Category: Flowering Plants

It has been raining most of the time this December, and I have not been able to do much gardening due to busy daily routine as a mother to an active toddler. So when the gardenia keeps on blooming, it really makes my day to see the lovely white...

I think what I have here is Gardenia jasminoides. It also known as Cape Jasmine or Cape Jessamine, derived from the earlier belief that the flower originated in Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Malays call this flower as bunga cina. Gardenia jasminoides is a shrub with greyish bark...

I was so happy when this particular pink rose plant I have finally bloomed. The other rose plant which I bought at the same time as her has been flowering many time over the year, but she has not. I can see that this particular pink one does not...

This picture of my bunga kesidang was taken in early July 2010. I have been waiting for the plant to bloom after her last one in September 2008. After changing its spot from one place to another, I think it finally finds a good place to grow and bloom...

Remember the post about how I have been wondering whether I should repot my cattleya? Well, I don’t have the time and I didn’t repot the orchid. But I did spray the liquid fertilizer as often as I can remember. So, when last week I noticed the purple flowers,...

I never know what kind of orchid I grow until it blooms and I want to write about it in this gardening blog. So after searching and reading through a few orchid websites, I am pretty sure that what I have here is a Vanda. Taken from how-to-grow-orchid.com: “The...

It is a crime to neglect all my plants, I know that..but alas I have no time and opportunity to lavish any one of them with the old tender loving care. The cattleya I brought from old home seems to be doing fine until I moved the pot to...

I’ve had these 3 pots of bougainvillea for the past 6 years. When we moved to this new house, I thought of leaving them, but SIL advised me to pruned all the sharp thorny stems and transported them together with other plants. So after a few months of adapting...

Anthurium, from anthos, meaning flower, and oura, meaning tail, refers to the many tiny true flowers that form in the yellow tail-like spadix. (Taken from hawaiitropicals.com) For many years I grew a pot of anthurium in my garden, but lately the one and only pot of anthurium seems to...

I think what I have in my garden is Centifolia rose, also known as roses with a hundred petals or cabbage rose. Well, at least until I get myself confused with Bourbon rose..huhu! So if there is any rose expert out there, please clarify my confusion. Taken from the...