Visit to Yee Peng Nursery - Vandaeous

Willie (no relation to the other one) showed me around his Vandaeous experiments. Crossing names I do not know - didn't bother to ask until I intend to buy any - vandaeous are a no no in my arid balcony.

National flower's lao bu or lao pei Papilioanthe teres






















Vanda Mimi Palmer hybrids:






I like the colour of this one. The rest of the plants havevery long yellow spikes but this one is short and green-yellow




This one is really nicely rounded. Looked as if Vandanopsis (can't remember the other genus) parishii was used


Couple of Renatheras

Visit to Yee Peng Nursery - Laelinae

Very sianz during my short break before I break my brains in the hospital. Decided to pay a dear friend a visit @ his father's farm near Jalan Kayu. The sky was darkening, so went earlier to snap some shaky pics.

The draw of this place is that it is a breeding ground for new colours and shapes - a far cry from the other import and sell kinda place. It was exciting to see the outcomes of these genetic experiments.

Pai sey for the lobe-sided pix, not time to readjust. Verli busy.

Tee or or


Epidendrum hybrid














My all time fave, Cattleya Brymeriana (Cattleya violacea X Cattleya eldorado)








Brassavola influenced hybrids:







Huge chunk of Brassavola Singapura (a few pots together actually =p)

Better warn the young boys to stay away

Spot at the Senawang rest stop

Haven't seen a yellow one before:

Jewel Orchids

Why I like to travel to Malaysia

To get my regular Western junk food fix. My favourite fatty drink

Seishi's varigated and pedigree collection

Snap at all his Fuukiran collection

During the ride to the place, he gave be an interesting insight to the expensive hobby of collecting Fuukiran - very different from your normal Neofinetia falcata (aka Fuuran).

Fuukiran has a pedigree in them in the sense that anyone who wants to register a Neofinetia falcata as a Fuukiran has to be inducted into the Fuukiran Society, provide details of the plant such as source, description and proof that it is over a century old. Normal Neofinetias are known as Fuuran.











Some Dendrobium monoliforme and Cymbidiums









Then the piece la resistance:


A cattleya from the land of gold with the leaves of the same colour - How come it wasn't in my flask?!


Most of the plants still recovering from fertiliser burn/ a salt out, so didn't look quite well yet. Just give it time.

Trying this one now

Corybas serpentilingua







Cute hor?

Mini Pallens

Phalaenopsis pallens from the Philippines

This is life

Watching my new Strong Medicine DVD while cutting up new mini labels and making new pots

TMD slug damage

You got to kill them all Poke'em slugs







Dunno how the slug got into my balcony. Stupid things leave all the slime in the crown and made my leaves look jungle-like. Sianz0.5

A SIngapore ad went wrong

To see why, move away from screen and look at the owl's chest



You'll see the feathers as 2 rows of teeth and the eyes looked hollowed out.

Mango cinnamon rolls using bread pudding dough

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Spread all the good stuff on the dough



Roll up, cut and squeeze into baking tray

When Kenny G decided to learn how to slap 2 pieces of metal together

he became a sax-cymbal

Bread pudding cinnamon rolls

200g butter rubbed with sufficient self rising floor to form bredcrumbs texture. Add hand full sugar and 2 pinch of salt.

2 eggs into a cup with 1 capful fake vanilla to kill smell, top up with HL milk to 1 cup

Pour mix and sit over night in fridge

5 x Harumanis mangoes (http://www.knowledgebank.irri.org/cglrc/icraf/mangoBook/Description_of_Mango_Cultivars/Arumanis.htm) peeled and cut into slices then cut across grain - very fragrant

Toast 100g of sliced almonds

Mix muscadavo sugar with cinnamon powder

Roll dough out on floured surface into an even rectangle.

Sprinkle with cinnamon tainted muscadavo sugar and lay pieces of butter followed by mangoes then almonds

Roll and cut into pinwheels

Then line in tray lined with baking paper

Throw into oven 200 celcius for 40 min

Cool and serve - gingerly hor since it has the texture of bread pudding.

Si AQ got me addicted to watching Robot Chicken *bleh*





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