Duranta 'Dark Purple'

This was a plant donated to the CG in a small hanging pot. I saw the lovely blooms and decided to plant it into the ground so that we can have a reasonable size purple bloom bush. Waited almost a year and a half before I saw blooms again and finally you see the blooms here. This beauty is hidden from all eyes because the shaded trellis was built in front of it.

Rose Patch

We had quite a number of Climber roses grown from cuttings growing big and had transplanted them outside the CG gate. Let's see how they do in that area.

Hibiscus Blooms Updates

Some of these hibiscus plants were 'donated' to the CG by people in the neighborhood. They came with bad soil, root bound plants and plants that were suffering from neglect and rejection. Here in the CG they have a place in my heart.

Cannas

A friend decided to donate most the the cannas from his garden to the CG cos' his garden was getting too shady for them. They were grown in their pots at the staircase before they were transferred to the present location. They grew tall and managed to flower. So here's a pretty yellow canna bloom. Enjoy!

Another Brugmansia Bloomed.

This post is long overdue. It's a pretty pink bloom and all too soon it was gone.
Brugmansia Emily Mackenzie ?

Flowering Episcias

Yellow Climbing Rose

I just realised that the CG has a pot of yellow climbing rose when I discovered it. I assumed that the climbing rose given to the CG were all Cecile Brunner's. It's a nice surprise and I will be watching this together with the baby pink ones. Later may decide which to one is to be planted into the ground and then let it grow up a trellis.

Bicolored Rose

This rose has a pretty dual coloration of yellow and pink. It's a nice surprise and I like it. It's a pity that I don't get many blooms from the plant. It's always a single bloom at a time ....haiz!

Hibiscus Orange 2

I believe this cutting was given to me by a friend and this is the first bloom of the orange hibiscus. It's different from the other orange hibiscus in the CG. Petals are a lot rounder and thicker and the bloom is sort of held nearer the stem, not the free hanging type. Looking forward to more blooms but it's rather a slow growing plant.

Pink Hibiscus Bloom

This was grown from a cutting given to me by a friend. Cuttings were taken from a huge bush that's at least a story high. It took about six months before the plant has it's first bloom. It is a pretty bloom. Can't wait for the plant to grow larger to have more blooms. The bloom is not pure pink and it has some white speckles near the edges of the petals with a dark red centre.

The Adenium Flowered at 17th Month

Finally got to see the adenium bloom ..... :-)

White Hibiscus Flowers (Updating)

The hibiscus cuttings have grown into bigger plants by now. They have also budded and bloomed a couple of times in the CG. I noticed that the plant can flower at such a short height (30 cm tall). During the last round of fertilizer feeding, I pushed some frozen banana skins into the soil. Banana skins are high in potassium and this is good for growing better quality flowers. I noticed that the white flower petals are not as thin and translucent as the orange hibiscus I grow in the CG.
To my hibiscus cutting donor .... looks like many of the cuttings turned out to bloom the white flower with the blood red centre. I believe I have about 8 pots of them ... LOL

Episcias Corner in the CG

I have set up an Episcia Corner in the CG and here I hang my pots of episcias which are grown from stolons. Some of them like the spot and some don't. Those that can thrive here will also flower here eventually. Let's see how the episcias like the environment since they have been growing here for about three months. Some them them need to adapt to the environment by growing new leaves and deteriorating the old ones. They sort of 'resurrect' from a short stalk and give you a nice surprise.

Below are the ones that flowered over the three months under the green canopy. Enjoy!



Pic below is Episcia Kee Wee.


Pic below is Episcia Warpaint.

Pic below is Lady Amazon.

Pic below is Episcia Burning Embers.

Pic below is Episcia Lil' Lemon which is grown under a tree in an old rubber tyre planter.

Pic below is Episcia Faded Jade.

Pic below is Episcia Pink Panther which was resurrected after the leaves were masively pruned down to get rid of the mealy bugs.

Pic below is Episcia Tropical Topaz.

Adenium Update 17th Month

Finally after waiting for 17 months the first signs of an adenium bloom surfaced. I believe there are a couple more coming up too. Rejoice!
Just for the record .... this batch of adeniums had undergone a couple of times being botak because of caterpillar attack. This is especially so during the rainy season cos' usually after the rains the butterflies would come to lay their eggs on the leaves.

Brugmansias are doing it again !

The rainy season at this time of the year and the cooler temperatures are helping the brugs to bloom once again. This time I see four bushes having blooming buds and there are still more to come. My CGers are so excited this time cos' they are buying 4-D based on the buds appearing on each bush. Well I wish them good luck and hope they will strike 4-D too.

Brugmansia Versicolor.

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.)