Pesta Floria – Floral Festival Putrajaya 2011

  The theme was Roses are Forever.  Yes, that’s one theme that’s been flogged to death, but if it meant that there would be lots of roses at the festival, then I was all for it. A colourful expanse of torenias, cataranthus, impatiens, tagetes and roses led us towards the pavilion which housed floral arrangements [...]

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Pretty weeds

Most weeds give me a nightmare and there are countless on the lawn and in the flower beds. But there are two I cannot resist. One is the trimezia, the other the torenia. The trimezia and I are like old pals. We go back a long way. When I was just nine, there was a trimezia [...]

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The garden not too long ago…

  The garden has seen many changes through the years – plants and flowers appear, then disappear. But that’s what makes gardening enjoyable – the fact that it’s a canvas that changes and renews itself all the time. While I appreciate fuss-free perennials, I love annuals and the fact that I can replace them with something [...]

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Blast from the past …

The garden used to be a lot bigger than it is now, and the house was much smaller. Imagine, we learnt how to cycle in the garden balancing on a grassy slope at the back and we’d whizz right down to the flat ground. The garden was edged with fruit trees. Dad managed to pack [...]

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my 2nd shot at blogging

i abandoned my first blog after one paragraph. let’s hope this lasts longer than that! stick around and see what happens … i think this is mostly going to be about my plants and the garden, travel and food; not necessarily in that order of course.

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