RED

Brownea, Stachytarpheta and Harpullia

These photos don't do justice to the splashes of red in the garden.

At the Fruits and Flowers and the Understorey gardens, the red comes in the form of:

• fruits of the Harpullia ramiflora,
• flowers of Brownea grandiceps,
• flowers of Stachytarpheta mutabilis and
• flowers of Acalypha reptans

Harpullia ramiflora

Red fruits of Harpullia ramiflora

Brownea grandiceps

A bud and a wasted inflorescence

Stachytarpheta mutabilis

flowers of the Stachytarpheta

Acalypha reptans

Cat's Tails

LANDSCAPE PLANTS

Tecoma stans

Landscaping is a very personal thing because everyone has their own preferences, likes and dislikes. What appeals to one may not appeal to others.

The interesting thing about landscaping is no two individual designs and landscapes are similar, because of the vast palette of plants available to choose from, unless it is a deliberate attempt to duplicate it. Different species and cultivars also have different growth habits and conditions, so it makes a landscape even more personal especially if the owner is involved in picking out the plants for the garden.

Here is a range of flowering and foliage shrubs that I recently recommended for planting although big trees and palms were not included.

Close up of Tecoma stans flowers.

 

Galphimia glauca

Close up of Galphimia flowers

Cuphea hyssopifolia

Close up of Cuphea flowers

Sanchezia nobilis

Caladium bicolor

Codiaeum variegatum

Carphalea kirondron

Close up of Carphalea flowers

Melastoma malabathricum

Justicia brandegeeana

Ocimum basilicum

Aglaonema cultivar

Alpinia purpurata

Xiphidium caeruleum

Asystasia gangetica cultivar

Stachytarpheta cultivar

Nymphaea cutlivar

Arachnothryx leucophylla

Tibouchina cultivar

Xanthostemon cultivar

BLACK VEINED TIGER & STACHYTARPHETA

It is very rewarding to see efforts of my planting coming to fruition when I frequently see lots of butterflies such as the Black Veined Tiger, visiting the plants e.g. Crotalaria retusa, that I planted. 

The blue-flowered Stachytarpheta indica is apparently a voracious weed too. I saw lots of them growing in areas where they weren't planted but I am keeping them. Anyway, the ones in this car park were planted and are here for keeps.