Good day my gardening chums!
sorry for not posting for ages, been so busy with customers and their garden needs. Because i also go to peoples homes to advise on gardening ideas too, if you want to get a quotation for a consultation just let me know! ok, business plug over!
Now, as the title suggests we have been having alot of wet weather, nothing unusual in the rainforest region i know, but you must take some extra precautions during this time of year.
If you have delicate plants, small flowers, your strawberry plants for example it might be worth setting up a plastic roof for them, you can use rigid plastic or sheet plastic like whats found in a plastic bag, but something that will reduce slightly the amount of water your plants is taking on.
If you dont, the plant will simply go rotten due to taking on too much water and its dead. Also with the reduction in sunlight caused by the cloud cover, you will need to feed your plants more regularly. Instead of only once a month for normal conditions you may need to give them food twice a month, just to give them a boost.
Also if you have large bushy plants like Bougainvillea or roses, Hibiscus that sort of thing, now is a good time to give them a haircut, prune them back and this will encourage new growth for when the dry season comes and will then produce more flowers. If you are unsure about how much to cut off then contact me, and i will come and look at your plants and advise accordingly ( a small consultation fee will ne charged).
Well, we are all set for Chinese New Year, although i have not seen many rabbits here in Malaysia.. anyway to all our Chinese friends and customers Gōng xǐ fā cái !!
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Amaryllis Flowers
Good day my gardening chums,
Today i thought i would talk about one of my favourite flowers, so beautifull and elegant and very easy to grow.
Amaryllis is a genus of plant that has only one species, the belladonna lily. Many lily like plants of the same family, however, arc commonly called amaryllis, including the daffodil, snowdrop, tuberose, century plant, and more than 1,000 others.
The belladonna lily, grows from a bulb. its stalk is 18 to 30 inches high. It is topped by a cluster of 6 to 10 trumpet-shaped flowers which grow about 3 inches long. The fragrant, six-petaled blossoms are typically rose red, but they may be pink, purple, or white striped. Long, narrow leaves appear after the flowers wither.
As a wedding bloom, amaryllis is a novelty among better-known flowers like roses and peonies. But there is no end to the romance of this blossom's tale. According to Greek myth, a maiden named Amaryllis created a red bloom for her true love from her own heart's blood. In Victorian times, the flower was given as a sign of the recipient's "splendid beauty.", amaryllis come in whisper-white, creamy orange, pink, or even yellow.
They are among the easiest plants to growsimply water if indoors 2 or 3 times a week, and if outside, well this time of year, nature will take care of the watering!
at the top of the page is a picture of our variety of Amaryllis variety, very pretty as you can see, pop over and see us for more information.
Today i thought i would talk about one of my favourite flowers, so beautifull and elegant and very easy to grow.
Amaryllis is a genus of plant that has only one species, the belladonna lily. Many lily like plants of the same family, however, arc commonly called amaryllis, including the daffodil, snowdrop, tuberose, century plant, and more than 1,000 others.
The belladonna lily, grows from a bulb. its stalk is 18 to 30 inches high. It is topped by a cluster of 6 to 10 trumpet-shaped flowers which grow about 3 inches long. The fragrant, six-petaled blossoms are typically rose red, but they may be pink, purple, or white striped. Long, narrow leaves appear after the flowers wither.
As a wedding bloom, amaryllis is a novelty among better-known flowers like roses and peonies. But there is no end to the romance of this blossom's tale. According to Greek myth, a maiden named Amaryllis created a red bloom for her true love from her own heart's blood. In Victorian times, the flower was given as a sign of the recipient's "splendid beauty.", amaryllis come in whisper-white, creamy orange, pink, or even yellow.
They are among the easiest plants to growsimply water if indoors 2 or 3 times a week, and if outside, well this time of year, nature will take care of the watering!
at the top of the page is a picture of our variety of Amaryllis variety, very pretty as you can see, pop over and see us for more information.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Name change!
Good day my gardening chums,
now, come on, who noticed anything different? did you? no? oh you did, see, you are clever!
yes, we have changed the name of our blog, in fact we have done more than that, we have changed the name of our web page and our facebook page too,our email is still the same for now so you can use that to get in touch. You see we are changing to meet our customers demands, we have had many requests for flowers as well as fruit plants so now, we have our roses and also amarrylis plants for sale too, we will still have herbs but the demand for flowers has been higher so we will be concentrating on our vanilla, strawberry and flowers now.
Oh, and our Christmas sale has been extended to Chinese New Year! so get your 3 plants for the price of 2 while stocks last, and come and see our new roses, we have white ones, pink ones, red ones, purple ones, LOADS!
now, come on, who noticed anything different? did you? no? oh you did, see, you are clever!
yes, we have changed the name of our blog, in fact we have done more than that, we have changed the name of our web page and our facebook page too,our email is still the same for now so you can use that to get in touch. You see we are changing to meet our customers demands, we have had many requests for flowers as well as fruit plants so now, we have our roses and also amarrylis plants for sale too, we will still have herbs but the demand for flowers has been higher so we will be concentrating on our vanilla, strawberry and flowers now.
Oh, and our Christmas sale has been extended to Chinese New Year! so get your 3 plants for the price of 2 while stocks last, and come and see our new roses, we have white ones, pink ones, red ones, purple ones, LOADS!
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