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 In his talk, Kamal Meattle shows how an arrangement of three common houseplants – Areca Palm, Mother-in-law’s Tongue, and Money Plant – can result in measurably cleaner indoor air. While I find this talk interesting, I have quite a few questions about the numbers that the speaker gives. Kamal Meattle claims that “we . . . → Read More: How to Grow Your Own Fresh Air Although I have grown cacti for over two years, I haven’t yet had any cactus blooming beautiful flowers as the little one of Vickie, who took my Playful Tree Workshop earlier.
Vickie told me that all the cacti in her cactus garden are growing vigorously since the day she brought them home, and the red grafted cactus started blossoming a few weeks after as well. Ah… how much I wish mine would blossom like hers does!
This dragon is a signage of Hong Kong. Can you find the hidden word “香港” in the dragon?
Hippeastrum (aka Barbados Lily, 朱頂蘭 in Chinese) is often been mistaken as Amaryllis. Hippeastrum is a hardy plant. The flowers of Hippeastrum are red and pink and often striped with various amounts of white. Some hippeastrums have yellow, white, orange or pale green flowers. The flowers only appear for 2-3 weeks and they are unscented. With large rewards of big and beautiful flowers for little efforts, I always enjoy growing Hippeastrums. Continue reading Growing Hippeastrum Gardening could be fun and easy. Once we make friends with our plants, and get to know their likes and dislikes well, all we have to do is give them exactly what they want, and they will thrive beautifully. After overfertilizing my African violet – Frosted Denim – and had most of its flower buds burnt, I have learned my lesson well. Nowadays, I don’t fertilize it very often, maybe once every 2 weeks. In fact, I didn’t fertilize my African violet at all in January and February. And I always dilute the fertilizer solution to half the suggested dosage before use.
Continue reading Have Our Narcissus Blossoms at the Right Time
While orchids and carnivorous pitcher plants are among the park’s most famous plants, they are rare along the park’s most worn tourist trails. I could find a few small carnivorous pitcher plants while I was hiking Mount Kinabalu, but it was Arnold, my tour guide, who brought me to see this big pitcher plant 🙂
I have traveled so much in the past two months, to Cambodia as well as many places in Malaysia. Besides Kuala Lumper, Langkawi, Melaka, and Sabah, I also visited Putrajaya – the new Federal Government administrative center and future capital of Malaysia. Frankly, in this current stage, Putrajaya hasn’t yet been tourist friendly enough. The city is still under development, guided by the strategic vision 2015, which is to turn Putrajaya into a well managed, vibrant, prosperous city.
 After waiting for three months, I finally have a big bagful of Impatiens blossoms! Apparently, impatiens is very easy to maintain, and it grows well in shade. Since I planted the six young impatiens in November, I haven’t done much but only watered them every 5-10 days, depended on the weather. I would definitely . . . → Read More: My Impatiens in the Rubbish Bag are Blooming!
Since Narcissus flower blooms around lunar January, it is one of the most associated flowers with the Chinese New Year. The Chinese like to decorate their homes with this beautiful white Narcissus flower and wait in anticipation of its blossom, which symbolizes good luck and prosperity for the coming year. In addition, Narcissus has one of the sweetest fragrances! Continue reading Narcissus Blossom – An Important Symbol in Chinese New Year |
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