John&Jacq~s Garden

Posted by Jacqueline on October 8th, 2009

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 [...]

Posted by Jacqueline on September 30th, 2009

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 [...]

Posted by Jacqueline on September 3rd, 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 [...]

Posted by Jacqueline on September 2nd, 2009

Hmm…not only this garden blog of ours had been neglected, even our garden had been too! My garden chores like planting, replanting or repotting, and pruning have been sidetracked by my fixation on unexpected problems that surfaced at my Blogger blog and whilst guiding a friend to create her own blog via email. Too much [...]

Posted by Jacqueline on July 31st, 2009

Wow! We got to grow a Passiflora vine finally! The right image shows our first seedling, recently repotted (on July 23th) into a large pot and located against the chain-link fencing at our backyard. It’s growing very well and is now about 38 cm tall, growing too vigorously, I’d say! Pearly surprised us after the [...]

Posted by Jacqueline on July 28th, 2009

For years, we had thought that our luxuriant-looking plant was a Hosta. Its beautiful and large heart-shaped lime-green leaves are such a wonderful sight for sore-eyes and provide added greenery at our courtyard, delighting us so!

Posted by Jacqueline on June 30th, 2009

Bauhinia kockiana has always been a baffling vine for us. It is most elusive. Grows fast and vigorous with beautiful bright green and luxuriant foliage yet rarely flowers! We seldom get to enjoy their blooms in large stunning clusters, that are so often seen in most home gardens around our neighborhood or elsewhere. Just have [...]

Posted by Jacqueline on June 1st, 2009

Wow! Our baby is grown-up! Just two years old, short of one month. There’s always excitement and pride when a young plant blooms for the first time ever upon maturity. This time, it is an orange Crucifix Orchid that was added to our garden in May 2007. Voted as our star orchid for May 2009, [...]

Posted by Jacqueline on May 26th, 2009

Continuing from our previous article Rats storming our garden, February 2009. O, what bliss! Joy and peace at last in our little garden paradise! No sign of the abominable vermin for almost two months! No more stinking stench! No more cleaning their mess! And, no more setting useless traps and the like!

Posted by Jacqueline on May 7th, 2009

Did you notice in the right photo that the Lady Palm had broken its pot? Hence, we were forced to replant them but it took an awful long time for us to actually do so….which we finally did early last month. Unbelievable, we procrastinated for almost a year! Anyway, it was a blessing in disguise [...]