Posted in Plants and Garden, tagged Aquatic Plants, Goldfish, Setting up Natural Environment, Water Garden on November 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We have several gold fish outdoor in a big tub and a water fountain. They live healthy and happy in a natural setting without modern filtering system or chemicals added into the water.
Keeping water garden in form of an aquarium or man made pond today rely on technology supports such as chemicals to remove traces of unwanted chlorine [...]
Posted in Life, tagged Aussie Slangs, Bahasa Inggris di Australia, Language, Life on November 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Waktu dulu belajar bahasa Inggris dibangku SMP dan SMA, rupanya yang diajarkan cenderung bahasa Inggris America. Ternyata ada kata kata yang kupelajari dulu tidak digunakan disini di Lucky Country.
Suamiku bukan dinkum (asli) orang Australia karena dia orang Belanda yang lahir di Nederland. Jadi bicara dengan dia sih masih mudah dimengerti. Dia hanya membenarkan kata kata [...]
Posted in Plants and Garden, tagged Fruit and Tree, Garden Plant, Invasive, Loquat on November 16, 2009 | 9 Comments »
There is this loquat tree next door that hangs over our front garden along the driveway. Though this small tree is quite attractive with its compact rounded shape and glossy large foliage, I have come into conclusion that it is annoyingly invasive. The problem is that the people next door don’t pick the fruits and [...]
Posted in Plants and Garden, tagged Gardenia, White Fragrant Flower on November 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
When summer is approaching and the gardenias are blooming, the heat of a slightly balmy evening heightens the sweet sensuous fragrance. I don’t know why, but I think the best perfumed flowers are white in colour, like for examples Jasmine and Tuberose.
http://kiyanti2008.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/jasmine-flower/
http://kiyanti2008.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/tuberose/
Gardenia is native to the tropics and subtropics of Africa, southern Asia, Australasia and [...]
Posted in Wonderful Animals, tagged Our Pet Dog, Shiba Inu, Update on November 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I had posted a poem and a story about our dog Foxy. To read this post please open:
http://kiyanti2008.wordpress.com/tag/foxy/
UPDATE:
Foxy died on March 23, 2009. We had to put him down because he suffered from paralysis on both his hind legs. We didn’t want him to suffer….. He died in peace, and it was painless and very quick [...]
Posted in Plants and Garden, tagged Colourful flowers, Epiphyllum, Gardening, Jungle Cacti, Rhipsalidopsis gaertneri, Zygocactus on November 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Most cactus plants originally grow in sandy desert, but the moist and humid forests in South America have their very own species. Most of them, in natural environment live as epiphytic plants that grow in tree or rock crevices.
There are many species of jungle cacti and the most common name for them is “Holiday Cacti” [...]
Posted in About Me, tagged Australia, Memetik Strawberry, Memotong Gasket, Pengalaman Kerja on November 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Saya tiba dinegeri Kangguru ini, tepatnya di Melbourne pada awal bulan September 1983. Seingat saya, waktu itu hawa terasa dingin sekali walaupun September adalah musim semi disini. Memang tidak turun salju dimusim winter (kecuali didaerah pegunungan), tapi temperatur bisa turun dibawah nol derajat C.
Waktu itu, 26 tahun yang lalu, tidak banyak orang orang asing (migrants) seperti [...]
Posted in Plants and Garden, tagged Crassula ovata, Jade, Money Tree, Plants, Succulent on November 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
One day my hubby said that I should trim the fat plants along the driveway. Ha….. fat plants? I had no idea what he was talking about. Actually, he was talking about Jade plants. Why? He reckoned because it had rounded fleshy leaves and thick fat soft trunks.
Jade plant is also commonly known as lucky [...]
