Creeper or Climber Plants

Landscaping plants is the main objective that made up of a beautiful garden. The plants that range from scrubs, flowerbed, trees, hedges and creepers. Landscaping a garden shall relies on the plants being utilized and let’s discuss on the creeper plant.                                                                                                       

Any plants that creep on the ground and crawl on walls, pergolas, arches, porches, trellises and pillars. Creeping plants develop in a different way from other plant types. These plant  are a part of the plant's natural reproductive phase, an ability that allows them to grow new, independent plants and ability to clones the originating plant. The creeper plant spread out rather than growing up vertically, scattering along the ground and root grows together as they move. Generally, creepers are good ground covers. Below are some examples of creeper plant :

Mandevilla

Bauhinia Kockiana

Madam Jealousy

If you have some plants that are placed near each other, and the one of them is a creepers, then the leafs will certainly overspread after sometime. To overcome this problem, prune them regularly, or you can place them distance from other plants so that they will not clone themselves fast.

One of the things that's quite surprising with these creeper is the speed in which they establish themselves. Some species can clone within a matter of days, which can infest other pots even before you aware of it. If the creeper plant is left alone, few weeks later, the leafs of the creeper may tangled with other plants and you may find that it is difficult  to remove once they have successfully spread.. This becomes a problem if you'd like to separate the plants.

Ficus Pumila

Allamanda

Morning glory

Clitoria Ternatea

Most creeper plants can take on full sunlight and grow to the direction of the sunlight. Clitoria ternatea have a long, slender stem that trails and climbs by winding itself about a support or a mesh wire or other similar structure.

Thunbergia

Thunbergia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae, native to tropical regions of Africa, Madagascar and southern Asia. Its members are known by various names, including thunbergias; clockvine on its own usually refers to Thunbergia grandiflora, while Thunbergia alata is often known as Black-eyed Susan vine.

The above are the common examples of creeping plants that grow in the gardens. As for ground covers, the creepers on the ground will add beautiful background to the plants. Besides that, these creepers will also minimize weeds from growing into the compound. Creepers do not only add beauty to your garden, they also maintain the clean and neat surrounding of the garden. To choose which creepers to grow is dependent on your garden design. To have an attractive and beautiful garden with the correct design, you can hire landscaper specialists to help you design your garden.

Aquatic plant

Aquatic plants  need plenty of sunlight to grow eg lotus, waterlily, water lalang, water orchid, water canna, water bamboo, etc. Lotus prefer to stay in calm water in order to flower and need to replace fresh water daily otherwise the leaf will not be healthy. Lotus prefer to grow in muddy or soggy condition. The new leaf come out frm the  soil gradually and stay on the water surface before the stem elevate further away frm the water surface. The round leaf grows bigger and taller after a few days and you will find multiple stems in a  pot. 

Tiny leaf emerge from the surface

After few days leaf becomes round

Leaf grow broader

 Lotus stem shoot up from  surface

Lotus fully grown in pot

Taking care of aquatic plants is more flexible for watering compare soil base plant as long as there is excess water storing on the pot but for soil base plant you need to water the plants at a right timing as delay in watering will cause the plant suffer dehydration. But for aquatic plant, water contain in the pot is enough for the plant consumption between 2-3 days. Besides that, extra precaution need to be taken care of as it provide a breeding ground for mosquitos to lay eggs. We suggest you to monitor it from time to time, you can replace it with fresh water twice a week, or apply abate powder once a month. If you don’t have enough time to replace fresh water this is the ideal way to prevent the mosquito larvae from spreading. Rearing miniature fish in the pot will also help to prevent it.

Water Lily

Pegaga

Cycprus

Sakura/Water Orchid

Water Canna

Ficus bonsai (variegated)

2m height 'S' shape ficus 

50cm height 'ball shape'
 ficus

2.8m height 

50cm height double trunk

Bougainvillea Bonsai

Bougainvillea Bonsai is grafted to provide a 'matured tree' in multiple colors in a shortest time.Due to the demand in the market, the grower search for a suitable tree trunk to be ready for grafting.More colors grafted in a bougainvillea tree make it more attractive compare to a single color.

Single color Bougainvillea

2.8m height 2 colors Bougainvillea

1.8m height 3 colors Bougainvillea

Bougainvillea flower - white,red, purple and orange

Grafted bougainvillea multiple colors

The Bougainvillea bonsai is tropical plant in nature and needs plenty sunlight but you should be careful so that the bonsai must be water twice a day. Bougainvillea bonsai will blooms all year long in a hot climate country. Proper care is necessary to maintain the health of the bougainvillea. Watering, sunlight, fertilizer, temperature, repotting and trimming are all important factors in determining health and outlook of the bonsai .

Bougainvillea is a tropical plant and therefore it also likes to be in direct and adequate sunlight. However be careful of not letting your bonsai to experience dehydration. This will in turn damage its leafs and flowers. However, during the flowering period regular watering ensures better result. To induce flower, you can apply fertilizer for the bougainvillea plant with phosphorus, iron and magnesium. One of the method  that will help your bonsai to look good throughout the year is regular pruning. Pruning the bonsai every month throughout the year will enhance new growth especially when the plant is young. This will ensure in promoting a leafy plant. Cut the branches if you think that it has overgrown.      Besides pruning the branches, if the roots are growing bigger, you have to prune the roots and replant it in a bigger pot. 

Keeping the bonsai alive is exciting and fun. All you need is your time, effort and care, attention and your personal touch for the plant. Allocate your  time and your bonsai will give you in return beauty, color and joy.

60cm height 2 colors and variegated leave

Desert Rose

Desert Rose or Adenium in scientific is a type of plant easily grow in tropical weather and it have variety colors available in the market. Price is reasonnable range frm miniature plant size below 150 mm (RM10). If you would like to go for the medium size 200mm - 300mm it wouldn't be costly too (RM 28.00 - RM68.00) depending on the colors and the size of the root too.

Root is visibles when Adenium is matured

Indoor Fountains

Nowadays, indoor fountain is becoming more popular as part of the home decoration.The water flow in the fountain produces sound which could calm and relax our mind. To display the indoor fountain at home is a straight forward task, infact the installation can be D.I.Y. It consists of a water pump,submersible light (optional), a fountain stand and the main bowl with jugs, pots all have been assembled. Just fill in the water in the main bowl until the water has submerged the water pump entirely. At last, all you need is to connect the water pump plug the electricity supply and the fountain system will start to run.
  

Those days, fountains were always meant to display outdoor especially near the garden but nowadays, you will also find the water fountains as a part of the interior decoration too. Considering with limited space for indoors, the water fountains have designed in a smaller version. It is exciting to have a candle light dinner while listening to the sound of flowing water.

According to the feng shui (geomancy), the fountain display in the right position will help in the flow of positive energy and wealth.If the surrounding is too quiet, the silence can be softly broken by the mellow humming water sound flowing from fountain. Indoor are available in various sizes according to the available space. Choosing the right size of the fountain  that can be kept on table tops is necessary.

When you are faced with  the task of looking for the fountain for your house or patio, you will have to get the right kind of size and  must be able to distinguish between the different categories of water fountains. Some of the categories of water fountains are categorized as wall water fountain, table top, garden, floor, pond, and indoor.

According to Feng Shui water that flows
 constantly and gently is believed to release
Chi or positive energy.

The flowing water sound brings a sense of soothing and relax feeling and can help to calm our mind.   In this hustle bustle of life, we hardly have enough time get close to nature and urbanization too has distance us from nature.In order to take a short break off the rush hour, the sense and the sound of the rolling waters of a fountain is quite a good option.