Weeding Platoon

Once in a while the leader of the elderly exercise group would bring her group of people into the CG to help do some weeding activity. All would be given a plastic bag to fill up with weeds from the garden and then if there were harvests from the CG, they would be given some. Just last week the RC chairman gave them a breakfast treat for the National Day Celebrations. I took some pics and all were happy to smile for the camera.

Hoya Section Update

This section is slowly getting filled. There is still room for more :-)

Bulbs Progress Pt.1

The gladiolus bulbs are shooting up, fast !

The dahlia bulbs finally show signs of shoots .... :-)

Episcia Lil' lemon

I love the foliage of this family of plants. I am trying to find a suitable place to grow them in the CG. They need bright shade with some morning sun and love moist but not wet soil. So here I have tried growing them under a tree with some red leaf plants surrounding them to give them some more shade from the late afternoon sun and also humidity too. It seems to be working for the moment. Let's see how they grow.

Bulbs (gladiolus N dhalias)

I bought these corms from a member who hand carried them from Amsterdam back to Singapore. I shared the corms with some members and we are planting them together at about the same time to help check each other's progress on the corms.

I see the first signs of life here ... a couple of green shoots in two of the pots with gladiolus corms.

This grey pot contains the dhalia corms, three of them and no signs of shoots yet. Now I just have to wait.

Five Brugmansias On The Ground

Finally I found the ground for them. Thanks to a couple of kind GCS members who gave me cuttings to grow them in the CG, I now can only wait in anticipation for the flowers and heavily feed them till they flower maybe in a year's time.

Hibiscus Propagation Update

The leaves have grown bigger, some roots are already growing out of the bottoms of the cups and I suspect a couple of them even had flower buds because I saw some underdeveloped buds fell on the ground next to the cups during the rainy days last week. The pic below has a bud developing there if you look carefully.