The Hoya is blooming.....

At long last, our precious Hoya plant has awarded us with blooms. It was really a long wait from just a few stem cuttings that we brought back from our home country more than two years ago. We just soaked these cuttings in a bottle of water till tiny roots emerged, then transfered them to a few planters which eventually only one survived. The 'sole' survivor was later transfered to hanging coconut husk planter.














The first bloom which is rather small (around 1/2 cm dia for each tiny flower) and is slightly biege. The whole bloom just lasted for about 2 days before all the tiny flowers just falling off from the main stem. I was told not to cut-off the flower stem because tiny flower buds will just re-emerge again later...is it true?




















We were really surprised to see the subsequent blooms were totally different from the first, absolutely gorgeous. The blooms are larger with the tiny flowers slightly bigger (more than 1cm in diameter) and were of different colour...between red and mauve. The tiny flowers lasted longer and altogether there are more than 5 flower stems produced by the plant at a time...isn't it beautiful...this is really our 'prize' fruit of labour.

Begonias

Our collection of Begonias.

















This species of begonia is our very first begonia that we planted and it now exceed 1 meter (slightly more than 3 ft) in height. It looks delicate with tiny pink, bell shaped flowers but it is a hardy plant. Grows very well under shade with moist condition.

Currently, we have 5 different types of begonia in our potted garden with 2 of them bearing beautiful flowers.

Nepenthes or Pitcher Plants

These are our prized personal collection of pitcher plants that we bought locally and nurture till today. Being ignorant, we don't really know the species or the scientific names for them but from our knowledge, they are natives in this part of the region.

Decisions

At last, with moral support from my two darling princesses, Hidayah & Haziqah, I've decided to create my own blog to post my 'green fingers' achievements. Being a non-IT savvy, I will create my blog as simple as a layman's blog. Any suggestions to improve on the design & content are very much welcome from both fellow bloggers & visitors.

Apart from other interests, 'mending the greens' have always been the other passion of mine. Interestingly, it all started about 15 years ago with a small potted garden in the balcony of our very own apartment in the concrete jungle thus blossoming in size to more colourful, potted plants of various varieties at our rented bungalow in a tropical foreign land.....

Hopefully, I'm able to post more of the wonderful & colorful 'green' achievements that my family & myself have produced onto this blog.