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I would like to join.
Thanks.

I've brainstormed a bit for the children's section of the community garden in Tai Peng. Please feel free to add your suggestions and ideas. Also next Sunday, Nov 10th, will be a community work-day at 10:30am. Bring your gloves and seeds!

Sunflower House: plant sunflower seeds in a square shape, but leave some room for a door. When the sunflowers grow you will have a fun hang out spot for kids. You can also do this with corn.

Vine Tee-Pee: Make a tee-pee with twine and bamboo sticks. Plant ornamental vines or peas/beans. Kids can hide inside the tee-pee. You can make other vine structures like a tunnel.

Pumpkin Patch
Strawberry Patch
Cherry Tomatoes
Flower patch

Does anyone have any other ideas for the children's garden?

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Looks like things are happening. Unfortunately I have to work all Saturday and all Sunday for the next two weekends, but I hope there will be a few crumbs of soil left in two weeks time for a little plot. I have lots of little Portulaca plants which are self-sown and I could make a small bed of these for propagating more seedlings in future that anyone could make use of - some are yellow, some magenta and some salmon pink, They grow like weeds if given sufficient water and are very attractive, opening with the first sun. Likewise a small blue flower, whose name I forget.

Portulaca sp



Anyone know the name of this one?


I also have a red frangipani and Pakistani honey mango tree (grown from a mango bought in Lewisham market in summer) looking for more room than my pots have to offer
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This is Torenia fournieri (Scrophulariaceae), sometimes known as "Blue Wings" although there are also varieties which are various shades of pink and yellow. You can pick them up in the flower market in Prince Edward for about $15, and after that, as you say, it is easy to grow more of them from the seeds they produce. In fact you don't even need to collect the seeds and new seedlings will spring up around the parent plants in due course.

I love these Torenia fournieri (Scrophulariaceae), even before learning their name just now from Chav.

They're spreading all over my rooftop garden now, single plants popping up here and there, suddenly blooming in places they haven't been planted. Delightful little surprises in many colours, looking like tiny lady slipper orchids (paphiopedilum), even a dark deep red colour not mentioned above.

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A new Lamma community of common purpose has been birthed!

This past Sunday the Tai Peng Community Garden got off to a roaring start with a turnout of about 15 hard working souls. The garden came to life with the cheerful sounds of playing children and the buzz of hard work in both individual plots and shared projects like the children's garden and the amazing new fence created by member, Chris (the carpenter).
Thanks to Denis for taking photos of the affair and posting them on his own site: http://gallery.mac.com/denisw#gallery

The garden is open to members and curious passers-by during daylight hours every day. Feel free to 'have a gander'. (There are still a few (maybe 2 or 3) plots still available.)

We will meet again this coming Sunday November 18th at 10:30.

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Torenia fournieri (Scrophulariaceae) is a really beautiful flowering plant. In cantonese, it is called "Jerk Chai Fa" which means flower looks like little bird. Let's take a look on what they would be in huge amount...enjoy!!!

Nice ones. I have a few seedlings of the 雀仔花 so I'l try to stick them in a bed, and in a few months, who knows?

The (Scrophulariaceae) bit in brackets just refers to the family the genus belong to, so Chav was just telling us that the plant belongs to the "Scroff" family, which is a large family, commonly with this type of tubular and often irregular flower. It includes things like snapdragons and foxgloves and figworts and buddleas.

The Tai Peng Community Garden now has a Google group set up for communication. Access is open, so any and all interested members and /or friends of the garden are welcome to join.

http://groups.google.com/group/tai-peng ... ity-garden

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
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