The plants interstate move Part 2 – The Trees

I’ve been growing a few trees on my apartment balcony in the last 3-4 years and I brought them along with me interstate.

The Curry Tree was struggling really badly, to the point that all its leaves dropped.

To my delight, they grew new branches and new leaves within a few weeks.

It had even flowered.

First photo - the struggling Curry Tree, leaves drooping and eventually dropped; Second photo - newly emerged leaves; Third photo - Fresh new leaves, finally growing, and even flowering; I can’t wait for this to grow bigger so I can start using the leaves again.

The Dragonfruit Tree was fine, it’s like nothing happened to it. I just put them on the ground, and new stems are growing out of them.

  

First photo - Right after transplanting; Second photo - Taken a few weeks after transplant, new branches appeared. They’re a bit of a slow grower, don’t they?

The Bay Tree is I think still adjusting, as how the Curry Tree was, the Bay Tree dropped all of its leaves at one stage, but, look now, they’re doing great.

First Photo - Right after transplant, it dropped all its leaves after that; Second photo - Taken 4 months after, in Feb 2017, recovered, after quite a long period.

Just recently, in April, they actually have more leaves than when they were on the balcony.

I still have a lot of store bought dried bay leaves that I haven’t used up. So, I’ll let this grow a bit more before I start picking fresh bay leaves.

The new kids on the block

We bought new fruit trees to be planted on these 3 half wine barrels.

There are Mandarin, Pomegranate, and Lemon Lime Trees from the Citrus Men.

They have been growing quite nicely in the last few months.

Mandarin Pipsqueak

Angel Red Pomegranate

Citrus Splitzer, Lemon and Lime Grafted

This will be our first time owning citrus trees, so we will have to research and learn how to maintain them.

We also managed to source from Green Harvest, Tamarind, Betel, Pandan, and Sambung Nyawa (Life Extender) Trees/Bushes.

All have been growing at a healthy rate.

 

First Photo - Young Tamarind; Second Photo - Betel

First Photo - Pandan; Second Photo - Sambung Nyawa (Life Extender)

The Tamarind is still in a pot, as I think they’re going to be quite a large tree when planted on the ground, so I still am not sure what the plan is in the future.

And we’ve been shopping at Daleys Nursery for more exotic plants. We got Mango, Chinese Keys and Javanese Ginger.

 Mango Tree, and I planted a few Takinogawa Burdock seeds around the Mango (from The Seed Collection)

Mix of Chinese Keys (Temu Kunci) and Javanese Ginger