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A beautiful surprise today: first time ever for me to see this bromeliad, Earth Star (Cryptanthus bivittatus) bloom! At first I thought t...

On humdrum weekends in the midst of the monsoon season, when it's just about to be almost dragging to consider going back to the city ...

Among the crown jewels of the Philippine rainforest, naturally growing only in our islands, is what is perhaps the most captivating ...

Over time, we have collected quite a substantial variety of medinillas; flowering tropical plants that popularly have pendulous, chandelie...

Finally, after a looooong wait, one of the centerpieces in the front lawn has finally flowered! It's such a slow grower that I did not...

One of the pleasant things the wet season brings are the simple yet pretty pink flowers of rain lilies. For much of the year, the narrow, ...

From a single cutting from an uncle's garden more than two years ago, we finally have grown into a flowering bush the strikingly-red J...

 It's been more than two years since we've planted epiphytes on the mango trees and this season, two plants whose names I don...

A beautiful, small tree that flowers generously is this Desert Cassia (Senna polyphylla), originally from the Caribbean. The slender bran...

Flowering profusely now is the Firespike Plant (Odontonema strictum), looking gorgeously-red this Christmastime. Its flowers which are on...

Hoya incrassata Another Philippine jewel from the local rainforests is Hoya, a group of vines and plants from the Asclepias family wit...

Two plants, totally unrelated but contrast each other in the gardens. Both of them look curiously unusual, and are colored from opposite ...

I would periodically browse through amazon.com's site and window-shop for good deals, enjoying going through some selected pages as if...

On the other hand, we also grow other banana varieties for landscaping and decorative purposes. All bananas, edible or otherwise, bel...

Fragrant trees, now heavy with blooms are Champáca ( Michelia alba , above) and Ylang-ýlang ( Cananga odorata , below). Both tropical t...

Three fragrant flowers, lately in bloom: above left, gardenia ( rosál , Gardenia jasminoides); above right, white ginger ( cámia , H...

Hibiscus cultivar/Gumamela Pachystachys lutea/Candle Flower Beautiful tropical plants in sunny yellow, standing out in the...

Planted around the gardens are trees that produce fragrant flowers, and among the more prominent ones are frangipanis ( Plumeria , Tag. k...