Yesterday, while strolling in the Singapore Garden Festival, a thunderbolt striked me on my inspiration-cap. And the new interest sparked off from there : VA-NI-LA ! I shall start collecting vanilla-orchids, those plants where vanilla-pods are harvested, cured and used as spices.
It doesn't matter how clueless I am on vanilla-growing. There wasn't much entry on the most popular gardening forum in Singapore. Vanilla-growers must have been hidding their secret collections! Psst, if you have one, share your pics with me :)
Jul 20, 2010
On the 4-year mark comes a revolution !
'Looking back' is the general mood on our little-island with the coming National Day celebration. As Singapore looks back 45-years to the birth of a nation, I nostalgically browsed through my own blog, all the way back to the new-born entry 4years ago, on 4Sep'2007.
Fondly recalled how an apetite for heirloom tomatoes sparked off a new hobby in gardening; which later fireworked into a large collection of complementing edibles, ranging from herbs to fruiting/vegetables, both temperate and tropical. I had great fun, on top of the sweat and misery of failing crops, pests and bad weather.
Approaching the 4-year mark, I feel like a revolution! Not just a superficial makeover to the garden. But a major change- new directions, new working models, new partners.
So the blog took on a new name, 'We Purr As We Grow', inspired by the new purring-partner on this blog. A delighted gardener is just like a delighted cat. We toil and sweat, then sit back and admired our completed task, still heavy in our breathing, and sounding just like a purring-cat !
Bye to 'We Eat So We Grow'. Now 'We Purr As We Grow' :)
Fondly recalled how an apetite for heirloom tomatoes sparked off a new hobby in gardening; which later fireworked into a large collection of complementing edibles, ranging from herbs to fruiting/vegetables, both temperate and tropical. I had great fun, on top of the sweat and misery of failing crops, pests and bad weather.
Approaching the 4-year mark, I feel like a revolution! Not just a superficial makeover to the garden. But a major change- new directions, new working models, new partners.
So the blog took on a new name, 'We Purr As We Grow', inspired by the new purring-partner on this blog. A delighted gardener is just like a delighted cat. We toil and sweat, then sit back and admired our completed task, still heavy in our breathing, and sounding just like a purring-cat !
Bye to 'We Eat So We Grow'. Now 'We Purr As We Grow' :)
Feb 5, 2010
The Sun. They love; I dun; she does sometimes.
The Sun is back. Was yesterday, being the first day of spring on the chinese farmer's calender.
The dinner-plate hibiscus and sunset hibiscus (she's the color of my nonya-kebaya) love it and bloomed lavishly...
I frown with the heat... 
While kimi enjoys the sun-basking in the morning...
...then she naps on the cool pebbles in the early afternoon... 
... and hides in my room while I work hard at the study at mid-day.
Kimi follows me like a shadow as I move around the flat. So her chosen napping-spots must strategically allow her to monitor my movement while she's napping... Like the exit from the study in the pic.
Cats! LOL.
The dinner-plate hibiscus and sunset hibiscus (she's the color of my nonya-kebaya) love it and bloomed lavishly...
I frown with the heat... 
While kimi enjoys the sun-basking in the morning...
...then she naps on the cool pebbles in the early afternoon... 
... and hides in my room while I work hard at the study at mid-day. 
Kimi follows me like a shadow as I move around the flat. So her chosen napping-spots must strategically allow her to monitor my movement while she's napping... Like the exit from the study in the pic. Cats! LOL.
Feb 1, 2010
Rosy CNY & Valentine's day.
Two years of continously viewing pictures of well-kept roses by gardeners on the forum haven't tempted me a drop to grow one. Until...
Its half a month down to Chinese New Year, nurseries are burping CNY-plants! I walked all the nurseries along Kovan and Thomsom, hunting for Jasmine plants (to replace my husband's aged/vigourless 'gals'). Non in sight. Jasmine flowers are white, they do not fit into the festive color codes for CNY.
Then 2 rosy-smiles beamed my way while I was manouvering the narrow path lined with giant mandarin-orange plants. I succumbed.
So here we get a new rosy entrance/exit. And happy valentine's day :)
Its half a month down to Chinese New Year, nurseries are burping CNY-plants! I walked all the nurseries along Kovan and Thomsom, hunting for Jasmine plants (to replace my husband's aged/vigourless 'gals'). Non in sight. Jasmine flowers are white, they do not fit into the festive color codes for CNY.
Then 2 rosy-smiles beamed my way while I was manouvering the narrow path lined with giant mandarin-orange plants. I succumbed.
So here we get a new rosy entrance/exit. And happy valentine's day :)
Jan 28, 2010
Moonflowers are elegant ladies.
One day, the vines will go into full blooms, and we'll have a balcony-railing dancing with white-ladies :)
Blue attractions - Bunga Telang.
I like blue flowers:) They draw me into the realm of a calm blue ocean. And Bunga Telang flowers are the 'blue-est' I can get on this tropical island.
Here's the flowers in single-petalled form,
and double-petal form.
The plants grows easily, with little maintenance. Let them indulge in abundance of sunshine, and they'll be bloom their heads away. That delighted Kimi-the-cat. She has taken to eating the blue flowers (one big chomp) and leaves!
Here's the flowers in single-petalled form,
and double-petal form.
The plants grows easily, with little maintenance. Let them indulge in abundance of sunshine, and they'll be bloom their heads away. That delighted Kimi-the-cat. She has taken to eating the blue flowers (one big chomp) and leaves!
Jan 1, 2010
Inspiration 2010- It all starts with an ending.
End old habits, start new habits...
End bad practices, start good practices...
Wrap up outstanding work, start new schedules...
Abandon redundant roles, adopt new roles...
Ditch rotten relationships, pick up fresh relationships...
Forgive and forget, write new memories...
...blah blah blah... Tis the new year theme:)
End bad practices, start good practices...
Wrap up outstanding work, start new schedules...
Abandon redundant roles, adopt new roles...
Ditch rotten relationships, pick up fresh relationships...
Forgive and forget, write new memories...
...blah blah blah... Tis the new year theme:)
Majoram flowers.
The majorams flowered on the last day of 2009:)
Little white flowers, so tiny that I would have missed it if I haven't been putting my nose on the plants (something tat I enjoy very much given the addictive fragrance of majoram).
Little white flowers, so tiny that I would have missed it if I haven't been putting my nose on the plants (something tat I enjoy very much given the addictive fragrance of majoram).
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