More plants coming... Also photo updates

I have spoken to my colleague, Ngee Hwee and she also keeps plants as well. She mentioned that she has some flower plants (purple flowers) that she can give me and I accepted them since I have more leave plants than flower ones. Need to add some colour to these plants, I think. She mentioned that she would be giving me tomorrow so just now, I also prepare a pot for the new arrivals.


Above is the complete transplanting of the granny aloe vera into her new pot. It is really heavy and I had to complete the transplanting at the crampy staircase or else I don't think I can carry her up here. With this, I was hoping that granny aloe vera can grow bigger (almost like the one we saw in the market selling one). Only time will tell...

Complete showcase of my plants. At least it gives an idea where and how they are placed together and why. Main reason for the placement is sunlight penatration. Plants along the corridor do not get a lot of sunlight shinning in (suitable for indoor plants) and the staircase has a lot of sunlight shining there (suitable for light loving plants).

First will show you the first plant that greets me everyday.

My ju zhi shu. They are located on the right hand side of my main door and after the major leave trimming, a little "botak" now. The right one also have a few white flowers growing now (previously got flower buds).


This is actually the top shelf of a 3 ft rod iron rack. I have used my neighbour's floor tiles (he donated to me since he said it looks nicer). There is this purple creeper plant which I cannot find a name for it. My mother-in-law said it got special medical use to I still kept it while I threw most of it. Oh, the green thing is actually a jumbo container used to water the plants. : P For the bottom shelf, I did not show as I use it to keep my gardening tools and water (fish water contained in pet bottles) and some pots. Too ugly so cannot show lah...

Beside the 3 ft rack are my money plant and 2 unknown plants (also have some medical use). The middle one is my neighbours. They are moving to their new house, so explains why so many plants are mine. : P Hopefully the new owners do not have many plants or I have to give up some space and need to optimise the space that I have left. Still I try not to give up the space at the stairs as it is good for my plants there. : P

This is actually the staircase going up to level 10. Here I kept most of my aloe veras. Sadly, it seems that the mommy aloe vera is having a new plantlet again (that makes 4 plants that I need to transplant!). Then I had to deplay my transplanting since I need to plantlets to grow to a certain size before I transplant them. So far no casualties. "Touch wood"! Beside the granny aloe vera is the cute stray plant and the middle one on the floor is the xue liu that has curl leaves when staying with the aloe vera on the left (now left it alone but looks small as 2 branches were removed since I think they are injured and took them off).


This is the staircase going down to level 9. You will see a long pot of chilli padi, 3 pots of xue liu and a unknown plant (to reduce cholestrol). Intent to keep the xue lius bigger and then select the best (2 pots) at the most and give up the rest. No use keeping so many of the same plant. Xue liu anyone? Heee...

As I have mentioned, after my small aloe veras and xue lius are big enough, those who can grow them can contact me to get them from me. With good soil, they can grow like granny aloe vera or at least like mommy aloe vera. They can produce plantlets quite fast (at least mommy aloe vera is about a year plus old, if I'm not wrong).