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Lantana

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on August 9, 2014

Lantana beside the rice paddies in Batad rice terraces

A flower that grows in the wild, (like most flowers in the wilderness) is more beautiful than those in well tended gardens.

Lantana in Malapascua Island, Northern Cebu

Closer look of a cluster of tiny flowers

Garden, Plant flower, lantana, shrub, weed, wilderness

Multipurpose Cauldron

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on July 22, 2014

Caldero repurposed as ornamental plant container to beautify the unexciting steps of this mountain inn

Garden, Ifugao, Repurposing Batad, caldero, cauldron, plant container, reuse

Green Eggplant

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on July 20, 2014

Nine months ago, I got couple of eggplant seedlings from a palengke vendor in Tagaytay. Turns out to be green eggplant which is even better.

I’ve planted the seedling in one container only but so far it yielded 6 green eggplants already and still continues to flower.

Garden, Produce container gardening, green eggplant, seedling, vegetable

Golasiman

2 Comments Posted by Lana on June 10, 2014

Golasiman shows its beauty and generosity a few hours each day in its happiest time - when the sun is up . See the tiny bee? He too is happy

Everyday, the flowers will open when the sun is up. A signal for the tiny bees to feed and a pretty sign for me to leave for the office. A few hours afterwards, the flowers will close while the plant continues to worship the sun throughout the day.

Very easy to propagate, just cut and plant. It will then root. See the tiny bees in the yellow ones?

A closer look of the flower and its edible leaves

Garden, Metro Manila, Plant golasiman, Portulaca oleracea, purslane, vegetable, weed

Facade Garden

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on April 15, 2014

Vertical garden

Garden, Japan, Structure Tokyo, vertical garden

Mother-in-Law’s Tongue

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on April 7, 2014

Mother-in-law's tongue in a pot. Very easy to grow and propagate

Mother-in-law's tongue as ornamentation in Angkor Empress Hotel, Siem Reap

As seen near the giant butaka, Isabela. Such a very resilient ornamental plant that needs little water and grows in poor soil condition

Garden, Plant mother-in-law's tongue, ornamental, Plant

Kulitis

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on March 8, 2014

Kulitis plant (amaranth) in my tiny container garden, my source of green leafy vegetable for viands such as tinolang isda, munggo soup (with malunggay from garden), tinolang manok and for anything else that needed leaves. This plant grows anywhere even in poor soil condition. Not so many know it’s edible. My neighbor says it’s a weed understandably because kulitis is such an underutilized crop in the country.

Repurposed bamboo from binungey kakanin I had in Bolinao as container for my kulitis plant

Edible plants such as kulitis is my kind of vegetable, those warm weather ones, those pinakbet and Bahay Kubo ones that grow in lowlands and not those lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, not those highland high value sort, you know those Ceasar salad kind even if I live and work in the city.