Category: Herbs

After successfully planting the blue clitoria ternatea or butterfly pea, last year I tried to plant the white variety I bought from an online seed seller. This time I bought the double petals flower since the blue one I have earlier is the single petals. Malays call this flower,...

After a brief research I realized that this is Pereskia bleo instead of my previous post as Pereskia sacharosa. Reason being, this has bright orange flower while sacharosa is supposed to have pink flowers. Info taken from desert-tropicals.com: Pereskia is a genus of about 16 species of primitive cacti...

After a few failed attempt with chinese celery (daun sup), I bought seeds of Italian Parsley from Diana of kebunbahagiabersama.blogspot.com. I planted the seeds and waited for the Italian parsley (Petroselinum crispum neapolitanum) to grow. It certainly took a while because by the time I was in confinement, the...

There are many types of basil, but this particular one is known as Thai basil or Ocimum basilicum ssp. A friend gave me the plant several months ago. I’ve seen the leaves being used in Thai dishes but never like the taste and the smell of it. Thai basil...

When I was given this plant (or rather the cutting of it) by MIL, she told me that it is called Jarum Tujuh and has the medicinal benefit to cure cancer. Since I collected herbal plants, I decided to try and plant it. It does has sharp thorns along...

I grow this bunch of pegaga plants in a pot since 3 years ago. I am not sure what type of pegaga it is because I’m very sure this is not the one that you make kerabu or eat as ulam. The pegaga I grow have thicker leaves and...

This is what happen when you bought too much fresh turmeric for cooking. In the end all the fresh rhizomes start to grow on their own and I have no choice but to plant them in pots. At the moment I have like 3 pots of turmeric plants. This...

I have this curry leaves plant for almost 4 years now. By right, it should have grown taller and bigger than this but I don’t know, maybe because I planted it in pot rather than on the ground. But I am grateful that it is still alive after all...

I have been very busy with my other obligation that I neglect my garden and my gardening blog. Wish I have more time to devote to it. It’s sad to realize how much unloved and uncared for all my plants have been ever since I have been busy. About...

Sometimes I thought my lemongrass plants are part of the weeds or lalang that grow on the yard. Until I take a closer look and see that the lower portion of the thick grass is really serai that you can used in cooking..haha! Should have mowed my lawn more...