Of foliage plants in the garden

Red Ti plants provide lively red tonal effects to overall green column of shrubbery and trees
Often times the Red Ti plant refers to the Cordyline terminalis 'Firebrand' . But this species Cordyline fruticosa have foliages in a variety of colour combinations
Location : Side Garden

Blood Banana and Golden Scindapsus

 Looking at the garden this morning I'm excited to see the role of foliage plants.  They add much needed colour to the greenery of the Kambatik garden, besides bio-diversity.  The garden architecture from ground  floor to top storey or canopy can be imaginatively layered or planted with foliage plants.  These plants whether trees, shrubbery, climbers or  herbaceous covers are attractive for their colourful foliages in full tonal or mixed coloration.  Some require shade to do well  while others may not object to semi-shade or full sun conditions.  In today's list I am able to capture the following plants as they exhibit their full potential in the garden this morning.  The plant list are as follows:-
Trees - Blood Banana -  (Musa acuminata spp. zebrina); Sea Cycas - Cycas rumphiiShrubs - Red Ti  - Cordyline fruticosa or Cordyline terminalis (Syn.) ; Croton - Codiaeum variegatumCovers - Golden Scindapsus - Epipremnum aureum or Scindapsus aureus (Syn.); Golden Pandan - Pandanus pygmaeus
           

Variegated Croton - Codiaeum variegatum

Variegated Croton - Codiaeum variegatum

Variegated Croton - Codiaeum variegatum

Sea Cycas - Cycas rumphii with Red Ti in the background

The Sea Cycas can be grown is semi-shade or full sun

Herbaceous cover- not identified yet

Golden Pandan - Pandanus pygmaeus

Note the Variegated Ti plant at forefround (in this case it's variegated green, red and cream combined) with Blood Banana tree at the back

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).