Excursion to Wijaya de Art of The Garden & Mekarsari (part 2)

On our last post, we have mention about Wijaya de Art of the garden and now we are going to continue with the second destination, which is Mekarsari.

Mekarsari, the Amazing Tourism Park that is located at Cileungsi District Km 03, Bogor regency, is not only a center of the agricultural biodiversity of tropical fruit but a laboratory, a cultivation center and a research center of corpse flower as well. It has a collection of tropical fruit plants that are endangered like 'kepel, duwet, menteng and matoa ....etc'.

And as a family tourism park, Mekarsari has many kinds of interesting packages that able to attract visitors, one of them is Green Land Tour package which 'Margriet-Dorothea' followed some time ago. By following the tour package, the visitors have the opportunity to see the orchards like salacca, starfruit, durian or they could feel the sensation of picking melons from the tree at the greenhouse site of melon.

Sound interesting, ya? Ok, here's a glance overview.

Corpse flower shown at the entrance hall of Mekarsari Tourism Park

Orchard touring by mobile carriage.

Picking melon from their plants at the greenhouse site.

Interested in planting fruit? Seeds, young plants or other materials needed can be obtained at the garden center.

As Green Land tour participants , before going home we got a gift packet each containing of a half kilo of salacca in a unique basket, a starfruit, a bottle of 'Mekarsari' juice (you can choose either guava or mango juice), a souvenir from Mekarsari (2 pieces of pens) and a polybag of young plant (the choice is rose apple, guava or avocado plant).

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Pictures taken at Mekarsari Tourism Park, Cileungsi, Bogor, West Java, Indonesia

Excursion to Wijaya de Art of The Garden & Mekarsari (part 1)

A few days ago Margriet and Dorothea, a community forum for florists of Bandung Diocese, went for an excursion together. And the first place we visited was 'Wijaya' de art of the Garden in Citeureup, Bogor. There, we saw rows of green plants as long as the eye could see, only a little bit of flowers such as orchids were at the front, but mostly were foliage. There were some foliage which usually we use to decorate St. Peter Cathedral, such as philodendron, dracaena, green cordyline, anthurium and florida beauty. We also saw caladium, sanseviera, bromelia, aglaonema with lot of variant in color were in nursery there.

But the star of everything there are magnosia and filansia. They look like grass in appearance but softer and cuter. The seller said that they're easy to grow, just hang them to the air, or attach them on the dead tree, they will grow well. These plant also don't need any care and any fertilizer since they live in the air. Ho... ho... sounds good for busy people in the city, right guys?

The gate of Wijaya de art of the garden. Pay attention to the letters of 'wijaya'. They're actually a living plant.

Rows of green young plants are neatly in the nursery.

Here it is, the star among the green plant here, Magnosia and Filansia

When magnosia and filansia attached vertically on galvanised wire, it can be used just like wall for outdoor design. Beautiful!! 

Magnosia or filansia attached to the dead tree. And since it's quite pricey, imagine if you have one, it's alike a ‘money’ tree for you, he...

After selecting the desired green plants, some participants went to the cashier while some others rested on the bench, waiting to board the bus heading to the second destination, Mekarsari.

Well, don't miss our next post ya....

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Pictures taken at Wijaya de art of the Garden, Citeureup, Bogor, West Java, Indonesia

Garden Flowers as a Table Centerpiece (2)

This is another floral design that uses rattan basket as a vase and will be suitable for a table centerpiece or a 'get well' flower arrangements. Most of the material used is green foliage, but different in texture and colour tone. They are garden plants. 

Close-up of the different texture of the greeny. Kadaga leaf or asplenium, phillodendron hederaceum or cordatum and dotted cordyline.

The flowers are carnation, rose-apple's flowers and the last and biggest one is ... , truly I'm not sure what it is but it's likely a kind of lilies.

These pictures taken at St. Dorothea Talk Show in Bandung. The florist's unknown.