the so-called minah bunga

guess what???!!! i forgot to water my plant for 5 days!!!! hahahaaa..... it was since i sit for Pathology oral and practical exam 5 days ago! i guess the disappointment that i get from those exams made me suffer from selective amnesia towards my pokok bunga. hahaha. definitely something i'm not proud of laa.. and guess how i suddenly remembered about my plant? when i opened blogger dashboard and decided to write something, this thought came across my mind-why not write about my pokok bunga! but then i remembered that i haven't watered them since last exam.. huhu. i thought my pokok bunga would died kering kontang because i didn't give them water for nearly a week. i rushed out to the living room and opened the door to the balcony. and there lies my little sweetheart, healthier and greener than the last time i saw them! i was shocked, and relieved that my pokok bunga haven't died yet! how come.........

after all, i am very happy that my plant still hidup malah tumbuh stems baru dgn bahagianya. you know lah the weather in here.. i assumed my plant had turned all yellow already.. can you see those died stems lying on the balcony floor? that was how the plant look like last time i checked. can you compare with those new stems growing healthily in the flower pot? ini amat menggembirakan saya kerana saban hari bila saya menyiram pokok ini tidak lama dahulu, i really thought they would die from the freakin hot weather here in Egypt ni. nampak tak tong di belakang pasu tu? that is the tong that i place my flower pot during springtime. when the season changed into summer, the weather is too hot and dry i decided to move the plant on the balcony floor instead to give it some shelter from the luminous sunlight. ignore the dirty balcony floor tu ya.. we didn't have time to clean it, lagipun kat sini memang kuat berdebu apatah lagi di luar rumah. and i don't know how the dried, dead stems ended up on the floor. maybe di tiup angin or terkena daun pintu bahagian luar..

this was when they are still at the nursery. one pot for LE10

i put it on the tong when i get home before moving them outside.

this picture was taken during springtime

you can see in above picture that the plant actually consists of two kinds of flowers. not just one. however, their leaves and buds are similar. i didn't know this until the flowers bloomed. one flower i'm sure it comes from the family of carnation/dianthus and the other on the top is one of the carnation variety too, but i did not managed to find similar pictures on the net. but i think it is a sub species of dianthus too. i picked them out of many other pots while in the nursery because i was curious how the flowers going to look like because the leaves didn't look like typical flowering plants. they look like grass instead. it turns out to be carnations that were blooming. did you notice lots of buds coming out of the stems? that was when spring, they produced flowers actively during summer of course, but the production of flowers decrease during summer (why it sounds like factory report here...). now that they becomes greener and healthier than before, i hope new flowers will bloom again, decorating the new, tall stems. and maybe next time if my plant refused to give out flowers, or giving out the hint of dying in spite of watering them religiously everyday, i should restrain myself from giving them water so they will learn the lesson. hehe. i guess plants in Egypt are tough like it's people too.. ;)