Wednesday 2 April 2014

Outdoor Plants



If you have an outdoor garden and ready to start a landscape from scratch, you can get ideas from magazines about gardening, sources from internet or visit to any landscape nursery in vicinity to get advice. After collecting all the information, you could decide how is the design of the landscape and to choose the type of plants you want to blend into your garden, stepping stones, pebbles, water fountains, garden lights and others garden decoration items such animal character, figurine can be considered. It is entirely up to you and can add on progressively to enhance your garden. 

To make your garden beautiful, it is not an overnight work. Patience is important and effort to beautify it from time to time, regular maintenance like watering, trimming, fertilizers, pesticides to repel insects, bugs is a must. Each type of plant has its own character in terms of taking volume of water, sunlight, soil condition and nutrient. The more time you spend on gardening, you will be able to study the character of each plant. This is important as careful nurture of each plant will produce amazing result. When the flowers bloom, lush of healthy green leafs will make your garden looks beautiful.



Loropetalum chin. var. rubrum


The color of the leave turn red under full sunlight, pink color flower throughout the year and need to trim the leave regularly in order to bloom. It can be cultured into a bonsai from early stage and it looks great.Native to China, Japan and South-eastern Asia. Wikipedia

Christmas tree
The most sought after tree during the Christmas season and the size range from 30 cm - 3 meter available. During festive season this tree might be slightly costly as shopping centre, commercial shops and residence use as a decoration.
Synonym : Eugenia oleina
Scientific name : Syzygium Campanulatum origin from Indo-China. The leaf color is reddish and yellow as regular trimming will  promote new leafs turn to those colors. It can be trimmed into any shapes from hedges to triangles shape like christmas tree or bonsai type.

Alocasia Black
Leafs look like elephant ear and can grow up to at least 2 meter from the ground. Takes on full sunlight and moderate water will do once a day.

Ficus variegated
Imported from China and the leafs is variegated. This three is grafted with trunk height 3 meter. Full sunlight and it can survive without water for many days.

Jasmine dwarf bonsai
Regular trimming needed to maintain its shape, blooms all year and size of this bonsai 80 cm. Recommended for bonsai enthusiasts beginer. Though the flower is not scented but it looks nice like a 'star' shape and it blooms over the plant.





























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