Category: Flowering Plants

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...

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...

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...

Jasmine Grand Duke of Tuscany

I’ve had this Jasminum sambac ‘Grand Duke of Tuscany’ since last year but somehow after a month of planting it, it didn’t grow really well. After repotting and pruning it, this year I noticed that the plant started to grow bigger. 2 weeks ago it started to bloom. The...

Hippeastrum reticulatum

This year my hippeastrum has bloomed twice. When I first planted this, I thought it is a pink lily. Later I found out that it is not a lily but amaryllis. After researching more, I found out that what people thought as amaryllis is actually hippeastrum. The one that...

Update on Kenanga/Ylang Ylang

Since the akar dani plant take over most of the space nearby my kenanga plant, I sometimes forget its existence. Last month I noticed there were new blooms coming out from the ylang ylang. I quickly snapped some pictures. The first bloom is usually in green then after a...

East Indian Rosebay – Bunga Susun Kelapa

When I bought this flowering plant at Floria many years ago, the seller told me that the Malay name is bunga susun kelapa. That time my main intention is to have as many scented tropical plants in my garden like kesidang, kemuning and bunga cina. Over the years, the...