Hibiscus Progress Pt.1

It has been three months since I started growing hibiscus from the stem cuttings given to me by a forum member. Some of them have been re-potted into 6 inch pots and a couple of them are growing flower buds. The two flower buds below seem to look like the white or yellow variety and they seem to be blooming at such a small size. Stay tune ....

Bulbs Progress Pt. 5

I see the blooms of the gladiolus Peter Pears .... and a couple more buds coming up .....

Ornamental Pineapple Fruiting

Bulbs Progress Pt. 4

Oh yes, the bulbs are budding and blooming this time round. The one below with the pink blooms is called Gladiolus Cindy.

More blooms coming up .... a likely red bloom .... let's see ....

Brugmansias Progress Pt.1

The five brugs are growing taller by the day. They are also getting more leafy and once in a while the leaves get bitten by some kind of insects but no great harm done.
I understand that I need to grow them for about a year to get the stems to branch out to the Y configuration before I will get the flowers. OK ... so I need to be patient and just keep watering , feeding and insect control the plants for the entire rest of the year till next year.




I believe I see the Y configuration in the stem branching in the brugmansia above. Maybe this will flower sooner than the rest.

Bulbs Progress Pt. 3

I had some time last week and so re-staked the gladiolus shoots. I believe this is definitely one easier way to make the shoots stand up. Well now if the shoots need to flop, they flop around in a circle within the red strings. .... LOL

Bulbs Progress Pt. 2

Gladiolus shoots are shooting upwards without any doubt. I had feedback that there were too many corms planted in the pot. so I got them separated and now there are not more than four corms per pot. The shoots tend to flip flop all over and I tried staking them the way I did below but it didn't help much cos' they were still flopping around. Stay tune to a new way of staking them. Also the corms were planted too shallow .... so now got to put more soil into the pots and hopefully they won't overflow.

After repotting the dhalia corms, the pot got attacked by snails ...haiz! Managed to save one of them and changed the position of the pot so that the dhalia gets a little shelter from the rain.