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By Sandy, on May 6th, 2009
This plant that has some very round green leafs mounted in the center on a long stem is called Pilea Peperomioides. It is a plant native to the Yunnan province in the South of China. And due to its origin and the resemblance between its leafs and coins, this plant is also known as the Chinese money plant.
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By Sandy, on May 4th, 2009
 It is quite easy to do cutting propagation for coleus. Last month, I took four cuttings from my coleuses, and three of them have survived. I guess this wasn’t too bad for someone who propagated plant from cutting for the first time, and I have already started propagating my second batch of coleus cuttings a few days ago.
So here, let me show you how I do cutting propagation with my coleus.
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By Sandy, on May 2nd, 2009
 To match the name of this tabletop garden – In the Outer Space better, I have taken away the moss and covered the pots and soil with black stones instead.
Which one do you like more?
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By Sandy, on April 30th, 2009
 This is my latest tabletop garden – A Green Cappuccino. Ever wonder what those greens are? They are not moss or some type of groundcover plants, b ut believe it or not, they are dragon fruit seedlings – one of those exotic, bizarre-looking fruit which you can find in Southeast Asia.
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By Sandy, on April 28th, 2009
 It was really windy last week. The wind was blowing fiercely that my two pots of magic beans kept toppling so often that I finally gave up getting out to the balcony and trying to keep them straight. It was then I knew I should find a more suitable place for my climbing plants as soon as possible, somewhere with good support for the vines to grow, avoiding the plants from collapsing.
And I am happy that I have found a water pipe which I have never taken any notice of until now.
Haha! Anyways, I hope it works 🙂
Continue reading Magic Bean Day 54 – Training and Supporting My Climbing Beans
By Sandy, on April 26th, 2009
 As I said earlier, I originally planned to cover my tabletop garden – Cactus Garden with a layer of off-white gravels. But since I couldn’t find any on hand, I used some big black stones instead. While the tabletop garden looked pretty cool with the black stones, the picture of the garden covered with small gravels had always been in my mind.
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By Sandy, on April 25th, 2009
Here is another tabletop cactus garden. Since this tabletop garden is bigger and has many more cacti than my other cactus tabletop garden – Cactus Garden, I simply called it the Cactus Jungle. 
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By Sandy, on April 22nd, 2009
It is pretty quick and easy to make this tabletop garden – Where is the Fish? And it’s so cute too! 🙂
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By Sandy, on April 20th, 2009
I especially made this tabletop garden – Double the Love as a bridal shower gift for a very good friend of mine. Hopefully, it will be a nice table decoration for her new home.
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By Sandy, on April 18th, 2009
While we are familiar with the common names of our houseplants, most of us do not know the botanical name of our plants. This is totally fine, for it is absolutely not necessary to memorize those long, daunting botanical names. We can just use the botanical names for reference when looking up information of our plants in guidebooks or websites. Here are the reasons why we use botanical names for plant identification.
Botanical Name of a Plant – The Breakdown
The botanical name of a plant is composed of two major parts, the genus and the species of the plant. For simplicity’s sake, genus is the family and species is a member of the family.
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