John&Jacq~s Garden

Posted by Jacqueline on August 2nd, 2008

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 [...]

Posted by Jacqueline on July 31st, 2008

Lantana camara (Largeleaf Lantana, Shrub Verbena, Red/Yellow//Wild Sage) Simply adore these plants that are such prolific bloomers all year round in our tropical sun and high humidity. Flowers come in such a diverse range of marvelous colors and shades that are so exciting and captivating, making their slightly unpleasant scent seem so distant and tolerable.

Posted by Jacqueline on July 1st, 2008

Everything seem so marvelously perfect in our tropical garden setting in June. Foliage plants were at their luxuriant best, flowering plants/shrubs were happily blooming non-stop, mealy bugs/white flies were least seen, and even the weather was extra kind, neither too hot nor too wet.

Posted by Jacqueline on April 22nd, 2008

Adiantum trapeziforme (Diamond/Giant Maidenhair) – How wonderful! These tropical green beauties are found self-sown in every nook and corner, sort of. Like the Torenia fournieri and other ferns, they’re seen growing on mossy bricks, sharing ground or pot spaces, on crevices of walls and pavement, along the sides of drain and even sprouting from the [...]

Posted by Jacqueline on April 16th, 2008

Sansevieria trifasciata ‘Siver Hahnii’ (Silver Birdnest Sansevieria) – A very elegant birdnest cultivar of S. trifasciata that is perfect as a potted houseplant or grown outdoors as groundcover. Such a petite plant with exquisite variegation on their leaves and arranged in symmetrical rosette that is absolutely captivating!

Posted by Jacqueline on April 13th, 2008

Sansevieria trifasciata ‘Golden Hahnii’ (Golden Birdnest Sansevieria) -

Posted by Jacqueline on April 9th, 2008

Plumbago auriculata (Cape Leadwort, Blue/Cape Plumbago, Skyflower) If you love blue flowers and butterflies, this easy-to-care Blue Plumbago plant is then a must in your garden. It is a vigorous grower and a non-stop bloomer, profusely flowering spectacularly all year round especially in the tropics. Early February this year, we came across a huge scrambling [...]

Posted by Jacqueline on March 7th, 2008

Oxalis triangularis (Purple Shamrock, Purple Leaf Shamrock) What a stunner Oxalis triangularis is! We’re absolutely captivated by their uniquely colored leaves of deep maroon-purple and unusual trifoliolate foliage! Small clusters of light pink to lavender flowers borne above the lovely foliage display a wonderful contrast too. It is truly impressive! We’ve reintroduced a hanging pot [...]