December '08 Update

Side Garden

The heliconi sassy pink are doing fine and so is the lower storey of colourful caladiums.

Front Garden

The orange ixoras are in their best blooms. I notice that the other plants in the background are taller .

Front Garden ( Side )

The white ginger lily flowers well together with the 'sepenuh' flowers and the drunken sailor blooms in the far background( partly seen).

CU View of the White Ginger Lily ( Hedycium coronarium )

CU View of the 'Sepenuh' flower

A collection of coleus ( solenostemon scutellarioides) are doing well. These were planted in October.

Another variety of the coleus plant. The coleus collection are planted on the side garden area.

Kuching Garden Project

Soft Landscaping

I am pleased to see some good improvements on the soft landscape of our house garden at Kuching.

On this Kuching trip I am pleased to note the good results of the soft lanscaping works done on our last visit here. Below is the picture taken when we were at Kuching last June showing the ixora coccinea in orange blooms.

On this trip I noticed the sea cycas palm that I pruned have produced new fronds as seen below.

Below is a picture taken during one of those rainy days ( which are many ) on this August trip.

The white ginger lily has been producing good blooms recently,which I used as cut flowers.

Above is a cu of the sea cycas tree that I brought from Bintulu and given a light pruning to encourage young shoots. I have started to circle the base of the tree with rhoe discolour. The pearl grass species were planted by spot turfing method and hopefully would provide total cover soon.

The wild banana have produced fruits and would be saved for its seeds for propagation purposes. Thus , overall the the results have been fruitful even though we have been away for slightly more than a month .

On this trip I managed to order good friable topsoil of the tarat series. Here I topdressed the side garden with new topsoil prior to turfing with pearl grass. I guess I would be able to see the grassing result when we next come to Kuching ( probably in October).