20. OUR GARDEN - FRONT & BACK - Jan to June 2024

Our Garden
1 Jan 2024 to 30 June 2024

pic below taken 5 jan 2024


NEW!!

1- baby corn shoots from the corn cob 
(found some shoots coming out from one corn cob 
so i cut off the top part and planted into the pot)

2- chilli seeds thrown into mommy's pot about a year ago 
started sprouting! can't wait to have chillis!

3- laksa shoots from ntuc
poked stems into the pot and they sprouted leaves!

4- 9 o clock flowers - bought 25 feb 2024
bright red and yellow!! so pretty!!!

5- someone gave 3 new ceramic pots!


Updates for exisitng plants:

herbs
- my langkuas / blue ginger / galangal plant died
- kunyit - both struggling
- rosemary - half surviving, other half is turning black and drying up :(
- curry leaf plant - after pruning the top, leaves and branches are sprouting upwards
- pandan - babies sprouting, big tall pandan collapsed
- lemongrass (front) - struggling to grow, soil kinda disappeared in the pot
- lemongrass (back) - doing well!
- drumstick plant - struggling >> died suddenly march (was doing well for a while)
- limau purut tree - better after spraying with soda bicarb mix
- papaya and avocado trees - struggling
- garlic - sprouted!

flowers
- hibiscus -  attracts insects, ants and caterpillar
pruned and stem cuttings - 
- 9 o clock flowers and bougainvilla are blooming!
- dessert rose x3 - 1 seem almost dead, 1 blooming, 1 struggling
- orchid stem - roots taking forever to grow out!
- orchid flowers - used to have 3-4 flowers, now about 7 buds!
- queen of the night / keng hwa - struggling, 1 potted plant seems thriving and green

money plant x5 pots (originally 2 pots)
some pots doing well, some struggling, 
aidan's doing well in fish tank


NEW!! 9 O'Clock Flowers

25 Feb 2024
new 9 o clock flowers for $4.90










FRONT GARDEN
March 2024

2 March 2024
did a 2-3 hr gardening session after a few weeks of no gardening.
ouch, body aching all over!











FRONT GARDEN
February 2024

18 feb 2024
dunno why or how, mummy's desert rose died
kyi kyi chopped off the roots and repotted only the stem cuttings 
(i didn't know until all was done)
hard to tell if the stem cuttings will revive and grow...



14 Feb 2024







FRONT GARDEN
January 2024

30 Jan 2024




29 jan 2024




27 jan 2024




26 jan 2024



24 Jan 2024
laksa leaf and corn plant doing well!
pandan and avocado also!



21 Jan 2024
looks like my rosemary plant died (1/2 of original plant)
other 1/2 rosemary plant still surviving!



19 Jan 2024
ordered more potting soil!! yay!
found some fat heavy caterpillars on my curry leaf plant!
pruned the hibiscus plant and hope to grow new plants from stem cuttings.
threw some fertilisers for the flowering plants
did some weeding
rosemary - 1 part of the plant is so dead and black LOL
money plant leaves turning yellow






16 Jan 2024













12 Jan 2024




10 Jan 2024









7 Jan 2024
is it my imagination - or has the corn plant grown much taller today?


6 Jan 2024
hibiscus has 3 huge flowers!






5 Jan 2024 fri
kyi kyi is helping me in the garden!





left to right - laksa leaves, pandan, papaya (hahaha), corn, avocado





trying to revive this orchid stem :/
nothing happening much and it's been months!!







4 Jan 2024



3 Jan 2024






BACK GARDEN
March 2024



BACK GARDEN
February 2024


28 Feb 2024





4 Feb 2024
pandan sprouts are so cute!




BACK GARDEN
January 2024

19 Jan 2024








5 Jan 2024



3 Jan 2024




ok about some of my individual plants...


Pandan
i have so many pandan plants now.
most are still babyish

below: 2 march 2024 (hotter weather)
pruned a bit of the pandan leaves on top
hopefully both won't collapse




below: Feb 2024
somehow didn't take pics of the other pandan plants


feb 2024
back garden pandan
recovering from the collapse LOL




below: Jan 2024
front garden pandan




below: 19 jan 2024
back garden pandan









Curry Leaf Plant

below: 2 march 2024


below: 19 Feb 2024




how to prune curry leaf plant...
oops, i didn't prune the plant earlier :(((





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