Bunga Telang Putih – Clitoria ternatea alba

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,...

Garden Makeover

The last few days, I have been checking out garden related materials like paver patios, Mediterranean style and fragrant flowers. After trying my hand in planting vegetables last year, I decided to stop doing so this year. So now I need ideas to spruce my garden with whatever flowering...

Plumeria

This is the first time I tried to plant plumeria after a friend gave me a few cuttings from different varieties. So far only one type has bloomed. After searching online, I found a similar picture from mauiplumeriagardens.com. Nebel’s Rainbow Flowers are yellow with a deep red band on...

Pereskia bleo

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...

Rouge Royale Rose

If you are planning to plant dark red rose bush with a heavy fragrance, then I would suggest this Rouge Royale. Taken from starrosesandplants.com: The deep burgundy red buds open to reveal perfectly quartered bright raspberry red, old-fashioned blooms. These sturdy blooms hold up well in rain and heat...

Double Delight Rose

If you are looking for roses that are fragrant, have bright beautiful color, then Double Delight is a good choice to start with. It is a hybrid tea rose, with an outstanding bicolor, combining creamy white with strawberry red. Its parents were two hybrid tea cultivars – the red...

Thai Lavender Frog Egg Eggplant

I’ve been searching for their seeds for quite some time and finally I found an online local seller who sell it. It is best eaten raw as ‘ulam’ with ‘sambal belacan’ Here is some info about these tiny eggplants taken from myfolia.com Thai lavender frog egg is a variety...

Madagascar Jasmine – Stephanotis floribunda

When I first bought this plant, I thought it belongs to the jasmine family since it is called Madagascar Jasmine. However later after reading a few website, I realized it is called Madagascar Jasmine because it originated from Madagascar and the flowers have nice fragrance like most of jasmine...

Barbarella Eggplants

When the online seeds seller put up this eggplant seeds for sale, I thought it looks wonderful. So I bought a packet and tried sowing it in the tray. It didn’t take long for the seed to germinate. After a week or two I repot the plant to a...

Bunga Telang – Clitoria ternatea

I always hate climbing plants simply because my lawn doesn’t have enough space for the plants to climb. So when I got the seeds of this bunga telang, I thought just give it a try and see how well the plant can grow. I’ve tried planting several type of...