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Garden Update - August 2013

Its been about 2 months after the last reset.These garden plants and they are behaving very well. I really like how the Coleus plants standing up well with their coloured foliages. The Costus had well...

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Garden Update - September 2013

This is one of my Cane Begonias that had gone towering with non-stop blooms. It grew tall and now due to the heavy rain had descended down canopying my orchids. These blooms are edible. They are...

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Garden Update - September - Continued

Two of my Earthstar (Crypthantus) died both sides.It shouldn't happen but I guess its the neglect due to lack of watering and feeding.These pale brown earthstar seemed to producing lots of pups...

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Airplants

As an experienced gardener.One of the rule of the thumb about getting a plant in a garden is to study first whether the plant can handle your garden climatic change from their natural...

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Succulents

The beautiful thing about succulents are that they are very exotic & unique looking. They just create an extra-ordinary feel in the garden space. Together with the uniqueness comes with a hidden...

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Ferns & Mosses

I have this feeling that when it comes to gardening- there must be a little adventure with the untamed.I doubt anyone can relate to moss as part of gardening.They are available everywhere(drainside,...

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Plants & Creepers among Pebbles

Have you ever had a sense of abandonmentwhen it comes to plants?More often when I find that I'm pressed for time and I truly lack the zeal to garden, and often times its faithfully rains every time I...

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Airplant Blooms - Tillandsia Ionantha sp.

Just within these 2 weeks of purchase these airplants starts to show its buds. Most of them have this red hue shades at the centre before the blue/violet buds in formation.As you can see I snap these...

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The Messy Garden - The 5th Series

If you had followed through my constant experiments of my Messy Garden Series, you would totally understand my predicament of this constant never ending change that take place in this section of my...

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Cactus Garden - Part 1

This is Mother of Thousands (Kalanchoe daigremonitana) Also known as Devil's spine & Mexican Hat. I guess this one is considered more of a "pest" than a plant. A lot of gardeners just hate it as...

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Cactus Garden - Part 2

Tiger's Jaw (Faucaria Tigrina)They seemed to require more watering than the weekly routine. Seemed like too much watering can also cause stem & root rot. So perhaps 4-5 days light watering can...

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Cactus Garden - Final Part

This is the overall Cactus Garden. It had slowly growing over the years and filling up beautifully without turning into a jungle. I had not used any fertiliser for them as I had bad experience once...

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Hot Red Blooms in the Garden

One of the joys of having this ground orchid is that its started blooming again after the 6 months blooming span. Its started after the 3 day heavy rain that took place this week with 2 new flower...

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Cool Blooms in my Garden

A friend of mine was clearing out most of his garden plants as he wants to focus very much in orchids. These are his collections which I had adopted in my garden. (There is another half more sitting in...

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How to Keep Roses in Your Tropical Garden

I wouldn't recommend any new beginners to start their garden with roses. They are really tricky to start with, unless you got the hardy ones but those are not sold in nursery nor supermarkets.I'm...

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A Trip to Sg.Buloh Nurseries

I had many times when my gardening friends ask me of the location where I go to the nursery in Sg.Buloh to purchase cheap (if not reasonable priced) plants. It take a bit of direction but somehow its...

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November Garden Updates - Part 1

Loading these pictures took me forever.These had been constantly collecting in my database and I have to eventually delete the older ones as they had to be considered obsolete(Well, most of the...

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Garden Updates - Part 2

This is one of the most challenging areasfor me to set in a presentation factor.Somehow the whole area doesn't seemed fit.(not the way I see in my mind)A lot of things got wrong (not as I intended)and...

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Garden Updates - Part 3

This is a continuation of the pictures from the earlier post.If you would see the last post you would able to see the over-all of the big picture of this garden space.I wouldn't brag about my garden...

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Begonia Updates

I started loving begonias when they seemed to do so well in my garden. The best part of these begonias are the variegated colours on the leaves. Somehow another addition of colours takes place that...

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