Flowering best

Hibiscus hybrid

Drunken Sailor

 What's flowering  best today?
The Hibiscus hybrid, Drunken Sailor and the Ixora are in their best.  The garden is not without flowers and colours.  There are always  flowers to excite the senses on any day throughout the year.  This unique character of our tropical garden needs to be further explored in all ways. However, gardening is not only for the love of flowers.  I enjoy the garden more if more wildlife especially birds and butterflies are attracted to it for shelter, transit places and as food source.  The garden should not only prosper us but also the world of nature. Be happy, be prosperous!

Ixora coccinea

Hibiscus hybrid

Tropical and lush greenery at the front garden

Yellow Palm, Carpentaria Palm and Red Sealing-wax Palm at the front garden

 The front garden is looking luxuriously tropical with its many varieties of palm trees.  Colour is provided by the Eugenia oleina tree, flowers of the Drunken Sailor, fruits of the Carpentaria palm and crown sheaths of the Red Sealing-wax palm.  The yellowish feather-like leaves of the Yellow Palm is also attractive in its on way.  Interestingly the Drunken Sailor has managed to hold on to the tall Carpentaria Palm.  Finally I think I have achieved what I wanted to create at the front garden.  A composition of luxury, evergreen and colourful nature to be enjoyed every day throughout the year.

Drunken Sailor (Quisqualis indica) scrambling over the Eugenia oleina tree

CU of the Drunken Sailor flowers

The Drunken Sailor at last managed to creep on to the tall Carpentaria Palm.

Front Garden Update - July'09

The front garden's fence area is now well covered by the Drunken Sailor (Quisqalis indica). The two Carpentaria palms have passed the ceiling height and the Blood Banana has grown into a respectable clump. One new attraction has been the Hibiscus Hybrid which flowers reguarly in red hues. Below are update photos as at today - 8/7/09.

The Drunken Sailor scrambles for support.

CU of Hibiscus Hybrid - looking healthy after some heavy dose of chicken manure, which they adore.

Front Garden Update - July'09

At the front garden , a species of our local orchid seemed to be doing very well after being planted in early June just before we left for Bintulu.

Today - when it has grown big

Before - when it was just small

To the right of the front garden, the Drunken Sailor ( Quisqualis indica) meets the Blood Banana ( Musa zebrina). It appears now that the Drunken Sailor vine has twined itself to the banana stem. Interesting move.