Oh My Cacti!

Last Sunday Hubby and I went to plants and flowers gardens located at the West Bound Terminal in Bulua, Cagayan de Oro City with main purpose to buy garden soil, because we wanted to re-pot the flowering plants that we've bought at Lim Ket Kai (will be posted soon).

While exploring the area I landed in a garden with a lot of orchids that were flourishing with colorful flowers. I was so attracted with them and decided to enter the garden, curious what more it offers. To may surprise the garden was bigger than I expected and inside it has a vast collection of cacti. Yep! there were lots and lots of cacti displayed that definitely made me awed! 

From large to small potted cacti of different shape and form, they were all there. I wanted to take home one or two of the cacti, but hesitated because hubby will surely disagree. I already tossed P1000.00 a day before for gerberas, stargazers and malaysian mums, enough na muna yun!

 

I wonder how much they were, I never bothered asking, mahirap na! 

I settled in photographing them instead, regretting not having my DSLR with me I could have taken more high resolution and clearer photos. Aarrgh!

Next time, I make sure to bring her along with me when I visit the garden. After all the owner was nice enough to let me take pictures, I'm sure she will let me take some again.

Photos taken using Samsung Galaxy S2 Smartphone.

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Macro Croton Flower

I was searching the internet for the international name of this very common colorful houseplant locally known as "San Francisco" here in the Philippines and luckily found it in better homes and gardens (bhg) plant encyclopedia. Her international name is "Croton" a colorful shrub with leathery leaves that grows from 1 to 6 feet tall and her special feature is her attractive and colorful foliage.

I thought this very common plant does not bloom, but on March 6, 2010 while spending the day at Taytay Swimming Pool, I came across bushes of croton and found them to be blooming with tiny star like flower. Good thing hubby and I brought our DIY macro lens and ring light and took a close-up shot of this pretty star flowers.

Here it is and hope you like how I took it...


This is my Mellow Yellow Monday and Macro Monday for today.

By the way this is one of the vast species of croton plant that I have took last year.


Enjoy!

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Pretty Vinca

I have been a slacker in updating my blog the past 3 days if I counted it right, I been busy at work and busy doing nothing at home. haaaaaaaaaaaay!

Anyways, I mentioned in my last post that I’ll be hunting another sunset this weekend but sad to say the sun seems to play hide and seek with me. The sky is too cloudy again. No sunset insight again. Grrrrrrrrr!

Hope I can catch him soon... cross-fingers!

Since I don’t have a sunset shot for today, I'm going back to one of my favorites, FLOWERS!

Hello VINCA!

Vinca is an annual plant, meaning it can tolerate variety of conditions and all throughout the year it can deliver pretty flowers. This pretty vinca can grow from 6 to 16 inches tall, it is easy to grow and a drought tolerant.

My share of tropical rose vinca and pretty in white vinca.

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Who Wants some Beefsteaks?

Don’t be fooled by the title guys, most likely it implies food right?

Buzzzzzz WRONG!

Today I won’t be posting and talking about food but rather an annual plant called a “beefsteak plant”.

Beefsteak plant grows form 1-3 feet tall and is incredibly adaptable in both sun and shade. These attractive foliage offers beautifully variegated leaves great for containers, beds and borders on landscape.

Where did I got this one? hmmm Ah! One of my shots at Cagayan de Oro Botanical Garden infront of Lim Ket Kai MAll.

Simply Colorful! Enjoy!

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