Showing posts with label african violet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label african violet. Show all posts

08 October 2012

HOUSE GARDEN

I know the name house garden sounds a bit strange but I didn't want to use the words Home Garden to confuse with the theme garden at HortPark.

The Cyclamen is one of my favourite exotic shrubs and I got hold of this corm for planting. Let's see whether it grows. The second is a big Gloriosa tuber which I planted out recently too.

The others are photos of the Pelargonium xhortorum, one of my other favourites, that I bought recently. I am trying to see how this plant performs under my care without any air-conditioned facility. It is receiving afternoon light but the leaves have apparently turned a bleached colour. Some of the leaves began to have brown edges and the flowers are few. I water it once in every 2-3 days by soaking the pot in water, the way one waters African Violets. I will fertilize this plant with a high nitrogen (N) and potassium (K) soon to see how it reacts to the fertilizers.





15 December 2010

GARDENING BAZAAR

These were all the goodies I bought during this recent gardening bazaar but I have yet to repot some of them. The list of plants purchased include:
  1. Episcia (I think it is 'Butter Oak')
  2. Kohleria
  3. Sinningia 'Apricot Bouquet'
  4. Stretocarpella saxorum
  5. Sinningia
  6. Drosera
  7. Alsobia 'Cygnet'
  8. Sinningia 'Mark Twain'
  9. Sinningia 'Ozark Rosy Cheek'
  10. Sinningia 'Star Freckles'
  11. Sinningia 'Rio das Pedras'
  12. Sinningia
  13. miniature Saintpaulia (variegated)
  14. miniature Saintpaulia
  15. Drosera broomensis
  16. Drosera paradoxa
The following are some links on these plants: