When I moved in to this house 19 October last year, a friend gave a house warming present - flower from her garden. I planted this plant at the right hand corner of the fence in front of my house. I never really took care of it. I planted it there, and watered it whenever I remembered to do so. But most of the time, the plant got its water from mother nature... But last week, I noticed a bud... and today a full bloom... I looked in the net and found the name of the plant is
Heliconia psittacorum x H. marginata
Thank You Aliza...
When I moved in to the first house I ever bought in 1994, my father gave this plant. My maids (I had a series of them) were the ones who really took care of it. When the last one returned to Indonesia in December 2005, nobody really looked after my plants. Many died. This one almost died... the day that I moved out of that house last year was the day that I noticed that it almost died. I took it to my new house and put it in the sun so that if I forget to water it, it would be able to bathe in and drink rain water...
Bourgenvilla or bunga kertas or in Perak it is known as bunga bulang... my late mother's passion... She had rows and rows of them in many different colours and species in the front compound of our house in Perak... some even had different colours on the same branch... my late father too shared the same hobby, and he was the one responsible "marrying" the different colours of flowers in one tree...
Earlier this year when I went to my sister's house, I noticed she also had many pots of the flowers in her compound and I said to her that it was nice that she took after mom's hobby. She replied "actually I took all these from our house in the kg...". That brought tears to my eyes... I sat there in between the flowers and trying to smell the flowers... Later, before I went back to Shah Alam, I asked my sister for some branches (or is called stick?) so that I could plant them... I planted them in 2 pots and both are growing healthy... the above is one of them... just cant wait for the flowers to appear....
Earlier this year when I went to my sister's house, I noticed she also had many pots of the flowers in her compound and I said to her that it was nice that she took after mom's hobby. She replied "actually I took all these from our house in the kg...". That brought tears to my eyes... I sat there in between the flowers and trying to smell the flowers... Later, before I went back to Shah Alam, I asked my sister for some branches (or is called stick?) so that I could plant them... I planted them in 2 pots and both are growing healthy... the above is one of them... just cant wait for the flowers to appear....
Hi Oldfren,
ReplyDeleteSorry lama tak jrnguk your blog. It used to be without any new entry, so I guess I stopped coming, then I was busy in my own world too.
Perak is known for their bougainvilla. When I was in Ipoh for 5 yrs, I too had a good collection of them. Onm Sunday or Saturday mornings I would go to the nursery or Pasar Tani (at the stadium) to get "more collection" of the flowers. Yes, different colors on the same branch. I remember the famous ones being "merah cabai" and "putih singapore".
I think in malay it's called "bunga belulang", with refeence to the cowhide.
BTW, it's nice to see you blogging again.