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Thriving Calathea Plants
Calathea plants, also known as Goeppertia are beautiful ornamental plants that are suitable to grow indoor. They love a very bright position that recieve bright indirect sunlight. My living room has...
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Dendrobium primulinum ‘Laos’
It was a real surprise to see this orchid flowering on a bare cane. None of my Dendrobium nobile orchids decidous, so the leafless canes looked sad, kind of spent and dead. The informations tell me...
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Prettiest Dendrobium nobile flowers
I have few collections of Dendrobium nobile orchids. Sometime last year I saw they were sold at Gardenworld, small in tiny pots. I bought few as they were quite cheap but only this one is having...
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African Violet Fruit
African Violet (Saintpaulia) is a pretty little indoor plant. Very easy and versatile to grow if you know what to do. It does not like to be watered from the top and hate to have the fuzzy leaves wet....
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Warburton Redwood Forest
Few months ago we went to Warburton, a small country town about 90 minutes drive from Melbourne, Australia. The forest was not much known until quite recently in the last few years. That morning was...
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Dracaena marginata
Most people grow Dracaena marginata in a pot indoor. Commonly called Dragon Tree, it can also be grown outside in the garden in warmer climate like here in Melbourne, Australia. Dracaena marginata...
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Dracaena fragrans 2024
I cut our tall and lanky Dracaena fragrans into 3 parts and replanted them in January 2013. One pot with top cutting with foliage. Another pot with 2 cuttings, rootless leafless middle cutting and the...
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Cacti and Succulents
Some of the cacti are flowering right now. One of them I am sure what it is, but the other two I am not sure what varieties they are. The Agave attenuata plants grow along the driveway. All of these...
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Marine Fossil
I found this rock in my front yard. At first I thought it was some kind of sea shell, but looking closely it seems like a marine fossil. A strange formation of what looked like some kind of sea...
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Cymbidium Orchids 2023
Here are few of the best flowering Cymbidiums this year: Cymbidium Mem. Marvin Gaye ‘Royale’ Cymbidium Mary Green ‘Copper Pot’ Cymbidium Lowio-grandiflorum
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LC Wakayama ‘White Wedding Song’
It bloomed two spikes each with a couple of flowers this year. The blooms only lasted around 4 weeks. Our living room has two large windows facing east and west so it is always bright and the orchid...
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Alocasia ‘Pink Dragon’
The bloom is quite small compared to the size of the foliage. At first I thought it was a new leaf growing, to my delight it turned to be a cute little flower. Another flower bud is growing near it,...
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Coelogyne lactea Orchid
I bought this orchid about 4 years ago. I just love the look of the small white flowers. It was grown in spagnum moss, so after finished flowering I split it into two and replanted them in two new...
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Transplanting Kalanchoe Copper and Silver Spoon
My favourite Kalanchoe plants are Kalanchoe orgyalis (Copper Spoon) and K. hildebrandtii (Silver Sppon). These two plants were brought from our old place, and I just had time to transplant them in the...
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Den. Speciosum var Pedunculatum ‘Genesis’
I bought this Dendrobium spesiosum var. Pedunculatum ‘Genesis’ at the Native Orchid Show in Mt. Waverley. It has 3 spikes with flowers still in buds when I bought in September 25. To my horror it...
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New Dendrobium Orchids
I went to a Native Orchid Show in Mt. Waverley and bought a couple of native Dendrobium orchids. Dendrobium Rose Flare ‘Newbold Chunky’: I love the colour of this hybrid. Dendrobium speciosum var....
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Cymbidium tracyanum Surprise
Tuesday May 22, 2012: Looking closely at the new C. tracyanum orchid plant, I realise that it is a big and robust species. The flower spike is tall almost 1 m long with 15 large flowers. The arching...
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Not Much Of a Garden
Our new place has a small garden at the front with some kind of spinless Yucca tree (?). The back and side yards are more of blank canvases. There are an ornamental olive tree and a couple of lemon...
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Zygopetalum maculatum 2022
Months after moving house, finally I had time to check on my orchids. I started with the Zygopetalum maculatum. Dusty leaves needed to be cleaned and dried leaves and stems were trimmed off. To my...
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Ontbijtkoek
Aslinya di negeri Belanda, kue ontbijtkoek ini bukanlah sejenis bolu atau cake, tapi lebih seperti roti dengan memakai baking powder dan baking soda. Di negeri kincir angin itu, kue ini dimakan dengan...
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