Our Garden Archives
An urban tropical garden in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Mostly shared here are experiences of joy and pleasure with our plant family and nature life that abounds in our little paradise!
Our garden flowers in February 2010
February had been an extremely hot season in our country, Malaysia! Eeek, too hot and humid most days, with very infrequent rainfall.
Of course, sun-loving plants in our tropical garden like the Bougainvilleas, Madagascar Periwinkles, White Mussaenda, Euphorbia milii, Ponytail Plant and Yucca, to name a few just love the heat while the Norfolk Pine, Macarthur [...]
February 2010 garden news
Hooray! We’re extremely happy with our garden project for January! Propagation of Cordyline terminalis by tip cuttings and section cuttings showed 100% success rate!
January 2010: Propagating Cordylines or Ti Plants
We had planted a beautiful Hawaiian Ti (Cordyline terminalis) before, probably about a decade ago. It grew from a stem cutting (also known as ‘log’) that was presented by a dear couple who returned from holidaying in Hawaii then. But was eventually discarded when it became leggy and unsightly.
Seeing a vibrant variegated pink/maroon beauty during [...]
Colourful flowers in our garden, November 2009
How timely that our tropical garden in November 2009 was in top form to present me with enough photography opportunities to try out my relatively new point and shoot camera, Canon PowerShot SX200 IS! My dearly beloved, John, presented me an early Christmas-cum-40th wedding anniversary-cum-birthday gift during the last week of October. Hehe…too bad that [...]
Propagating Proiphys amboinensis from seeds is viable!
Proiphys amboinensis (Cardwell Lily, Northern Christmas Lily) really had us intrigued when it flowered for the first time last April after 7 years and sent me on a search mission for its correct ID.!
An attractive foliage plant with large heart-shaped green-coloured leaves, embossed with lovely venation and will produce fabulous white blossoms unexpectedly to amaze [...]
Hypolimnas bolina jacintha (Jacintha Eggfly), the dancing queen!
Hypolimnas bolina jacintha (Jacintha Eggfly)
Our butterfly garden in October 2009
Hmm…just day-dreaming and imagining how marvelous if we do really have a butterfly garden! It’ll be paradise with all these wondrous insects, flying in droves to our tiny garden plot!
Anyway, we are contented and happy that some butterfly species do visit us regularly to keep us enchanted with nature.
Chilades pandava (Cycad Blue Butterfly), the diminutive beauty
Chilades pandava pandava (Cycad Blue Butterfly, Plains Cupid)
This species of blue butterflies are really very tiny and diminutive. You have to get real close and have good eyesight to enjoy its beauty.
Thank God that we live in the digital age, where a simple point and shoot digital camera can work wonders to bring out the [...]
September 2009 joy in our tropical garden
Gardening is truly food for the soul and its rewards are endless, a tonic for stress and a sight for sore eyes!
We’re absolutely delighted to be maintaining a garden blog here that gives us the opportunity to share online the many treasures seen in our tropical urban garden. They may look very ordinary to some [...]
Garden surprises in August 2009
These are such everyday occurrences in any garden, but they never cease to amaze us both.
John and I can easily get excited over very ordinary things that many gardeners may take for granted. Either one will update the other if something worth mentioning or happenings are observed and we’ll monitor them ever so closely in [...]
