Most gardeners consider these wildflowers as weeds but I find them pretty amusing. Their simple beauty makes me smile. Marjolein Bastin, my favorite sketch artist, seemed to be drawn to their beauty too that she always draws them. I can’t help but emulate.
Orchid – Angraecum Eburneum I have been taking care of this rare orchid for quite sometime but I did not know the name until now. I tried to keep looking for the name in the internet and finally I saw the same picture from a website and so I was glad to have a name…
I was successful enough to grow this vanilla plant and made it flower hoping I will get the vanilla beans that comes after flowering. But unfortunately, no matter how I tried to pollinate the flowers, no luck with the beans. I guess, I have to look for the bee that does the job properly.
Nasturtiums – Tropaeolum majus – is becoming the number one popular among the edible flowers. It’s not only tasty and peppery but planting and growing it yourself is almost foolproof. They don’t need fertilizer and they grow in poor soils and give more flowers than if you grow them in very rich soil. It prefers…
Ilang-Ilang is probably the most fragrant flower on earth. It’s the secret ingredient in most signature perfumes especially Chanel, I learned. Ilang-Ilang or Cananga odorata is a tropical tree indigenous to the Philippines. It grows tall to about 40 ft. in height. In the forests where they grow well is acidic in nature so they…
Vanda Orchids are one of my favorites. I’m surprise to see them thriving in my cousin’s place in the Philippines when I went on vacation two years ago. The color pink is quite amazing. I’ve seen them in different colors here in Hawaii. I love the color blue the most. I know it is the…
I planned to plant Calendula in my garden but I could not find seeds available in any nursery or garden store so I bought a packet of mixed seeds of perennials knowing Calendula seeds are included in the mix. So I sowed the seeds and I waited for the Calendula plant to show up. I…