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An urban tropical garden in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

January 2012 in our tropical garden

Haha! Showing off some of our garden plants at our front yard, especially the inner garden plot that had some make-up done recently. Plants are growing splendidly to cheer our grieving hearts. Gardening is so rewarding! Really uplift our spirits and put smiles on our faces when we see our plants looking luscious and happy! [...]

December 2011 – our tropical garden update

Some new plants were added to our little garden paradise in December. Not perfectly timed though as we purchased them three days too early, just before our dearly beloved mother’s (John’s mom, my mother-in-law) unexpected sudden demise on December 12th. She’s much loved and missed by us all but God loves her more. Inadvertently, the [...]

November 2011 in our tropical garden

Somehow there are always some surprises in our tropical garden every month and November 2011 is no different! That’s the beauty of gardening and enjoying its rewards. Abelmoschus esculentus (Okra, Lady’s Fingers) It took about 4.5 months for this beautiful soft yellow Okra flower to emerge for the first time since seeds were sown in [...]

Propagating Aglaonema Plants

Aglaonema or popularly known as Chinese Evergreen, being first cultivated in China, is one of the most decorative indoor plant with attractive variegated foliage for homes and offices. With much hybridizing over the many decades, especially in Thailand and Indonesia in Southeast Asia, the newer cultivars are now available in explosive colours with many variations [...]

October 2011 in our tropical garden

Orchids and Celosia Shopping for orchid plants had never been that quick and easy for us before this! We got some last month, not from the garden nurseries where one would usually procure them but from the church that we usually attend, after the Eucharistic Mass Celebration. Strange, huh? Well, the Church of St Francis [...]

September 2011: our tropical garden update

We’ve been growing Spider Plants (Chlorophytum comosum) for umpteen years, so long that we won’t give them a second look when we visit garden centers – or so we thought. Recently though, we were spellbound by their presence at a nearby garden center that we dropped by early last month. With outstretched limbs and crying [...]

Our tropical garden update for August 2011

Hmm… we thought that we’ll run out of garden news eventually since our garden plants were greatly reduced due to health problems (i.e. John’s suffering from lumbar spondylosis that impairs his gardening activities). But it appears there are still leftovers that aren’t willing to be categorized as run-of-the-mill as yet. Some plants just want to [...]

July 2011 in our tropical garden

Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Endless Summer’ (Mophead/Bigleaf/French Hydrangea, Hortensia) – our garden star in July 2011 Feeling blue? Let the beauty of nature and the Mophead Hydrangea with its gorgeously large blooms mop away the sadness and unhappiness! The colour blue is considered beneficial to the mind and body, and strongly associated with peace, calmness and tranquility. [...]