My vitex trifolia’s flowers have finally bloomed. For a plant which is reputed to be a superb mozzie repellent, its flowers are delicately-plumed and a graceful purple. And they’re pretty tiny!
I pruned the plant the other day and gave three cuttings to a fellow GCSer. Methinks they’d root pretty well.
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Archive for the ‘Basil’ Category
27 May
(Blooming) Vitex trifolia | General updates
12 Apr
(Update)
Sometimes, left alone to grow on their own, plants seem to grow a lot more happily and a lot lusher than if we were to fuss over them every tiny bit. That’s the lesson I’ve learnt.
Of course, I still do the almost-daily checks for pests and stuff, but generally, my regieme is to water once [...]
24 Mar
(Harvesting) Mulberries, local lettuce | (Composting) Garbage Enzyme
Pretty purple flower on the Italian Genovese basil, which I snipped off after two days of admiring it. I’m too lazy to propagate by seeds. Stem cuttings work so much better and faster.
The absolutely ripe mulberries. =)
After reading about garbage enzyme on a thread at Green Culture Singapore, I finally collected enough green scraps from [...]
15 Jan
Filler post
Went to buy a pack of “Spinach Banyan” from Shop and Save. Have chosen the five strongest root stalks out after cutting the leaves away.
Three went into the soil, two into the hydroponics solution.
Let’s see if I can grow spinach that way…
Propagating my mints as well.
Waiting for more of the seeds of cinammon basil I’d [...]
10 Dec
Wednesday update
I never realized how prolific mints can become. Take, for example, the pineapple, orange, and chocolate mints. I’d brutally trimmed them back quite a bit for propagation purposes only last week, and today, I saw that they’ve grown even taller than they were before, sprawling all over the sides of the pots. Roots have also [...]
15 Oct
Wednesday pre-work update
Focusing on edibles this morning before I went to work. They’re growing relatively well.
My rosemary plant and closeup.
Eau de cologne mint.
African violet babies.
Potato.
Onions/spring onions.
Live sphagnum moss on a lyer of dried sphagnum moss.
Lady’s fingers seedlings.
Seedlings I germinated for people – cinammon basil, catnip, lemon basil, lemon mint.
My own batch of seelings.
19 Aug
Tuesday update
My creeping thyme, common thyme and lemon mint seedlings.
Cinammon basil seedlings I believe.
My drosera paradoxa seems to be getting more offshoots. XD
14 Aug
Lemon basil | Mulberry | True Dill | Coleus | Cat’s whiskers
Seeds on my cat’s whiskers plant.
Flowers of the lemon basil, which I snipped off and stuck in the soil again – I didn’t want the plant to flower and then die off so quickly.
My lemon basil – notice the flower stalk now at the bottom right?
Trimmed eau de cologne mint still looking wild.
My mulberry which [...]
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