I simply love Spring!!|! A season of new beginnings! Colourful flowers blooming everywhere!! It’s especially exciting when I come across a variety for the very first time. This year, my discovery is the Bleeding Hearts (Dicentra spectabilis) and I found it in my neighbour’s garden. How convenient is that!? They are so pretty though I can’t [...]

These pictures were taken at my office when we received a bouquet of orchids – a beautiful combination of purple and white orchids.  The shape of this orchid is just like a big moth in beautiful purple color. That is why this Phalaenopsis Orchid is also called Moth Orchid. Phalaenopsis has many colors, with or [...]

People love red roses for their beauty. When someone told about rose, we might think or imagine that it should be red. Remember an old song : “Roses are red, my love … Violets are blue …” However, roses have various colors and they are all beautiful. These photos were taken at my garden. This [...]

Working day in day out everyday can become monotonous. Especially if we are working for someone else. Yet we need to work because we are human. No matter how rich and financially independent we are, there always a certain degree of work that have to be done. Just look at this Carpenter Bee… Even thought [...]

The generic name means “Phalaen[a]-like” and is probably a reference to the genus Phalaena, the name given by Carolus Linnaeus to a group of large moths; the flowers of some species supposedly resemble moths in flight. For this reason, the species are sometimes called Moth orchids. Phalaenopsis Amabilis by v1olet