My Nice Garden: Malvaviscus arboreus

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Friday, May 17, 2013

My DIY Home Garden in Malaysia - GBBD May 2013

Strange things are happening to my hibiscus lately.

My yellow hibiscus has change in appearance! It was a beautiful single flower hibiscus with wavy edges and 5 large petals (Pic 1) when I first bought it but now it seems that it has suddenly grown a second set of petals surrounding the pistils! An extra upper tier of flower petals to be more exact. Pic 1 and 2 are of the same plant but taken at an interval of one month.

Is this a hybridisation experiment gone wrong?

“My DIY Garden in Malaysia - GBBD May 2013”, a copyrighted post, was written for My Nice Garden blog by Autumn Belle @ http://www.mynicegarden.com/ on May 16th 2013.

A similar thing happened to this pinkish purple hibiscus too.
At one glance it looks like a double flower variety with about 10 petals arranged in 2 layers.

See the difference?
After the first round of flowering, this is how the flowers look like after reblooming.
It is clearly a double flower variety but the petals shape has changed!
Pic 3 and 4 are of the same plant but taken at one month interval.

My pink single flower hibiscus with a red eye centre.

Another large striking pink hibiscus!

Our humble National Flower, the red hibiscus.
Butterflies and sunbirds still prefer this simple hibiscus as compared to the rest.

Turk's Cap - Malvaviscus arboreus with flowers pointing up.

This mini Hibiscus rosa-sinensis is my favourite.
Love how the flowers point up and they are small and cute.

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Red petunias.

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Bamboo ground orchid (Arundina graminifolia) with Medinilla atronoides.

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Caladium bicolor

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Euphorbia bracteata
Synonym: Pedilanthus bracteatus
Common names: Little Bird Plant, Slipper Plant, Candlelilla

The above is the fruit that appeared after the flowers have withered off.

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The Common Palmfly butterfly perched on my pandan plant (Pandanus amaryllifolius)
Scientific name: Elymnias hypermnestra agina

Notice the distinct white dot on its hind wing?

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Green Heart Sunflowers.
The flower heads are about 6 inches diameter and plant 4ft tall.

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Bougainvillea.

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This Lime Butterfly which was reared in My Nice Garden was born on the morning of 11 May 2013. That morning I was to be interviewed "Live" on a national TV show for a Mother's Day special for moms who loves gardening. What a coincidence!

It appeared on the set of "Bella NTV7 Thursday Unwind" that morning. Members of the broadcasting team named it "Bella" and Bella was released the same day on the grounds of the TV station.

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Solenostemon scutellariodes (Syn: Coleus blumei) aka Painted Netlte

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Desert Rose

Which one is your favourite?

This is my entry for
Garden Bloggers Bloom Day (GBBD) - May 2013 hosted my Carol of May Dreams Garden, the link is here.
Fertilizer Friday hosted by Glenda at Tootsie Time here.

Friday, September 14, 2012

My DIY Home Garden in Malaysia - GBBD Sept 2012

Earlier, I have posted a Youtube video for my GBBD post. Here's my picture lineup for Garden Blogger's Bloom Day - GBBD Sept 2012.

Tell me which do you prefer - Youtube video or blog post of my pictures?

I didn't have much luck when I first started growing anthuriums.

They weren't growing well and they also didn't bear flowers.

I used to wonder why.

The 10 Types of Hibiscus in My Container Garden

1. Hibiscus rosa-sinensis 'Brilliant Red'

Currently, I have 10 different hibiscus plants in my garden. All are grown in pots.

The above hibisus is Hibiscus rosa-sinensis 'Brilliant Red', the National Flower of Malaysia. It is the 2nd hibiscus I planted in my garden. A family member won this lucky draw prize, now it has become my prized possession.

It is the most dependable hibiscus plant in my garden - it can live on its own without any extra fertilizer or watering from me
it is ever-flowering - it gives me flowers every day, the whole year through.
the flowers attract butterflies, even bugs in love - to see Grasshoppers Mating post, click here.
flower buds can be eaten, even my pet tortoise, Blastoise loves it. (See here).
sunbirds love to perch on its branches.

By the way, do you notice anything unusual about this flower?
Well, there are 2 superimposed flowers here!

“The 10 Types of Hibiscus in My Container Garden”, a copyrighted post, was written for My Nice Garden blog by Autumn Belle @ http://www.mynicegarden.com/ on Sept 9th, 2011.

GBBD March 2011

1. Miniature roses

For March 2011 Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, I have miniature roses.

Can you see the sun reflected on the water droplet?

2. Costus woodsonii

When the tiny flowers appear in this Costus woodsonii plant, it usually attract a lot of ants with its sugary liquid. The flowers are edible. This hairy caterpillar seem to have cut open the defensive wall of orange bracts that protect the yellow flowers and shifted in. The critter seems to eat the flower but not the leaves of this plant.

I wonder which butterfly/moth this baby belongs to?

“GBBD March 2011”, a copyrighted post, was written for My Nice Garden blog by Autumn Belle @ http://www.mynicegarden.com/ for Autumn Belle on 16th March 2011.

3. Hibiscus rosa-sinensis cultivars - double petaled vermillion red.

4. Tawny coaster butterfly on a palm tree.

This tawny coaster butterfly was drying its wings when I found it near my vegetable plants in the late evening. It walked on to my fingers and momentarily rested on my palm tree just before taking off in its maiden flight.

5. Blue throated sunbird

This looks like a blue throated yellow breasted, olive-backed sunbird sitting on my neighbour's longan tree.
Do you know its name?

6. A Hibiscus rosa-sinensis cultivar - single petal yellow with pink veins.

7. Turnera ulmifolia or yellow alder flower.

8. A pair of pigeons/quails on my neighbour's same longan tree. One was posing like a supermodel while the other one was very shy and somersaulted away when it saw me pointing my camera. I guess he doesn't like the paparazzi!