Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Cili Padi
Thursday, May 24, 2012
flowers at night....
Just want to share how flowers look like in the dark. Flowers still bloom out radiantly!
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Roselle seeds
I make sure my garden have continuous supply of Roselle. I use them to do refreshing juice. However now, I have little time to tend the garden. Some of the Roselle fruits have have dry out....sigh.... I wish I have enough time to tend the garden and to pluck each and every Roselle to do juice!
These are the seeds drying near my window. I just pluck one. That's enough for me. I have little more in my fridge for next planting time.... ;)
These are the seeds drying near my window. I just pluck one. That's enough for me. I have little more in my fridge for next planting time.... ;)
Friday, May 18, 2012
Growing process.....
Little Kailan and cabbage seedlings are taking own sweet time to grow. I just can't wait to harvest them though...... ;)
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Sunday Harvest
This is my harvest on Sunday. My 1st Angle loofah . I plucked it while in medium size
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| From garden to kitchen for Sunday meal! |
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| Lady's finger....longer than my fingers.....hahahhaaa... |
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| ripen cili padi. Small but spicy |
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| my very first angle loofah |
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
GBBD - MAY 2012
Those flowers below are blooming in my garden now!
I have a lot of self seeded Torenia all over the garden. But I'm Happy to have them at the moment. ;)
Beautiful red rose! I wonder why red rose in my garden provide single flower at time???
Pretty Yellow Angle loofah flowers!
I have a lot of self seeded Torenia all over the garden. But I'm Happy to have them at the moment. ;)
Adenium is flowering again. Beautiful deep red flowers!
Beautiful red rose! I wonder why red rose in my garden provide single flower at time???
Pretty Yellow Angle loofah flowers!
Basil have put up a lot of Pagoda kind of flowers too!
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| Hiding inside is periwinkle |
This is for GBBD May 2012. For more flowers blooming around the world, please visit may dream flower
Friday, May 11, 2012
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
The Luteola
Mussaenda Luteola have form a sea of flowers in my garden. Such a unique flowers. Don't you agree with me? ;)
p/s : I'm having some problem with my camera. Photos taken appears to be dark. I'm trying to solve it now...... ;)
p/s : I'm having some problem with my camera. Photos taken appears to be dark. I'm trying to solve it now...... ;)
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| This is evening time...but the photo look so dull...sigh... |
All the below photos are taken with flash light....... look like night taken photos
Friday, May 4, 2012
little angle loofah
Finally Angle loofah has started to produce little fruits. there are currently 2 fruits. So many flowers are available but only 2 manage to pollinate well I guess.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Mealy bug attack
I realize gardening is not all beautiful. There will be time that we face the failure. Some are due to our ignorance and some because of pest. It's strange that pest seems to know which plant we concentrate less.
Aglaonema is my favorite colourful houseplant. It's quiet easy growing plant and strive well even though we neglect them. I just water them and fertilize 2-3 months once and it's so happy with it. I like them...... beside me the mealy bug love them! It's constantly attacked by this pest all year around. Look at my poor Aglaonema plant. I just realize today morning that mealy bug already attack them quiet badly....sigh....
What is mealy bug? Here I found some information on it ( from wiki). I have a killing mission today! I mean kill the pest.....
Mealybugs are sexually dimorphic, meaning that the sexes have distinct morphological differences. Females are nymphal, exhibit reduced morphology, and are wingless, though unlike many female scale insects, they often retain legs and can move. The females do not change completely and are likely to be neotenic (exhibiting nymphal characteristics). Males are winged and do change completely during their lives. Since mealybugs (as well as all other Hemiptera) are hemimetabolous insects, they do not undergo complete metamorphosis in the true sense of the word, i.e. there are no clear larval, pupal and adult stages, and the wings do not develop internally. However, male mealybugs do exhibit a radical change during their life cycle, changing from wingless, ovoid nymphs to "wasp-like" flying adults.
Mealybug females feed on plant sap, normally in roots or other crevices. They attach themselves to the plant and secrete a powdery wax layer (therefore the name mealybug) used for protection while they suck the plant juices. The males on the other hand, are short-lived as they do not feed at all as adults and only live to fertilize the females. Male citrus mealy bugs fly to the females and resemble fluffy gnats.
Some species of mealybug lay their eggs in the same waxy layer used for protection in quantities of 50–100; other species are born directly from the female.
The most serious pests are mealybugs that feed on citrus; other species damage sugarcane, grapes, pineapple (Jahn et al. 2003), coffee trees, cassava, ferns, cacti, gardenias, papaya, Mulberry, sunflower and orchids. Mealybugs only tend to be serious pests in the presence of ants because the ants protect them from predators and parasites. Mealybugs also infest some species of carnivorous plant such as Sarracenia (pitcher plants), in such cases it is difficult to eradicate them without repeated applications of insecticide such as diazinon. Small infestations may not inflict significant damage. In larger amounts though, they can induce leaf drop.
Fossil specimens of Acropyga genus ants have been recovered from the Burdigalian stage Dominican amber deposits and several individuals are preserved carrying the extinct mealybug genus Electromyrmococcus.[3] These fossils represent the oldest recorded record of the symbiosis between mealybugs and Acropyga species ants.[3]
Aglaonema is my favorite colourful houseplant. It's quiet easy growing plant and strive well even though we neglect them. I just water them and fertilize 2-3 months once and it's so happy with it. I like them...... beside me the mealy bug love them! It's constantly attacked by this pest all year around. Look at my poor Aglaonema plant. I just realize today morning that mealy bug already attack them quiet badly....sigh....
Mealybugs are sexually dimorphic, meaning that the sexes have distinct morphological differences. Females are nymphal, exhibit reduced morphology, and are wingless, though unlike many female scale insects, they often retain legs and can move. The females do not change completely and are likely to be neotenic (exhibiting nymphal characteristics). Males are winged and do change completely during their lives. Since mealybugs (as well as all other Hemiptera) are hemimetabolous insects, they do not undergo complete metamorphosis in the true sense of the word, i.e. there are no clear larval, pupal and adult stages, and the wings do not develop internally. However, male mealybugs do exhibit a radical change during their life cycle, changing from wingless, ovoid nymphs to "wasp-like" flying adults.
Mealybug females feed on plant sap, normally in roots or other crevices. They attach themselves to the plant and secrete a powdery wax layer (therefore the name mealybug) used for protection while they suck the plant juices. The males on the other hand, are short-lived as they do not feed at all as adults and only live to fertilize the females. Male citrus mealy bugs fly to the females and resemble fluffy gnats.
Some species of mealybug lay their eggs in the same waxy layer used for protection in quantities of 50–100; other species are born directly from the female.
The most serious pests are mealybugs that feed on citrus; other species damage sugarcane, grapes, pineapple (Jahn et al. 2003), coffee trees, cassava, ferns, cacti, gardenias, papaya, Mulberry, sunflower and orchids. Mealybugs only tend to be serious pests in the presence of ants because the ants protect them from predators and parasites. Mealybugs also infest some species of carnivorous plant such as Sarracenia (pitcher plants), in such cases it is difficult to eradicate them without repeated applications of insecticide such as diazinon. Small infestations may not inflict significant damage. In larger amounts though, they can induce leaf drop.
Fossil specimens of Acropyga genus ants have been recovered from the Burdigalian stage Dominican amber deposits and several individuals are preserved carrying the extinct mealybug genus Electromyrmococcus.[3] These fossils represent the oldest recorded record of the symbiosis between mealybugs and Acropyga species ants.[3]
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