Bouganvillae (Bunga Kertas) for Birthday

We celebrate everyone's birthday here at home. Sometimes with a surprise birthday cake, a kid's birthday party and sometimes celebrated at restaurant while we were traveling. Birthday presents are sometimes big sometimes small depend on budget. We got a Bouganvillae plant for my husband's 40th birthday. The plant is made of three plants of different color. Specially done ... beautiful.

Favourite plants - Kemboja

We bought this plant very small. At one time in our busy life, we simply had neglected the plant. Then it started to flower profusely. We pampered it since then.

The rambutan tree

When we moved back to Kuantan after a short work stint in Senawang the rambutan tree had grown taller than the house. As it was incredibly near the house my husband decided to cut it down. This is one of his dare devils act. It was actually drizzling when he was up the tree.

Too much green...

so we bought some flowering plants. From our trip to Cameron Highlands we took back some pretty roses.

The plant Nyah gave also flowered.

These purple plants were planted by our neighbour Kak Ji. We helped pull out weeds and water them. They make beautiful border plant. Small shrub like plants. Also available with white flowers.

Picked this up from the field upfront. The color is too beautiful to resist so it ended up in our backyard. When pulling out careful not to break the plant as it breaks easily. Pull out low to include the roots.

Beautified Porch Garden

This porch is originally the car drive to the house. We later made it a porch garden with small entrance gate. On many days we placed the cloths hanging there. It get the most of the sun.

Teratai (Water Lily)

Water Lily seems to be an icon to Pahang where one can find it in abundance at Tasik Cini. We wanted to grow water plant in our pond so we bought this beautiful pink water lily. When we placed it in the pond, the flowers never made it. The fish loved it. I managed to salvage the roots and placed it aside hoping for it to grow. Today it bloomed in threes and fours!!

Weeds in the Cracks

April 2007 we moved to Seremban. We left the house empty and most of our plants died out. It was a poor sight. In the midst of the chaos the weeds in between cracks showed up beautifully...

Some unique flowers

This plant, I got from my parents place in Gombak. Very nice, small and compact. The leave can be cooked in masak lemak. However, I never tried it my self. Then one day it flowered...

This shrub has beautiful purple flowers. It looks very Mediterranean. When the flowers had died off tried to induce more flowering by dead hedging. It never did give a full flowering and just got ugly.

Then the children wanted gold fish

Water Feature

We decided to make a pond and raise Koi fish. My husband have no fish preference; just whatever fish he can get his hands on - talapia, toman etc. The suitable area would be the front corner of our front yard where the big hibiscus is. Then there's a big aloe vera type of plant there. So we decided to build the pond around the big aloe vera type plant. We will also decorate the pond with river stone we collected from Sungei Lembing. The result is not bad.

My Orchids Start to Bloom

Orchids are hard to grow. Maybe much so at a place with ocean breeze. Orchids love dampness enough sun and fertilizers. I use a lot of coconut husk with charcoal as the earlier is easy to find in Batu Hitam

Latar Belakang Rumah Kami

Rumah kami menghadap Laut China Selatan berhampiran pantai Batu Hitam. Dengan kehangatan angin pantai keadaan agak kering untuk bertanam. Namum Batu Hitam diangerahkan Tuhan dengan tanah yang hitam lagi subur.

Mula Bertanam

Masa mula-mula pindah ke rumah sendiri (1987, sewa, teres setingkat 3 bilik) saya mula menanam orkid. Ini kerana ayah saya suka menanam orkid jadi saya sendiri nak cuba rasa kenikmatannya.

Apabila sudah berumahtangga (1990), saya dan suami pindah rumah (semi-d dua tingkat 4 bilik.) Dengan laman yang lebih besar, saya dan suami berkongsi hobi menanam pokok. Dalam kesibukan kerja seharian kami menghabiskan banyak masa mengemaskini laman kami. Dengan kehadiran anak-anak kerapian laman rumput di depan rumah menjadi begitu penting. Namun kesukaran yang dihadapi ialah cepatnya rumput dan lalang yang naik. Juga kami dapati kucing jiran sering melepaskan najis di laman rumput kami. Masa ni pokok yang ada cuma pokok bunga kertas yang besar di penjuru depan. Di tepi rumah ada pohon durian belanda dan pokok kelapa. Di belakang pula ada pokok limau nipis gergasi. Pokok-pokok besar sudah memang ditanam oleh tuan rumah sebelum kami.

Saya mula bertanam dengan lebih agresif apabila menghadapi tekanan kerja lebih bermula tahun 2000.