Wanted to post this to my Instagram, but it's a secret house-warming gift for my cousin. I'm pretty sure she doesn't check on my page here often, so I don't think I'll ruin the surprise by posting it here. Our Popo, or Grandmother, used to grow these in her yard for lei making. Paired with…
My beautiful cousin asked me to make her a small painting. While I wait for my canvas to arrive in the mail, I’m doing little studies. Torenia is known here in Hawai’i as Ola’a Beauty. Some also call it the wishbone flower. This was another of my Popo’s favorite flowers. She would pair Ola’a Beauties…
Not really my favorite plant. When we moved into our house, they were already in the ground. I've never bothered to dig out the rhizomes from the ground, so every so often they come back to bloom! This year has been so hot, yellow-green and dry. It's actually nice to see so much red scattered…
#OrchidSeeds Came out after running this morning to an open (partially) seed pod! In this video, I open it up all the way and you can see the MILLIONS of seeds contained within. How ever, orchids seeds are naked and created without their own nutrition or defense mechanism. They are meant to blow around the…
We are going to call this plant Wallace. Because it's one of the two large orchids given to me by my aunt BB about a year ago, from my late grandma's collection. I named the other one Kamila, after my Popo, Margaret Kamila Yuen. This one is Wallace, after my Goong Goong, Wallace Lin Chew…
Vee has named this cool plant as Key Lime This guy is Aloha Sparks Halloween! This one had a long name according to Vee... "as sweet as Purple Pudding Plum".... And Buttercup, another name by Vee 8)
A No ID orchid from my Aunt BB's garden. 2016-0914
