New Continent, New Address

I have been away for too long and I have a couple of good reasons for that - I've become a mother to a boy and we've moved to Europe. That's right. 

I had to say to goodbye to a lot of my plants. Some I gave to my parents to care and I did fly here with four precious (and rare) ones - Huperzia, Maidenhair fern, Ridleyii which died after a week and birdnest fern.

I've also got myself back the Plumerias and Kaffir Lime plant that I gifted to a friend in Austria for he has passed away and the house was sold. MIL brought them back for me. These two I have to move them around to get sun. The kaffir lime was doing exceptionally well I must say - she was flowering so much but now that she's not getting as much sun, not many blooms turned fruit. 

Challenge with the Size of a Mammoth

We have moved into the new house and it proved to be a pretty challenging house. Since it's an old house with so many trees, the house is full of ants. The size of the house is also something that I need to get used to it. We haven't finished unpacking as we have another 2 houses/condos to deal with due to last minute development. It's really been a crazy week. That said, let's focus on what's on this house.

This is how our porch looks like. Few portulaca plants and some palm-like plants. 

 We have fake dill and a huge Kauka Wilder which has rust right now. This house has plenty of birdnest ferns that some of them I mounted to their natural habitat - trees.

Coco posing at the driveway. Speaking of Coco, it has also been challenging as she became blind two weeks ago. She's struggling a little right now as she does not know this house. This picture is also deceiving - she sat down because she was scared to move around.

The movers broke the pot of my Kauka Wilder so I've grounded her. She's a little wilted but I think she will do fine.

How my condo plants currently are right now. Avocado Miki died and Magnolia Lily doesn't seem to be doing too good. The new green shoot died. the 2 plumerias in the picture came from the other apartment of ours. They should be doing well here. There's so much sun here, I've already got pretty tanned.

Rangoon creeper at our backyard. We have another one in frontyard. 

 We have 2 pots of this cute purple flowered-plant,

One of the ferns I mounted.

I should do a better job with this!

I found an oakleaf fern at my garbage bin so I tied it up on the mango tree.

I bought another Platycerium - Elephantosis (furthest left) and have it mounted on a Daiso chopping board.

The oakleaf ferns that I collected last week, finally mounted on Daiso chopping board.

Saw this oakleaf fern at one of my neighbour's when walking Odyssey earlier this evening. And to think it was a rare fern...?

New Babies

My 2 unknown Platyceriums arrived. They are reckoned to be Wallichii but... anyway they looked wilted when I took them out from the package. Gave them some water and left them at the balcony for some air.

And they all look perked up in the evening (well, I took this picture midnight actually).

And here's Odyssey saying hi!

I've noticed there's a row of 3-4 trees full of Platyceriums and birdnest ferns in KL/Bangsar road and I managed to pulled over just the other to admire and take a couple of pictures of them.  A closer look showed they belonged to someone - the platyceriums are tied to the trees and spotlights were installed to show them off. Was so tempted to pluck the lowest ones!  

We went to the new house and lo and behold, there's a flowering Rangoon Creeper growing at the back of the house which I'm very much tempted to move them to the front porch to twine with Bauhinia Phanera kockiana. 

 There are plenty of mulberry trees and birdnest ferns that I plan to either sell or give away. The previous tenant also left few orchids of unknown ID and some foliage plants (spider plant?). A Kauka Wilder is growing nicely in the front yard too. 

Another Hit and Miss

Some plants aren't doing great and I had to have a minor surgery on my foot that I didn't get to spend time taking care of the plants. It has been also too hot lately.

Well, some plants are loving the sun, especially the ylang-ylang. 

The younger bachelor buttons could not withstand the sun, 2 died. 

Yellow calla lilies died. I'm thinking to report this to a smaller pot.

My poor hydrangea.

I should move the tomato planter out to the sun.

2 of the sweet potatoes died. Leaving another 2, the smaller one is not doing too well.

It's so hot, I'm bringing the magnolia lily in. Can't risk it.

Goodbye

For an unknown reason, the leggy Magnolia Coco dried up and died. That's very sad especially when I'm losing the hydrangea too.

Birdnest fern doing pretty well, not the Santorini succulent though. Sigh.

Ylang-ylang blooming.

Now that I'm back to just one Magnolia Coco....

Trying to salvage the dying hydrangea, I also planted the sweet potato slips into the same pot.

The sun's been pretty intense lately, my lowland hydrangea is being burned that I shifted to a shaded area.

Assorted plants area consisting dill, chives, bachelor's button, cacti and amaryllis.

Tuesday Noon

Sweet potato has grown a couple of slips. 

Doesn't seem like the Thai Basil will grow root. Maybe I could collect the seeds from the flowers.

Heirloom tomato seedlings.

Hydrangea has a huge surprise for me. Look at that!

Her sprouts are growing bigger too. I'm glad she's happy here. 

Chinese kale ain't that happy.

So is the Magnolia Lily. Lost few leaves. Note the birdnest fern my bf got from me. I noticed it growing from a rail on our apartment lobby and I told him I wanted it. He surprised me this.

The slimmest edamame pods I've ever seen.

Balsam seedlings and the highland hydrangea co-existing peacefully.

More growth on the Magnolia Coco.

For some weird reason, like my Magnolia Lily, one branch lost all its leaves but Coco is growing some sprouts.

Finally some visible growth for Avocado Miki.

Another drastic growth is Bachelor's buttons.

Cute little growth tuberose.

I didn't close the door tightly and Odyssey got out and lay herself comfortably. She does this because I can't carry her into.