Date: 3 May 2024
Best picks of the Season
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Hibiscus schizopetalus - Coral Hibiscus. Spectacular weeping tree hibiscus, rare and hard to find. Grows rapidly and blooms freely. Flowers look like parachutes and can be recognized by the fringed and lacy petals which are bent backward. It has slender and gracefully curved stems. Can be trained into a showy standard.
Cestrum nocturnum - Night blooming jasmine. Garden favorite - the sweetest fragrance at night is intoxicating. One of the most famous and desirable fragrant plants. Flowers are pale yellow to white, open at night and stay extremely fragrant until sunrise. These flowers are widely used in India and other countries of South Asia for perfumery, medicinal applications and in religious ceremonies. Best location will be near driveway, window or entrance, where the magic fragrance can be appreciated.
Juanulloa aurantiaca - Gold Finger plant, Mexican Spoon Flower - this one is soooo pretty! Unusual looking vine or shrub with yellow-orange fleshy flowers, everblooming and a VERY fast growing. Rare, collectible plant.
Tabernaemontana Flore Pleno - Crape Jasmine, Carnation of India, Florida Gardenia - this fast growing bush with waxy leaves and beautiful fragrant flowers is a must in tropical garden. Easy to grow and free flowering, dense bush.
Microsorum musifolium - Alligator Fern, Crocodile Fern from Australasia. Perfect for shade! An epiphytic fern with cool alligator-skin looking leaves. The strikingly shaped, light green fronds of the fern form a lovely backdrop to its stunning stiff, leathery, dark green alligator-skin foliage. Perfect as a houseplant, or planted under a tree. Grows to 2-3 ft in height and likes a sheltered, semi-shaded location, no direct sunlight.
Date: 2 May 2024
Cat of the Day - Gutalin a.k.a Google.
Google knows everything. He is our oldest cat (born 2007), and recently started cloning himself because he can't find helpers as smart as he is. Do you know the feeling? Hold that thought. Good night for now... 🌜
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Date: 6 May 2024
Cat of the Day - Ricki
Find yourself a comfortable spot like Ricki did - he likes hanging out on a grill. Cool or hot, it's all good. Good night.🌜
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Date: 7 May 2024
Cat of the Day - Shaka
One day a feral cat had given birth to a kitten on our front porch, but the mother had left and not returned...
Find out what happened next...
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Date: 13 Jun 2024
The truth about Ladybugs in your garden life
🐞 The truth about Ladybugs in your garden life
❓ Q: I have Ladybugs in my garden, I wonder if they are eating my plants? Do I need to get rid of them?
🐞 Ladybug (Harmonia axyridis) is, in fact, one of the best insects you can find in your garden, it is a natural predator that takes care of many bad bugs, including aphids
🐞 Keep Ladybugs happy and bring them to your garden!
🐞 Ladybugs actually are cultivated as natural pest control, and you can even buy them for your yard, instead of chemicals!
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1. Love life of Ladybugs
2. Ladybug larvae eating aphids.
3. One of our #PeopleCats, "innocent" Ladybug (a.k.a. Bug) is wondering who else she can bug next...
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