PISONIA

These are the flowers of the Pisonia after it was transplanted recently. How inconspicuous!

HOUSE PLANTS

I am really backdated when it comes to the postings. I have to clear all these before I can post anything more recent.

These are some of the plants that I bought more than a month ago from Ang Mo Kio Flora. They are as follows:

1st - Begonia (with red leaf undersides)
2nd - variegated Clerodendrum quadriloculare
3rd - variegated Pisonia alba
4th - variegated Tabernaemontana

Yes, one of the highlights is Ang Mo Kio Flora specializes on some variegated plants.

HORTPARK - HOME GARDEN

I saw this flowering Ixora finlaysoniana with fragrant white flowers at the Home Garden. It was next to another beauty the native Tarenna odorata, which also has fragrant flowers and was in flower. I was elated when I saw a fat earthworm on the ground and so snapped a photo of it.


Beside the swing, the variegated Pisonia alba looked as strikingly outstanding as before while the Pseudogynoxys chenopodioides sent out a few pretty orange flowers.

HOME GARDEN

These are the 4 plant species, at HortPark's Home Garden, that I would like to highlight in this particular post. Plants that I have actually described before in other earlier posts. They are respectively the following:

1. Pisonia alba (variegated)
2. Begonia rex - cultorum
3. Suessenguthia multisetosa
4. Dianella ensifolia

It is just so delightful to see these interesting plants in the garden. So far, I have only seen 2 species of them being available in our commercial plant nurseries.

PISONIA ALBA (VARIEGATED)

It was hard for me to imagine that the Pisonia alba is from the same Nyctaginaceae Family as the Bougainvillea. In fact, I have never seen the flowers of this small tree.

The synonym is P. brunoniana and the common names include Lettuce Tree and Cabbage Tree.

Anyway, this post is not about the usual Pisonia alba. It is about the variegated form of the tree. I love to use the common form in my landscaping but this variegated type simply blew me away. A link on the common tree is shown below:

http://toptropicals.com/catalog/uid/PISONIA_ALBA.htm

YELLOW

Yellow, a colour that I really love, was the theme of the day.

I do not know what is the tree with yellow flowers. Could it be a Tabebuia? Anyway, the trumpet-shaped flowers are beautiful.

The 4th photo showed the split-fruit of the Gardenia tubifera, where the unripe green fruit was shown in the same photo towards the top right-hand side.

There were 3 yellow plants in the 5th photo. In the foreground, there was the fine needle-like leaved Melaleuca bracteata 'Revolution Gold' on the left and the big-leaved Pisonia alba on the right. Towards the center looked like the yellow-flower but green-leaved Cassia surattensis.

The last photo showed the same Cassia that was pruned and trained as a standard plant.

PISONIA ALBA

This is another favourite small tree of mine too with its large yellow leaves.

I love the normal variety but this variegated version at the Home Garden is absolutely gorgeous.

There is another variegated version at Floral Walk but the variegation is more subtle and may not be obvious unless one looks at it closely in detail.

PISONIA

I always love the Pisonia alba (synonym P. grandis) because of its large yellowish green leaves.

So imagine how excited I was when I first saw a variegated version of this plant! I was taken aback by its beauty. So once I laid my hands on it, I planted one at the Home Garden next to the swing. Its leaf size and colours contrasted very well with the fine-textured or elliptic dark green foliage around it.

It is still there today although a lot of the other plants in that area were removed.