DROUGHT

These are photos of the brown turf at the Meadows area and since the arrival of the rain, the grass turned green soon after.

VARIEGATED AXONOPUS

This variegated grass is so amazingly awesome with its green-white leaf blades and purple stalks. I am so bowled over by its beauty.

WEEDS

These are two beautiful unknown weeds, at least to me. I would definitely keep them because I feel they have potential to be ornamental plants. 

Sadly, the first one growing among the Star Grass (Scientific Name: Dichromena colorata) was already removed.

As for the second one which looks like a Torenia to me, I managed to harvest some of them for planting in waterlogged areas and they are doing well. I hope to see a nice carpet in time to come.

COOL DRY PLANTS

I was wowed when I saw the flowering prehistoric Xanthorrhoea (common name: Grass Tree). Too bad I wasn't carrying my camera with me, otherwise I would have snapped more close-up photos of the inflorescences.


The unknown Acacia plant and the bromeliad were also in bloom and I managed to take these photos.

COOL PLANTS

This range of cool plants have it going for them. Ranging from Dianthus 'Silver Star', Fuchsia, Nepenthes, Cyclamen, Pelargonium, variegated Senecio macroglossus etc, they are a group of plants that demand a cold treatment with a lower ambient temperature or drop in temperature for optimum growth and flowering.

By the way, the highland Nepenthes produced inflorescences of male flowers. Outdoors, the tall grasses, Cleome hassleriana, Verbena bonariensis, Tibouchina and Pistia stratiotes dominate the landscape on land and in water.