Sizzling Pink Loropetalum, our garden star in September!
Wow! A great garden dazzler indeed, with captivating sizzling pink fringe flowers!
Loropetalum chinense var. rubrum ‘Sizzling Pink’ or Pink Chinese Witch Hazel as it is commonly named, has never failed to reward us with abundant flowers whenever its sprawling branches are heavily trimmed to keep it neat and tidy.
We did exactly that, a severe [...]
Beautiful wings of Christia vespertilionis
Christia vespertilionis (Mariposa, Red Butterfly Wing)
Another fabulous plant to add to one’s garden.
Our first Christia vespertilionis seedling arrived in our garden in December 2004 and its descendants are still scattering their seeds all over our garden till today, like the pretty Torenia fournieri!
How wonderful!…and for only a couple of Malaysian Ringgit, mind you! [...]
Photoshop Tutorial – Create an illusion of a picture within a picture
Sometimes, I’d like to bring more focus to the main subject or object in my photo…don’t you? One of the ways to do this is to create an illusion, of course! Basically, it is creating the appearance of a smaller cropped version of the photo within its larger self, using the vector shape, creating a [...]
Photoshop tutorial – Create Easy 3-D Box Picture Frames
There are so many ways to enhance our images. One of my favorite ways is to add a border or frame and it can be done in such creative ways. Absolutely exciting, challenging and rewarding as I experiment with the many ways available in Photoshop CS2. These last few days, while playing around with just [...]
