My ideal abode, i wanted a butterfly garden, with river flowing, tiny shrimps and fish swimming through aquatic plants around their own natural surrounding, which were not possible to setup unless I own a lake or I dig my own small pond hehehe. So i wanted a butterfly garden, and hubby couldn't stand caterpillars eating the plants. Deadlock happens :) but i got my lime tree to attract the butterflies in the end lols..
The house i own in town originally had a small porch that fits two cars. We converted one side to a permanent raised bed of which afterwards appears like an elevated lawn, and then planted grass (picked the type that's easy to maintain, no fancy mancy grass here). I used to cut the grass at night. Strangely it's a quite a stress-relieving technique..
One unique view of the garden that i loved the most were surely the concrete container which hubby converted into an aquarium! Those tiny duckweeds and goldfish were just marvelous to look at. He had the water pumped through a vertical wall stuffed with coconut husks and water-spinach. The sound of water splashing down were heavenly.
Then there's two wall containers which i planted my chives, turmeric, chili and lemongrass. I use these a lot in my cooking so having them just outside were just handy. These wall containers used to be aquaponics for again the water-spinach :) they were connected to each other and to another aquarium by pipe. At the time we often found tiny fish fry swimming inside the containers, amazing.. cute! So the water that carries our fishpoop waste fertilizer were pumped to the plants area, while the root cleans water back into the aquarium.. self-sustain!
I have a long pot that houses the aloe-vera and desert rose outside the gate, both given to me by a friend. Gotta love plants that thrive under sunny skies, low-maintenance. And in a small corner just above the garbage bin house was where i lined up my thorn-less succulents collection from Cameron Highlands *cactus for the cowards lah*. I used to have mini cactus garden in a small pot, then i realized the cactus seem to grow sideways :) because of a cat who regularly squeezed in!
The house i own in town originally had a small porch that fits two cars. We converted one side to a permanent raised bed of which afterwards appears like an elevated lawn, and then planted grass (picked the type that's easy to maintain, no fancy mancy grass here). I used to cut the grass at night. Strangely it's a quite a stress-relieving technique..
One unique view of the garden that i loved the most were surely the concrete container which hubby converted into an aquarium! Those tiny duckweeds and goldfish were just marvelous to look at. He had the water pumped through a vertical wall stuffed with coconut husks and water-spinach. The sound of water splashing down were heavenly.
Then there's two wall containers which i planted my chives, turmeric, chili and lemongrass. I use these a lot in my cooking so having them just outside were just handy. These wall containers used to be aquaponics for again the water-spinach :) they were connected to each other and to another aquarium by pipe. At the time we often found tiny fish fry swimming inside the containers, amazing.. cute! So the water that carries our fish
I have a long pot that houses the aloe-vera and desert rose outside the gate, both given to me by a friend. Gotta love plants that thrive under sunny skies, low-maintenance. And in a small corner just above the garbage bin house was where i lined up my thorn-less succulents collection from Cameron Highlands *cactus for the cowards lah*. I used to have mini cactus garden in a small pot, then i realized the cactus seem to grow sideways :) because of a cat who regularly squeezed in!
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