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 [...]
Quisqualis indica (Rangoon Creeper), simply spectacular!
Quisqualis indica (Rangoon Creeper Vine, Drunken Sailor, Scarlet Ragoon, Chinese Honeysuckle)
An extremely spectacular vine that just loves showing off throughout the year in our tropical heat! When in full bloom, this beauty will be dramatically covered with large trusses of tricolored flowers that are very showy and truly a traffic stopper.
Similar to another tricolor beauty, [...]
Dracaena deremensis ‘Lisa’ and other cultivars
Dracaena deremensis ‘Lisa’ (Dracaena Lisa, Dracaena Lisa Cane)
An attractive evergreen and shrubby plant with dark green foliage that is popularly grown as an indoor houseplant or outdoors, as a specimen. It can be potted or otherwise.
Interiorscapers just love Dracaena deremensis! With statuesque beauty, great tolerance for low light conditions and resistant to diseases, they make [...]
Brighten up with colourful Cordyline terminalis (Ti-plant)
Cordyline terminalis (Ti Plant/Tree, Hawaiian Ti, Good Luck Plant/Tree)
We’re definitely going to reintroduce Cordylines to our garden again. Gosh, we didn’t realize how gorgeous they can be until we saw this striking variegated pink/maroon beauty at Felda Residence Hot Springs recently!
It sure would brighten up our plot, adding contrast and interest to our current landscape
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 [...]
Big, bold and beautiful foliage of Philodendron bipinnatifidum
Philodendron bipinnatifidum (Tree Philodendron, Cut-Leaf/Split-Leaf Philodendron, Lacy Tree Philodendron, Selloum)
They were just tiny tots, less than 30 cm tall when added to our garden about four and a half years ago, but looking at them now, we’re absolutely pleased with their current status.
This duo have matured marvelously over the years, almost 1.3 m tall and [...]
Dainty lavender-purple flowers of Plectranthus ‘Mona Lavender’
Plectranthus ‘Mona Lavender’ (Lavender Spur Flower, Mona Lavender)
Another love-at-first-sight flowering plant that was added to our garden in late April 2006. Within a couple of months, it grew into a very attractive compact bush with lots of dainty-looking tubular lavender-purple flowers in lovely batik design. Very showy and incredibly fascinating!
We got to enjoy its profuse [...]
Impressive foliage of Dracaena marginata ‘Tricolor’
Dracaena marginata ‘Tricolor’ (Rainbow Tree, Variegated Madagascar Dragon-Tree, Red-margined/Red-edged Dracaena)
Its foliage is really impressive and dramatic – striped and dressed in beautiful color combination of green, cream and reddish-pink, besides being bold, spiky and marvelously symmetrical! That was what moved us to introduce it to our garden in early 2004.
Moreover, Dracaena marginata ‘Tricolor’ is a [...]
Marvelous colors of Hibiscus rosa-sinensis (Tropical Hibiscus)
Hibiscus rosa-sinensis (Tropical Hibiscus, Chinese Hibiscus, China Rose, Shoe Flower)
Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, the single form with the 5-petaled blood-red blooms, is Malaysia’s national flower. It is locally known as ‘Bunga Raya’ in the Malay language. Hence, it is no surprise that this spectacular ornamental shrub is popularly and abundantly grown in our country, especially along roads [...]
Sun-loving Tecoma capensis (Cape Honeysuckle)
Tecoma capensis (Cape Honeysuckle)
