Dragon Fruit Flower

Have you ever seen a dragon fruit flower before? It was my first time seeing it. Thanks to my neighbor for her love for plants! :)

I only came to know that dragon fruit flower blooms in the night from 9pm + to 11pm and it only bloom once a day. After that time, it will close up....

Here are some of the close shots that I took. Big and beautiful!

Our Beautiful Adeniums

This is one of our Adenium plant given by MIL when we moved to our new house. MIL said, these few were her most beautifully grown ones.

4 months later after we moved, the flower blossom so much. So Much. Unbelievable. It was so beautiful.. so, I thought of snapping a few shots and keep as rememberance.


Every branch that has leave, will bloom few flowers ever at the very short trunk.

Amazingly nice.




Now my house has 11 pots and all of them bloom beautifully. My neighbors too grow Adenium at their house, but is still waiting for it to bloom. Maybe, they take too much care of it. :-D

Beautiful Caterpillar

Have you ever seen a real caterpillar before it turns out to be a beautiful butterfly ? Frankly speaking, I've never in my life and this was my first time ever and it was so close.... just at my garden :-) Yes, it's this little creature on my plant.

On Sunday evening, I found my porch tiles had lots of black dots. I wondered what it was.. and my neighbor said that it's worm. I thought to myself, worm ? What worm? No legs, only black dots. I tried looking everywhere at my plant but couldn't find anything. So, I ignored.


On Monday after I get back from work, I felt something different to my Adenium plant. Seems so bright. Then only I realized that it is bold ! (below pic!) The used to be beautiful full with green leaves and flowers now became Clear ! Left only it's trunk. I was soooooO shocked.


I slowly walked to the plant and carefully examine it. I can't really go too near as the floor was scattered with black dots. (which my neighbor earlier said it was worm's poo-poo). Then I saw it. Hiding behind on of the trunk.


As soon as I saw this wriggly thing, my whole body shivered and I stood very still not knowing what to do. I continuosly shivered for about 5 mins. (Even when I'm writing this post now !) It's really eery...

I was alone and in a rush to prepare dinner before I go fetch my kids. At the same time, I'm afraid that this thing will disappear. I called Mrs. Rain for help. I know there's nothing she can do, but just to provide a listening ear. (Hoping that my goose bump will be transfered to her. LOL. :-D )
As it is so difficult to describe how big it is, I decided to snap photos to show her.

Then, I found that it's actually very beautiful. It has a glowing body.

It's body is as green as the leaves and it has some yellow spots.


Not long after, I found that my time had passed and I already had to go fetch my kids home.
Not with any surprise, Ed was not afraid. Instead adore it so much. Ern was a little hesitated, just like me. :-)


He was trying to say that the caterpillar was big.


About 7:05pm, this caterpillar is getting sleepy. :-D Drowsy eyes..


We waited for hubby's return to remove it. It's body was really soft. Must wait for it to crawl on the stick by itself.


We did not want to kill it. So, hubby took it out from the house and wanted to throw to the drain. Not sure if it will still climb back to our plants. Before hubby could do anything to it, Ed had already began begging his dad not to throw it. He wanted to have it until it turns into a butterfly.

After much begging, he won. I found him a plastic container and we kept it in.

It's body was really beautiful. The dots were neon green yellow.

Is he hungry ?

Very tame insect. The more I look at it, the more I like it. But I can't have it in my garden. It ate up my whole plant in 24Hrs !

I used a dish wrapper and cover it. I poked many holes for it to breathe. The next morning, I found it hide inside the leave and I saw many webs.. it's a bit like cocoon.. but I think it's dead. Felt sorry and sad. But I really do not know what to do with it.

Is this really a caterpillar that will turn into a beautiful butterfly ?

Bonsai, Gardening

Bonsai is a Japanese word, 盆栽. Bonsai is actually two words, "Bon", and "Sai". The word "Bon" means "tray" and "Sai", "growing" or "planting".

What I like about Bonsai is that the shape itself is like a miniature big tree. It gives me a cooling and relaxing feeling. Buying a Bonsai and keeping it at home is easy but... it is not easy to grow and manage them. Bonsai needs thorough care and it takes time to grow into a beautiful plant.

How I wish I could have many different Bonsais decorated at home. Any of the below one would be nice, isn't it?


These are special ones.. with it's trunk grew winding and made into words.
The seller told me that it take years for these to form into wording and because of that each of them costs few hundred ringgit.

I wonder if I have even only 1 of it, do I know how to take care and have it continue growing healthyly? I think I need to read more of bonsai books before I could own one.