In the community garden, you will find gardens that have interesting plants and flowers. I’m always on the lookout for anything that is worth capturing. I have a small camera that do the job very nicely. I always bring it in my garden bag just in case. This day is when I saw these flowers…
I always go the farmer’s market on Wednesdays (it’s the weekly schedule in our community) and I was surprised to see a new vendor and he’s selling orchids instead of the regular produce. I just have to check it out. The orchids he’s selling is not like the ones I see in KCC Farmer’s Market…
I did not know anything about puakenikeni flowers until my daughter requested a lei made of this fragrant flowers to send to her on her birthday. She was working in Las Vegas at the time. So I went looking in every florist shops but nobody seemed to have it. Her birthday month is January and…
I call this plant butterfly bush because butterflies lay eggs on the leaves. The caterpillars eat the leaves until the whole plant is stripped. When the caterpillars developed into beautiful butterflies, they suck the nectar from the tiny flowers. The flowers that has been pollinated developed seed pods and I just saw one today that…
I have a vine in the garden for quite sometime and I don’t know what it was till it flowered. I was glad to keep it in the garden for as long as I could although fellow gardeners are telling me that it is just occupying a valuable space in the garden. Well, I am…
It’s always nice to just go and walk to the beach in Waikiki and come across so many beautiful things like the blue sky and the white clouds slowly moving over a vast ocean of different hues of blue. And then this blue ginger caught my eye and I just have to capture its perfect…