John&Jacq~s Garden

Posted by Jacqueline on November 17th, 2011

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 [...]

Posted by Jacqueline on July 22nd, 2010

Cyrtostachys renda (Lipstick Palm, Red Sealing Wax Palm) is one of the most beautiful and striking clumping palm that’s admired by many. A must-have exotic palm specimen if you have the garden space! Last October, while taking photos of the Lipstick Palm trees that were growing in our church’s compound to include in our C. [...]

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 [...]

Posted by Jacqueline on May 5th, 2009

Just to illustrate how Calathea roseo picta can be easily propagated by division. Our lovely cultivar ‘Eclipse’ had blossomed last October and having seen how fabulous its flowers were, we thought it would be wonderful to multiply their presence in our garden. Rather than buying new plants, we decided to separate our existing plants into [...]