Beautiful chequered Lime Butterfly (Papilio demoleus)
Papilio demoleus malayanus (Lime Butterfly) -
A relatively large butterfly with wingspan about 8-9cm that is quite a frequent visitor to our front yard garden. It is to be found hovering around foliage and flowering bushes, quite happy to remain still for sometime but take a quick flight whenever I approach too close for a [...]
March 2008 in our garden!
The garden month of March has been quite eventful. With a sunny and hot season, and some rainy days especially during the Holy Week leading to Easter Sunday, these sun-loving flowering plants simply love it and dance happily in our tropical garden.
The fabulous bushes of the Mussaenda cultivars, Mussaenda philippica aurorae and Mussaenda erythrophylla ‘Ashanti [...]
Photoshop tutorial – Create simple photo borders/frames (Part 3)
This is Part 3 of the Photoshop tutorial series on how to create simple photo borders or frames. View previous tutorials: Part 1 and Part 2, if you’re interested.
Here’s presenting another very simple and quick way to spice up your digital photos or images, by using Photoshop CS2 to add borders.
HAPPY EASTER 2008!
Just felt that the image of the Dwarf Crown of Thorns (Euphorbia milii) growing in our garden most appropriate for an Easter greeting card.
Besides, offering a connection to Good Friday (where Jesus wore a crown of thorns during His crucifixion), I find the tiny buds, the vibrant green and red, perfectly depicting new [...]
Flesh Fly (Sarcophaga spp.) is quite a beauty!
Sarcophaga spp. (Flesh Fly) -
What a gorgeous insect this fly can appear to be!
It flew right into our courtyard and landed with ease on the leaf of Dieffenbachia Amoena ‘Tropic Snow’ as I was checking for mealy bugs that are rampant on some of our foliage plants. How wonderful to be able to capture some [...]
Tropical Wildlife Photo Gallery
Showcasing pictures of all the wildlife and living organisms of the animal kingdom, especially insects, that abounds in our tropical garden in Malaysia, one time or another, that we have the pleasure of capturing. Absolutely fascinating!
These nature images are compiled in this photo gallery to give you an overview of what’s available in our website, [...]
Trithemis aurora, a crimson-pink dragonfly
Trithemis aurora (Crimson or Dawn Dropwing)
Wow! I just couldn’t believe my eyes! What amazing colors this captivating dragonfly displayed! I am so delighted that it stayed almost still for about 20 minutes on the Crossandra undulifolia flowering spike. Haha, long enough for me to get over the initial fumbling with my point and shoot camera [...]
How Great Thou Art, O God!
Today is Passion Sunday or Palm Sunday. During the Eucharistic Celebration Mass, a visiting Priest to our parish called us, children of God, to focus on Jesus as we begin the Holy Week, leading to Holy Thursday and Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday.
And, as I ponder on Christ’s Passion on the cross and [...]
A-Z Tropical Plants Database
Our website is continually updated with articles on tropical plants and hopefully will be voluminous over time as we persevere to add more for your enjoyment and enrichment, and ours too. We have compiled them into a plant encyclopedia or database, so that targeting each named plant therein will link to its related plant details, [...]
Bauhinia kockiana with spectacular blooms all year round!
When Bauhinia Kockiana blooms, which it does year round in our tropical climate, it’s absolutely a sight to behold
