My hibiscus is blooming again...

"Nothing you do is going to matter that much in the long run. Don’t take yourself so seriously..." - Naval Ravikant

(A 3-tone hybrid)

I randomly bought a few hibiscus trees from a local nursery. They have done very well for a while until the point when they started to drop leaves like crazy! The leaves would turn yellow and then drop. I started spraying fertilizer and insect repellent to no avail and decided to place the plants under quarantine and totally forgotten about them.

(A shocking pink with a tinge of white)

(Orange red)

A couple of weeks ago, lots of flower buds started to appear, and the trees have become bushy again! Surprisingly the colours have some what changed into a deeper tinge. For now I am going to let them bloom and enjoy the beautiful vibrant colours.

(Light pink)

(Beautiful peach)

(A bright orange, a new addition)

(Beautiful radiant yellow)

The Pergola Garden...

"If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere..." - Vincent Van Gogh

I enjoy gardening...

In between travelling and biking trips I love to indulge in gardening. Although I have little luck in keeping my plants alive when we are on long holidays, we still have some hardy plants like the Philodendron, Dracaena and snake plants  surviving. And of course my favorite bonsai Adenium will go into hiatus during our absence.

Our small fish pond under the pergola has been neglected for a very long time too. Slowly and surely we are trying to plant green foliages around the pergola again.

In time, greens make a beautiful garden..

(Pink hibiscus)

(Peach hibiscus)

Jaloro Chili @ my garden...

"I'd rather be a failure in something that I love than a success in something that I hate..." - George Burns

(Jaloro chilli, the Jalapeno hybrid, hot and sweet)

(Ripening well, ready to harvest)

(Jaloro chilli and spring onion from my kebun mini)

My first kitchen garden...

"The benefits of growing things are as much food for the soul as for dinner..."

This is my first attempt in kitchen gardening, and it won't be my last.

Last month when we visited my bother-in-law's vegetables garden it triggered me to plant something simple and easy. I surfed the web and got me an idea to plant spring onions that need little caring and no watering.

Using empty plastic bottles, compost soil and a-foot long wicks, I planted a few onions in the bottles. I added a few drops of liquid fertilizer in the water and left the bottles under direct sunlight. A few days after, I saw my first sprouts of green onion leaves.

And less than two weeks later I was ready to harvest my first spring onions.

(my first harvest of daun bawang)

(Chopped green onions in my cucur udang)