Feeding your plants
‘The Tao of Gardening…Not too much, not too little….’

Soils in the tropics are generally low in essential elements necessary for plant growth. This is so because plants in the natural forest settings get their nutrients from the natural process of decomposition. In which, most of th ...

Love the environment, love your Plants
‘…Plants are living things, they need to be fed, they need sunshine and water, and most important of all, they need LOVE….’

Yes.. It’s not a Typographical error. Plants need love just like any other living things on this planet Earth. You may think I am a crazy weirdo Botanist, proc ...

How to Prolong the beauty of your Festive plant?
Chinese New Year is just around the corner and everywhere in Singapore is filled with blooming colorful festive plants. It has always been a tradition for the Chinese to buy Flowering plants to decorate their homes, in the hope that this coming year will be a prosperous and abundant one. These att ...

Soiless gardening ? Hydroponics
The word Hydroponics was derived from two Greek words, hydro, meaning water and ponos meaning labor - literally "water-working". Hydroponics is thus the science of growing plants without the use of soil. In some hydroponics methods, an inert medium, for example vermiculite, is used as a form of supp ...

A short history of hydroponics
Hydroponics is not a new method of growing plants. The history of Hydroponics stretched back to the time of the Ancient Egyptians. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon was probably one of the first successful attempts to grow plants hydroponically. The floating gardens of the Aztecs of Mexico and those of ...

Advantages of Hydroponics
One of the major advantages of hydroponics that drove research was for growing fresh produce in non-arable areas of the world where some people cannot grow in the soil in their area. During World War II, the Americans tested this application of hydroponics by supplying troops stationed on non-arable ...

Soiless gardening:- Air plants
‘Air plants’ as Tillandsias are commonly known, is actually from the family of the Bromeliads otherwise known as the family of the pineapples. In the recent Singapore Garden Festival 2006, our Landscape designer from Australia, came up with the idea of hanging planters with Air plants. It got me ha ...