Apr 03 2011
I grew up in the 1960′s when we didn’t have TV in our home. I would spend hours looking at the little cacti that my mother planted grow in size, length and height or just multiplied in numbers. I would mentally take note of the mother cactus, father cactus and the baby cacti. Often these [...]
Mar 10 2011
My late mother would save all the tin cans from the can foods that we sometimes consumed. First she would remove the labels of the cans if possible. She would then use a nail and hammer to make small holes in them. These would then be filled with soil and broken pieces of bricks or [...]
Feb 13 2011
Gardening is a passion that my late mother had passed on to me as a child. I can still remember the hours I spent with her in the garden, pruning, trimming, potting, re-potting, positioning, repositioning the many varieties of plants all around the garden for them to thrive best. From my observation and her work, [...]
Jun 07 2010
I’m glad I received a lot of positive feedback on the post about my transformed garden. Before the facelift, it looked much like a jungle – in a housing estate. Fancy that! How did my garden get to this state? Here is how it happened… In December last year, before leaving for Tasmania on a [...]
Jun 06 2010
With the stumps of the palm trees finally gone, I started to work on giving my garden a facelift, the first time in 2 years. Firstly, I had to flatten the ground to even level. Then I laid black pebbles onto the flattened ground. My good friend Angela was kind enough to let me have [...]