TIFE Pt.2 Gold Award For Floral Display

This entry has been given a gold award. It has tillandsias, cactii and succulents on their vertical walls. Interesting ideas and feast for the eyes .... on shades of green.

Below ...... are some perculiar displays seen in the same area .......

Look at what they do with Earth Stars ...... when combined with so many of the them together and also with the orchids displays ...... they do catch my eye.

Taipei Int'l Flora Exposition Pt.1

Had a chance to visit the Taipei International Flora Exposition and so we found ourselves at the entrance of Yuanshan Park buying tickets for a three day visit pass.
On our way there we already saw signs of massive flora and foliage displays lining up towards the entrance.



Below ..... vertical garden walls seen on almost every wall that advertised for the Expo.



Begonias growing so well on the grounds and it's already the beginning of the winter season for Taipei.

The Coleus varieties color up the pathways leading towards the Expo. sites.

We visited the Expo. Dome which housed the Floral displays by the commercial artists.

Below .... Orchid Flasks stacked up as a centre of attraction ....


A Musical Fairy balancing on a ball of flowers .....

Deorated Harp .....

A 'Coffin' of Orchids .....

Cups of Anthuriums and Bromeliads ....

Brugmansias Buds Bloomed!

I remember it was only in August this year when I planted the one foot high plants into the ground. I thought I had to wait for a year before I could see flowers. But last week when I checked the plants I noticed that one of them had something different growing and realised that these were flower buds. Due to the rains I noticed that some buds had also dropped off. On Sunday evening I was greeted by two CGers who were working in the CG and they said that the flowers are very pretty as they had never seen such kinds of flowers before. One of them even asked if she could have a pot of such a plant and I just frowned at her ... LOL

These blooms greeted my dd and I when we visited the CG to do weeding. Dd was so curious and even took one of the flowers to sniff for fragrance .... it's sort of lemony she said. I did like wise and well .... the fragrance was very light. Maybe got to sniff the flowers sometime in the night to breathe in the more concentrated scent. Who knows ... and maybe then you find some strange on goings in the CG in the night ..... LOL

(It was written somewhere that the brugmansia flowers when eaten or sniffed at can produce a high in the human brain. The plant is not edible.)

Rose Center In Cameron Highlands

I am never tired of looking at roses and smelling fragrant roses too. So when we visited CH again we made it a point to visit this Rose Center. This time round this garden center has a lovely view at the top of the hill.The walking journey up the hill
made the experience a visual treat. Here are some mandatory pics of the roses growing there ... ever so large and blooming ... seldom seen in this size in Singapore.






So here below our walking journey began ......

Rest point to admire the view and to catch our breaths ....

Finally we reached the top .... behind us the Equatorial Cameron Highlands where we stayed.

Cactus Valley in Cameron Highlands

Cactus Valley is situated up on a hill and from afar we could see this huge structure displayed prominently in it's majesty :-) The garden centre doesn't only grow cactus and succulents but many other plants to. Let's show case the beauty of cactus and succulents here first. I believe that these cactus and succulents have been growing here for many generations and they are all huge, gigantic and majestic. Pots and pots of them and thorns and thorns of them too ... LOL I can only imagine my tiny, puny cactus and succulents that I bought could one day grow into some of them like those here :-)

Hibiscus Progress Pt.2

Finally one of the two flower buds opened. It's a white hibiscus with the blood red centre and the petals are papery thin. The other bud was lost during a rainy afternoon.

Mexican Sunflowers Encore ....

I got the seeds from the first batch that I planted in pots. Now I grow the second batch into the ground. After four months they have flowered for me at a shorter height. Enjoy the pics ....