Issue 5 of National Parks Board’s e-newsletter has been published. One of my team members at work, Pearl Ho and I contributed three articles to the newsletter’s gardening section.
Hoyas: Say A-hoy To Low-Maintenance!
The first article is one written by myself on hoyas. A handful of hoyas are common houseplants available for sale in local nurseries. Either available as a vine or shrub, hoyas produce very pretty flowers which are also sometimes fragrant. A small number of species are admired for their leaves. Click on the following link to read on!
http://www.nparks.gov.sg/mygreenspace/hoyas-say-a-hoy-to-low-maintenance/
Container Gardening: A Sense Of Proportion
The second article is on container gardening by Pearl Ho. Container gardening is the growing and arrangement of a selection of plants inside a suitable receptacle and in an aesthetically-pleasing manner. That sounds easy but how many of us know how to put this entire set-up together properly? One of the most important pointers is the proportion of the plants and the container. Read this article to find out more!
http://www.nparks.gov.sg/mygreenspace/container-gardening-proportion/
Let There Be Light!
The article is written by myself too and it is on the topic of sunlight that is required by green plants for healthy growth. It is often taken for granted, if not, misunderstood. Many of us place our plants in an environment with the wrong light intensity or duration and that often results in poor growth and brings about a series of cultivation problems. In this article, I attempt to inform the reader the importance of intensity and duration of sunlight and how one can determine these two factors without resorting to buying expensive equipment.
http://www.nparks.gov.sg/mygreenspace/let-there-be-light/
Sowing Seeds Of Friendship At Lakeside Grove
The last article was contributed by my colleague from the Community in Bloom Branch. Maxel shared the community gardening experience at Lakeside Grove, a private housing estate in western Singapore. This particular gardening group has an interesting gardenscape consisting of a miniature Chinese-themed garden, owing the close proximity of their housing estate to the nearby Chinese Garden.
http://www.nparks.gov.sg/mygreenspace/sowing-seeds-of-friendship-at-lakeside-grove/
Hi Wilson: First of all, thanks for your informative blog. I came upon this when I searched for Indian borage, a plant which I got but didn’t know its name. Many books in the bookstore are about plants and herbs of the western hemisphere and very few, if any, on tropical plants. I am very pleased to have found your blog
. I am an avid gardener and like you, the interest was sparked when I was 11 or 12 and could hold a hoe and fiddle with it in the little plot of earth outside my family terrace house. I now have my own house, a ground floor apartment with a bit of space behind the house so I am keen to rekindle my gardening again. I shall be back to check on your other plant posts.