Showing posts with label Flowers and foliage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flowers and foliage. Show all posts

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.

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 :)

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!

Dec 4, 2009

Retro-parties for Portulacas-Gals.

These gals, they love to party, the 60s style. Look at their silk dresses!



Sep 8, 2009

The corridor evolved...

Then, it was bare. We lived with a naked corridor for half a year when we moved here.
Now, we rejoiced in the jolly entrances and exits to work everyday. Much skill and confidence were built up along this long journey, gathering up this neat little corridor-collection.

Pests attack our green-pets frequently. Strong wind had blown some down twice in the past. Blankets from above had flown down and broke a branch of the maple tree... yet, we are not dampened in our spirit.

Grow and flourish you will, kids!





Apr 1, 2009

Colors (1)

These fair ladies are cheerful additions at the door. They seem to enjoy the bright location (=no direct sun) very much, throwing out flowers continously since they came few weeks ago.

Orange & yellow dwarf Crossandras.

Balcony update

Our green-pets on the balcony are enjoying their lifes, generally.

Those perched on the low balcony wall get good wind and nice views of the communal garden downstairs.

The siverbeets especially, are enjoying their spa-bath while taking in the views out there.

Missy Picotees (the morning glories) climbed to get an even more advantages viewpoint.

Bay-sir grows himself up and out of the gap between the wall and railing.


All's good. The Hydroponic box of PakChoy (KY-early fr Known-You) was harvested a few rounds before being 'taken down'. Purple french beans are harvested too, and they continue to throw up flowers and new pods. New vegetable seeds are sown. Sweet basils grew up to 40cm tall, and upgraded to their own container. Ditto dills who stand in their own tub, perched on the low wall, looking out of the balcony.

... Except an unlucky chap, Bonsai-Shuimei, who's infected with black spots on the leaves. Skyfiery came visiting yesterday, smelled rat, and got diagnosis from Sixhunter that its probably black spot disease. Tat is a messy problem.

Poor handsome Shuimei got trimmed down brutally (ALL leaves n secondary branches gone), soil changed plus a root trim to downsize the root ball. He probably will take a long time to recover from tis brutal trim down. IF he survives :p

Today will be an April Fool's gardening day -making concoctions to spray down the plants from fungus-growth (in case of spread), and continue fixing the spider mites problem in the mint box.

Mar 6, 2009

''Your jasmines are blooming, Munmun!''

Well done your first pruning-job, MunMun.
The girl went into full-blooms :)

Mornings glories

It's Morning Glory Picotee, from Milkbone. They are just as pretty, in or out of bloom :)

Jan 13, 2009

Maple tree on a tropical island

Nursery-shopping bugs caught on waimun and i. We brouht back a maple tree tis time. LOL

Imagine a maple tree on a tropical island... hmm... is it ever going to survive, grow new leaves, turn red, and shed again next year ?!?! We dun koe.


Maple tree with cranberry-red leaves. Estimated height- 2metres tall.


Coleus simply look like colourful lettuces. And they will grow fine without direct sun. Perfect for tis location.


The make-over corridor looking and smelling great now :)

We self-imposed a ban on our visiting nurseries again for undefined period of time.

Jan 2, 2009

CNY plant is - Jasminum Sambac

If we collect enough of the flowers, maybe we'll get jasmine-perfumed home tis Chinese New Year ;)

Luv the pot stand. Luv the double-petals. Luv the stronger fragrance in the single-petal. Simply cant decide which i like more. He he.

Double-petals

Single-petal

Lovely pot stand

Sep 5, 2008

Mini-orchid bloomed again

This mini-orchid bloomed a second time, and tis time, the color is much deeper purple. hmm...

Jul 9, 2008

Mini orchids -new decor for ugly waterpipe

Once upon a time, i buy shoes and indulge in salmon-sashimi whenever i feel stressed out, depressed or generally moody...

nowadays, i just go nursery-shopping. LOL

here's 2 new pots of mini-orchids, hung on the waterpipe in the balcony. The decorated pipe turned out to be quite a pleasant decor style :)


May 29, 2008

Baby bamboo, 8cm tall, from Uncle Green-fingers

Maggie drove by to visit an old church-uncle. And he possess the legendary Green Fingers! Everything he touches will grow.

This little cup of cute baby-bamboos is a present from Uncle-green finger.

New acquisitions from tai-tai shopping trip

Monday was a half-day 'tai-tai' date with Maggie. OMG, she sure luv nursery-hopping!

Here's new acquisition from World Farm...

Phyllantrus paker, sitting on the corridor

Rosemary

Sawtooth coriander, in the the beans trough

Holy basil

May 13, 2008

AV is a purple chiffon dress

All ladies should have an African Violet in their garden. Like a purple chiffon dress in the wardrobe, for the evening when one ditches the little black dress for a feminine piece.

Apr 17, 2008

Prematured giant sunflower

She thought she's a daisy !

The seed-packet says 'Golden Crown Sunflower, grows up to 2 metres tall'... but tis baby bloomed at 80 cm tall. And she barely even looks developed.

Will certainly make Attempt#2. Soon. Shall wait for sunny May/Jun/July.

Apr 6, 2008

Morning glories seedlings, heavenly blue

Sowed 22Mar'08. Foto taken on 6Apr'08. Day-16.

These seeds germinated with no fuss. Just 'plug' into soil, keep moist, and they sprouted the next day.

The morning glories are temporarily residing on the balcony. Will be moved out onto the corridor once they start to climb the string-support. Their designated duties are to send Waimun off to work every morning;)