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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
Although members are restricted to cultivate plants other than bonsai trees in the bonsai workshop, Teacher Wong always keeps some flowering plants in the workshop for ornamental purposes. And now in the early winter, we have some big and beautiful Chrysanthemums with showy blossoms 😀 Continue reading Beautiful Chrysanthemums Have you ever bought a Spider Plant (aka Airplane Plant, botanical name: Chlorophytum comosum) that just never grows “baby spiders”, or runners, no matter how well you take care of it? Instead of questioning your method of watering or fertilizing your Spider Plant, may be first of all, you should examine your plant and check whether or not it really is a Spider Plant! Because instead of a Spider Plant, it could be a Bichetii Grass.
Bichetii Grass (aka False Lily Turf, Siam Lily, botanical name: Chlorophytum bichetii) is in the same genus as Spider Plant, a very common variegated form of Chlorophytum laxum. Continue reading Is It Really a Spider Plant? Or a Bichetii Grass? In early November, I mounted one of my baby Vanda orchid on a piece of draftwood and the other on a rock, before hanging both orchids on my balcony (see post: My Hanging Vandas). A month has passed. I have noticed that the root system of the Vanda orchid that is mounted on the driftwood seems stronger and more vigorous than the one that is mounted on the rock.
This Vanda orchid likes the driftwood so much that its roots keep drilling into every corner and cracks of draftwood 🙂 Last week, Teacher Wong, Gui, and I set up the greenhouse and planted over200 strawberry plants in containers.
In order to reuse the soil that was used for yellow-skin watermelons and cantaloupes in the greenhouse, Teacher Wong has adjusted the soil pH level, mixed in additional organic fertilizer, while leaving the soil heated under the sun in the greenhouse for several weeks.
These are the strawberry plants that we have planted in our greenhouse. I potted these strawberry plants around a month ago. My Episcia Ronnie (aka Flame Violet) is growing very well. It has grown many stolons, with some of them getting pretty long, and starting to tie up with one another. To prevent my Episica Ronnie from growing into a tangled mess of stolons, I knew I better change the container and repot the plant as soon as possible.
A hanging basket would be nice for trailing plants like Episcia, but I couldn’t find a suitable place in my house where I could hang the plant 🙁 While I was puzzling over the new container problem for my Episcia, I saw a cool bike/trolley looking raised planter when I was shopping one day. Yes! This could solve my problem I thought, and so I bought it right away. Continue reading Episcia Ronnie on Bike Zinnia Elegans is a gorgeous choice for gardens. Zinnia comes in a wide variety of colors, and its large, bright blooms really give a garden a sense of cheer. There are even varieties of zinnia that are as jumbo as three feet in height! Moreover, Zinnia Elegans can easily be grown from seeds. All these factors make Zinnia a very popular flower in gardens.
Collecting seeds of Zinnia Elegans is fairly easy. As the blooms fade, air dry the flowers by hanging them upside down.
(Left: Zinnia seeds that are not yet ripened Right: ripe Zinnia seeds) Continue reading Zinnia Elegans: Collecting and Saving Seeds |
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