Giant Agaves In Cameron Highlands

During the March holidays 2012 my family and I went up to Cameron Highlands and saw these giant agaves growing by the roadside along the main road in Brinchang Town. Out of these four giants, two of them were flowering and one of them had the mother plant deteriorating quite badly. I suspect these giants may be more than fifty years old.

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 :-)

A Vegetable Farm in CH

We had the chance to visit Cameron Highlands again during the September holidays.
We visited a vegetable farm in front of our hotel. Vegetables seem to grow big and juicy so easily in CH and most of the farms are covered overhead with a transparent plastic sheet to keep the rains away. Well it rains almost everyday in the evenings in CH.

Tomatoes growing this way without any branches and leaves. The branches are trimmed away and the leaves are allowed to grow at the top. This gives me an idea how to handle my tomato plants next time I grow them :-)

Spring onions are juicy here!

These are the apple melons of CH. They tasted a tad too bland in sweetness for my liking.




The farmer harvested fresh corns for us to eat raw. He sliced them thinly and gave us each a thin piece to try. I was really surprised that raw corns can taste so good .... juicy and sweet.

The farms are terraced into the slopes of the highlands. We had to climb a lot to reach the planter beds. This activity is definitely not for those with weak knees.

Rose Valley Snippets Of Interests

Besides roses, the place also grow other many interesting plants as a combination to enhance the roses display ....
Here is a yellow species hibiscus ... the bloom larger than my palm and this is not the only one.


Purple Datura below.

Interesting bottle gourd and many of the brown ones were hanging over the pond to make an interesting display.
There were many species of Begonias and flowering ones too.

Fuschia.
Water feature garden ornament. Love the little porcelain containers.