Rats storming our garden, February 2009
Very stressful month in our tropical garden, this February!
Not that our plants aren’t doing fine. It is just that we are fighting a losing battle with the disgusting rats that visit our garden. Previous years, their unwelcome entries were infrequent but got worser since the last year and is becoming even more rampant of late, [...]
Sun-loving Tecoma capensis (Cape Honeysuckle)
Tecoma capensis (Cape Honeysuckle)
Podranea ricasoliana with showy pink trusses
Podranea ricasoliana (Pink Trumpet Vine, Port St Johns Creeper)
A gorgeous vine or shrub that is decorated with trusses of attractive pink trumpet-shaped flowers all year round in warmer tropics, and from late summer to fall in colder regions.
We had a potted Pink Trumpet Vine, growing at our backyard for more than 2 years from mid [...]
Cryptanthus bivittatus, a fascinating star-shaped bromeliad
Cryptanthus bivittatus (Earth Star, Starfish Plant)
This attractive cultivar ‘Ruby’ of the species C. bivittatus as pictured on the right, were just tiny tots in a 3-inch plastic pot when they joined our garden family in early 2006.
Their unique star-like shape that resembles a starfish and the fabulous stripy colors of their variegated foliage fascinated and [...]
Bright sunny flowers of Allamanda cathartica
Allamanda cathartica (Yellow Allamanda, Golden Trumpet, Buttercup Flower)
Bright, sunny and cheerful!
That’s how the showy trumpet-shaped flowers of Allamanda cathartica adorn its bush or vine, bountiful in terminal cymes and shining radiantly in rich yellow.
An outstanding ornamental shrub that is ever-blooming, grows easily and requires minimal care.
No gardening in January 2009!
Sometimes it is so difficult to do the needful!
I had to force myself to sit through the whole month of January not doing any gardening at all! In fact, it began as early as late December last year when I decided to undergo a cataract surgery for my right eye which was set on January [...]
