Garden Make-over

Came weekend, and we went nursery-hopping at Sungai Buloh :) 

We came to love nursery-hopping after moving into our current home. But still we do not do this every weekend. Right day, right time; this is one activity that we really enjoy. We spent close to five hours driving around and popping in and out of the nurseries. It was only when the skylight started to filter out did we realised it was almost 7pm.

Our trophies:

• Enough succulents to cover the tail of the garden. We wanted to model portion of the garden to what we saw at Gardens by the Bay - lots of succulents.

• Enough white and yellow marigolds to cover the other portion of the front part of the garden. Marigolds need plenty of direct sun, and they bloom without the need for fertiliser. This is a plant that is supposedly to be very easy to maintain. Just water nearer to the soil instead of over the bloom. It thrives even in bad soil condition as long as there is water and the soil is well drain. 

• Some green oval shaped, low growing plants that hubby might like if they continue to stay low. No idea what is the name of it, but they complement the marigolds well. Something that we saw at Gardens by the Bay too. 

• Water hyacinth; our bonus! This has become our cultivating pot, and hopefully we can have not just more hyacinth but some guppy babies too :) As I googled more on hyacinth, pretty surprised to find water hyacinth is considered as a pest plant. Mainly because it is very invasive, and could cover the entire water body in a short period of time. This causes sun deficiency; aquatic plants below water surface could die and the fishes are not able to get their supply of oxygen too. Hence, never throw these plants into a water body. 

• Got some pretty glass bubbles recently, and we wanted to get some air plants for it. We did not find the air plant that we wanted at Sungai Buloh, but we found it at another nursery. A pretty blooming air plant :) After the bloom, we would most probably break up the cluster into individual plant to put it into the glass bubbles. 

I am not able to get a nice wide shoot of the entire garden, so have decided to do without it instead. 

The marigolds are right at the front, the water hyacinth is in the center and the succulents at the tail of the garden. The air plant is hanging some where at the further end of the succulents, near the wall. 

We still have our basil and pomegranate around, and we intend to check out the Vietnam apple tree soon!