A free flow of photographs of my Ginger plants

You'll have noticed by now that I haven't really mentioned anything about my evergreen money plant ... Perhaps it was repotted on a dampy sort of soil which has a very strong stench of urea, and it doesn't catch on much sunlight at its location, it wasn't growing vigorously... Since its progression was somewhat slow-going or passive, I had as a result, overlooked it...

By the time it was being brought down to the community garden, it was too late as it seems to have died even though the RC member (an elderly aunty with green fingers) repotted it & placed it at a supposedly ideal location.

We trim off a section of the "tendrils" where the baby leaves were growing out from & placed it in a bowl of water with oyster shells & those of the giant, deep-sea scallop which we brought home after a huge feast of seafood buffet at shangrila hotel.

Surprisingly, under my hubby's somewhat negligent style of care, the money plant is surviving even though we did notice that it seems to have inherited the jaundiced appearance of the parent plant!

The leaves that grew out didn't look dark greenish.  Instead, they had a yellowy tinge to their leaves as illustrated in the photographs below:

It doesn't look as yellowy in the photographs.  However, in reality, the leaves had a yellowy appearance.

Perhaps the cause for the jaundice appearance is a result of a lack of sunlight?

Here's a free flow of my ginger plants in bloom ...  It's a feast to one's eyes when we set our sight on them! :)

Oh dear, editing using the Aviary Tool is soooooooooo user unfriendly & slow-moving with unexpected alignment issues when editing that I had to forgo water-marking my photographs with copyright. :(





The story of My "tree" musketeers - Signs of ailing health

After pruning off stalks which had aged beyond their ability for further growth, we were pretty relieved that new shoots had made its way out of the surface of the soil.

However, we did notice that these new shoots aren't as healthy as before because one of them came up with holes "burnt" into the stem as shown in the photograph below.




The rest of the green shoots seemed to have a reasonably healthy appearance as shown in the photographs attached below:

The Yellow ladybird - A faithful friend of my ailing plants

This regular visitor who is a friendly companion to my "Ginger" plants was seen frequently by myself.


Isn't it cute?

Doesn't it remind us all of the Volkswagen beetle as shown here in the photograph below?


Disclaimer: I do not own the photograph featuring the Volkswagen yellow bettle as shown above. Kindly give full credits to the owners of this image. Thank you.


More photographs of my "Ginger" plants in a state of blooming :

The Olive-backed Sunbirds' feast

There was a great feast for those olive-backed sunbirds today.

A hole which is clearly seen on every flower is a clear indication that the sunbird/s had already extracted the nectar. I believe they did it by "drilling" (piercing) a hole into the bud with their long sharp, needle-like beak.


After a heavy downpour yesterday, we were surprised that the "Ginger" plants were blooming vigorously. And as usual, we didn't manage to take any snapshots of the birds becox they would fly off the minute they sense any movements near the plants.

Even though the photographs of our "ginger" plants were repetitive in style, we hope that viewers would enjoy them as much as we do.

 

The Demise of Picnik

It took me quite a while to figure out which editing tool I should be going for after the demise of the Picnik. And with my busy work schedule, it was tough to upload photographs as they could be pretty time consuming when editing is involved.

Finally, I settled down on Picasu & am still fiddling with the software on my desktop. And I hope it doesn't introduce any bugs into my computer.

I'm still trying to fine-tune my editing skills using Picasa but am still fumbling with some of its functions while going "blank" upon revisiting the program on my desktop.



Having pangs of regrets that Picnik is gone for good. :(

A hopeless struggle against Symphylans ...

Although my plants do have freshly bloomed flower buds which are "harvested" by the olive-backed sunbirds within a day of its appearance, it is sad to notice that the green leaves were infested with fungal spots as shown clearly in the photograph attached below:



Those yellow fungal spots were akin to skin diseases for plants & aren't curable. A strong & effective fungicide would have to be applied thinly on the leaves regularly to control the fungal condition.

The latest photographs of flowers that sprung out of the "scales" of the red "corns".





Although it isn't blooming as vigorously as before, having some flower buds is better than not having any at all.

So we've just got to take comfort in being complacent with the existing situation. We're keeping our fingers crossed that these plants wouldn't die on us...

Struggling against Symphylans (pests) ...

After repeated attempts to till the soil & pruning away many "dead" stalks of the "ginger" plants, I observed that there were improvements even though the plants aren't as healthy & lush in its growth as compared to the past.

These are some of the recent collection of its blooms for the past 1 month: