Melbourne

I'm back in Melbourne, perched atop the 45th floor of a certain building, in an office that has views to the bay, to the sea that leads to the Antarctica. Hmm. PRiddY priDDy~

Living back in Melbourne again feels so familiar... sometimes feel as if I haven't even left, except the numbers of friends I have here had really dwindled! Oh well, it's been years. The same streets: Flinders, Swanston, Bourke, the trams, the trains. Ahh... and the familiar "The next train is..." voice when I pressed the green button at the stations. But Oh! Zone three has disappeared!

And did you noticed,

No pictures!

Alas! Since Melbourne is kinda like home to me, I can't be bothered to take pictures of it... it's like, I don't have any picture of my own home to. None. Got pictures of Spain, Swiss, and Sweden, but home... Twenty two years of going home to the same house, and never bothering to take picture of it! (I think I'll take a pic of it just before it gets renovated. soon).

Plantsey

As I guzzle away at plant names and pictures at FytoGreen, Somerville, here are a smattering of the week's leafy highlights:

Fully shaded vertical garden research wall attached to the shed.

Campanula - Blue bells in full bloom, as can be seen on the top right corner of the wall.

Golden Serpent Fern- This particular one hangs from one of the research vertical gardens with minimum maintenance, and thrives pretty well.

Seaside daisy - is one of the easiest outdoor flowering plant to grow on the wall. So easy that it can be considered as a weed, actually.


Kalanchoe 'Elves' Bells' - A new type of Kalanchoe for which I can't find the exact species name online. They have a gaudier color than the regular Kalanchoes. They've done well on the trial walls as well.


Aloes from Aloe-aloe. The colors just look fantastic, don't they?


A rather adorable pot of grass.
It's an oz native, related to carnations, apparently.


A collection of red-foliaged landscape grasses at PlantMarks nursery that we visited on Thursday.


Astroturf! - Plastic lawn for those who wants a green lawn but can't be bothered to take care of it. I thought that the turf looked so real that they bothered to sprinkle a little weed here and there... and it turns out that the weed was real!


Grow your own mushroom kit! No sunlight needed =P

New buddy

She plays 'catch' all day long,
And her name is Daisy!

Greening the mall

Look! Living plants! Not plastic!
A greenhouse + shopping mall at Chadstone, Melbourne.


Glossy green real bamboo (polished with white oil)


Fytogreen's plant wall at Wittner's shoes! Gorgeous isn't it?
Plants include rabbit's foot fern (Davallia), Tahitian Bridal veil (Transcendentia), Asplenium oblongifolium, a type of Cissus and variegated Philodendron. This particular wall is fully indoor with very little exposure from the sun via the atrium, but it is doing very well with the strong artificial lighting in place.


Now. Does the green increase sales?