i see you have repotted it very fast!

Savvy Mummy said...

Can bay grow well in spore climate too?

Rummi, the gardener. said...

hi savvymummy, after a short period of stunt growth (probaly time to acclimitize), tis bay (fr holland) is growing very well in spore's weather.

was 20cm plant in this foto when i bought it... now a happy 1metre tall and growing bay :)

Savvy Mummy said...

Hi..is absolutely cool that you can grow so much in your flat...my flat did not have a nice balcony like yours and anyway not much sunlight. Our family has migrated to Melbourne two years back. It is only last winter that I started my gardening. Following your blog cos I love herbs & spices! :)

Rummi, the gardener. said...

hi savvymummy,

here's a not-so-clear pic of the bay on the right of foto. wat u can see on the foto are the shorter stems inside the balcony, the taller stems are all sun-tanning outside thru the gap between the wall and perforated-metal.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dzDAJOB3-ao/SZlr-358w6I/AAAAAAAAAus/HOkxhc6kHlc/s1600-h/P1020770.JPG

i'll take a better shot for u in the next posting ;)

Rummi, the gardener. said...

... gardening in four seasons melbourne is a lot more challenging than spore. wOOOw ;)

the good thing is tat u grow a much larger varoeties of edibles. im green with envies now, hehe. looking forward to ur great-harvest-postings !