Another Garden Experiment - Update Spring 2013

Maybe you still remember the bush that has gotten replanted into ever smaller pots over the years?

This is what I wrote in the Autumn update.

I guess it's time for the Spring, nearly Summer update of this "Bonsai" bush experiment.

Although it was a very wet Winter and Spring, the bush did not drown fully or freeze to death outside.

A bit later than the other years it did get it's flowers too.

Only one twig, and a few leaves. The other branches do seem to be dried out and dead, before I had planted it into the white bucket.

Here some photos I took of it recently:

Lots of water covering the soil.
I remove it regularly, as I have not yet managed to make drainage holes into the bucket.

A closer shot of the flowering twig in the middle of the bush. 

And a close-up of some of the tiny leaves sprouting.

Hopefully, I can find a better place for this bush to grow at permanently very soon. The rest of the garden is in good shape; the palm trees, for which this bush had to move, survived the Winter too.

=) Happy gardening to you.

Another "Gardening" Experiment - Bush-Bonsai - Autumn Update

I had thought recently this experiment to have failed and the bush dead.

I was going to discard it. But then the cold weather set in and it was wet, too wet (and cold) for my taste to be playing in the dirt.

Today though, with warm sun and before the weather would change to final Autumn cold and wet for some longer time again, I was back in my garden mowing. By chance, I was on my knees and looked at the bush.

Dry brittle twigs nearly poking my eyes, when suddenly °.°

I see some tiny, fresh green leaves!!!

The bush is still alive!!! =))

So, of course, now even more than before, I will have to take this bucket Bonsai bush into a frost free area over winter --- 

AND 

find a new place for it to grow in (pot or nice spot in the garden where it can stay).

Lady's Mantle

It's a herb with tiny green / yellow flowers that gets used as tea from the parts above the ground to relieve monthly cramps and after menopause in women.
For more information on this go to:  Frauenmantel (Lady's mantle - The English wiki page is mainly list of of them with no photos).

I have one growing wild in my garden; didn't plant it but letting it grow in my grass. And it seems to be spreading as time passes.
Here two examples I found in the internet:
Alchemilla mollis
Alchemilla monticola
Both are close but are not quite the plant I have.

The specialty of mine is the "lotus" effect of the leaves. So nice photos. ;)

Here a photo of the full plant growing next to the palm tree:

Suddenly there were flowers over the leaves!

Same plant three days later! 

And a close up of the flowers:

Single flowers look more green with a tiny bit of yellow leaves.

As group they look yellow!

A new plant - but the grass needs cutting and it will get cut too :(

Some more smaller plants - those at the pedestal can stay!!