Rose collection - new blooms Sep2009

my 7-sister rose has bloomed! the flowers are fragrant with a sweet smell ... *swee* or not


and the mini rose ... see the number of blooms? there are 14! whoh ...

Tiramisu Sep2009

My sis in law and I decided to try to make tiramisu, so I got a recipe from a forum friend Scatterseed. The recipe is very simple and my sis in law was so amazed we manage to do it so easily.

the result? not too bad, except the base ladyfingers were a little too wet (we thought they are not soft enough and added extra coffee to soften them).

and next time, we will try to use kahlua instead of baileys and see if the taste will be better.

Episcia collection

I also collect several types of episcia ... their leaves are nice and recently, they gave lots of blooms. easy plants that need little attention

Tropical Topaz - light green shiny leaves with yellow flowers

Warpaint - leaves with purple shade and red flowers

suomi - dark green leaves with yellow flowers

lil lemon - light green fury leaves with pink flowers

cute or not?

Rose collection - update (Sep 09)

my best performer rose. This lilac / purple one has been doing very well.

this is the pot with dark red flowers, but dont know why the new bloom is more pinkish. see the long stem? that comes from the original stem and not the grafted one, so I had to cut it away.

I killed my 1st pot of 7-sister rose and this is the 2nd pot. still a baby one but still doing well with new shoots and new buds.

this is the stripe one. I attended a talk on roses and was advised to trim away all the flower buds and some leaves. and now, they are growing really good! so many flower buds leh.

some tips for growing roses in Spore:

- need at least 4hrs of sun

- soil must be well drained and will not cause roots to rot

- pest control is impt. common pests are red spider mites and thrips.

African Violet collection - new ones

I had this AV since april and it has been the best performer. the blooms are continuous and extremely pretty.

as most of my AVs are in their greens only, decided to get a new pot so as to get some flowers. this is a common pinkish purple one.

this is the first time I seen a pin-wheel colored one! it is known as "chimera" and they say if too hot, the blooms might revert back to the normal purple. so I kept it in office to enjoy aircon.

Rose collection - update Aug 09

I got myself another 2 new pots of roses recently. 1 pot with dark red flowers

and the other with mini bloom of red stripe

My Rose Collection

Remb my lilac rose? It has not died on me yet. Although the weather has been very hot recently, it managed to re-bloom 2 days ago ... swee bo?


Then I got this very special 7-sister rose. Why it is called "7-sis"? actually I also not too sure. But look at the roses, arent they sweet?



close up of the flowers. If you stick the roses close to your nose, the faint fragance is heaven!