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 tropical garden in August 2008
Our garden plants are thriving well in spite of our erratic weather this month. Extremely hot one moment and the next, stormy rains with angry lightning flashes that scare the living daylights out of our pet dog, Maxi!
July 2008 in our garden
Yippee! We purchased some new plants for our garden in July!
John and I are always excited when we go visiting garden nurseries. Even if we finally end up buying a couple of plants or none at all does not matter. Just being able to check in and admire all the beautiful and awesome [...]
Memorable June 2008 event in our garden
Everything seem so marvelously perfect in our tropical garden setting in June. Foliage plants are at their luxuriant best, flowering plants/shrubs are happily blooming non-stop, mealy bugs/white flies are least seen, and even the weather was extra kind, neither too hot nor too wet.
Our garden star in May 2008
Rhododendron simsii or better known commonly as Indoor Azalea, Indian Azalea or Azalea indica is definitely our garden STAR FOR THE MONTH OF MAY!
Just look at these fabulous blooms in these images taken in early May…aren’t they impressive? Simply love those large and rosy-red blossoms with ruffled petals! There were 4 of them, lasting [...]
Stroll in our tropical garden: April 2008
Picture speaks a thousand words…..!!
So, here’s sharing two images of our front yard that delights us endlessly. Hope you’re as delighted as you feast your eyes on our tropical garden plant extravaganza! Are there similar favorite plants of yours seen growing here?
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 [...]
An unusual flowering of Spathiphyllum spp. ‘Wallisi’
Wow! What a wonder! Unique, interesting and captivating!
Unbelievable, but we’re seeing this remarkable phenomenon again. I can’t confirm whether it is from the same Spathiphyllum spp. ‘Wallisi’ plant that produced a similar flower previously in September 2006, but definitely from one of many plants, housed in the same pot.
An inflorescence with 2 [...]
February 2008 in our tropical garden
Annually around the second week of January onwards, our tropical climate will be so hot, dry and stuffy with much less rainfall or none at all for days on end. And, it is during such dry seasons that we’ve to be more diligent in watering our garden plants, especially so when most of our plants [...]
Christmas Plant in our garden - December 2007
Just have to share this stunning plant!
It is illuminating our whole tropical garden, especially during this time of the year, the wonderful Season of Advent and Christmas!
It is none other than the beautiful Mussaenda erythrophylla ‘Ashanti Blood’ which displays vividly the vibrant colors of Christmas - red and green!
Absolutely striking!
Walking in our garden - November 2007
Absolutely wonderful walking in our little garden paradise, being greeted with all the lushness and gorgeous colors splattered around! Every moment in and around our garden is pure bliss and joy. During such times, I’ll always consciously shut out the noisy traffic zooming past outside our frontyard and concentrate on the beauty our little [...]
October 2007 in our garden
Gardens everywhere evolve unceasingly, including our tropical garden! Day in and day out, plants continue thrusting forward and flowers yelling their heads off, to our great delight, amazement and wonder!
October has been quite a wet month with more rainy days than hot days. Somehow, in the month of October, they will always be at least [...]
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 [...]
August 2007 in our tropical garden!
Another colorful month, which I’d like to dedicate to all our flowering orchids - the Dendrobium Phalaenopsis! Just four delightful species shone throughout this month but sufficient to brighten our whole frontyard…hehe, but of course, since the area is pretty small, heh!
Well, here’s sharing images of their exotic and vibrant beauty! Enjoy, please! [...]
Our Garden Delights in July, 2007
Flowers continue to shine forth in our tropical garden in spite of a more wet than usual month of July! These are some flower pictures taken of our gorgeous favorites and gathered together into a collage, to display an explosion of colors to delight in!
Smiling Faces of Torenia Fournieri (Wishbone Flower) in June 2007
Herein lies the many colorful faces of the Wishbone Flower that happily greet us, endlessly! They’re found growing everywhere and anywhere - in hanging pots, containers and flower beds, even on mossy bricks. Every nook and corner in our tropical garden, sharing and squeezing as long as there’s moisture and soil! Such happy faces that [...]
Garden Beauties in May 2007
Our tropical flowering plants continue to delight us with their beautiful and colorful blooms throughout the whole month of May. Even the foliage plants wanted to make their dramatic presence known with their luxuriant growth and variegated/green paint!
April Garden Joy (Part 1 - Plant Life)
What a glorious Easter month this April had been! Lots of new discoveries and experiencing so much joy with all our plant life. There were gorgeous first time bloomers, like the Blue Hydrangea, White Bougainvillea and a Peachy-orange Hibiscus! We’re absolutely enthralled with all these new additions, firing in our garden.
March 2007 Garden Delights!
Fantastic! So many flowers were happily cheering in March, in spite of having been a wet and often times thunderous rainy month! They were flowering plants such as the Bougainvilleas, Heliconias, Brunfelsia calycina, a couple of Dendrobium and Vanda orchids, Euphorbia milii and Chrysothemis pulchella to name a few, besides those flowering in February and [...]
Gardening Mishaps!
Many unfortunate happenings in our garden are a result of our own carelessness and clumsiness! A fall, a scratch, an abrasion, a cut, an injection from a rusted nail or wire, a sprained back or fingers or wrist, and so on and so on…! Most of them could have been avoided or at least reduced [...]
Our Garden Flowers in February 2007
Pictures of some very common plants blooming year round in our garden, bringing much pleasure and delight into our hearts daily!
Posing in our tropical garden
We’ve captured so many pictures of our garden, yet have not taken a single photo of ourselves for a very, very long time amongst our lovely plants and flowers that we’ve cared for so tenderly and lovingly. Pretty strange, huh? Or are we gardeners really shy people? But we’ve lots of treasured shots with our [...]
Crack-Pot! Manila Palm burst its seam!
“Darling, there’s a crack pot outside!”, remarked my early bird hubby as I was descending downstairs one early morning about ten days ago. I was still groggy and the first thing that flashed in my mind was a crack-pot (a nut case), someone of unsound mind, doing his/her thing outside our gate! “Crackpot?”, I enquired. [...]
Our Backyard Garden
An area measuring 22 feet by 9 feet just outside our kitchen, entering and exiting through our back door. This is another gardening area at the back of our home that delights us very much, mainly because our lovable pet dog, Maxi, the resident king is here.
Our Indoor Garden - a courtyard actually!
This courtyard adjoining our dining hall, though small with an area measuring 13 feet by 8 feet, is definitely big enough for us to indulge our gardening passion and do some workouts and breathing exercises to keep fit, all within the privacy of our home. We love this open space area that not only [...]
An overview of our garden
It’s sort of scattered in the front, back and within our home premise, just a land area of 22 feet wide by 85 feet long! Ooooh…we just love our garden as it is, divided into three areas actually with the front yard, courtyard and backyard. Hehe, all within just a few walking steps from one [...]
Passionate Gardeners
During our younger days, we were more focused on bringing up and nurturing our family that included two wonderful sons, never realising that we can develop such an enthusiasm on gardening in our golden years! We did have some garden plants such as orchids, bougainvillea, some foliage plants and a couple of fruit trees then, [...]