IPBI DPC Bandung Held a Street Flower Demo

Flowers at a wedding venue? That’s usual…

Flowers on your dining table? Already seen often…

Flowers on bicycle? Huh..??

Yep, no kidding, those are real flower arrangements, on a bike!!!

How did that flower arrangement get on the bike? The story went back on a text message a couple days ago, announcing that there will be an IPBI flower event on CFD  (Car Free Day) Dago this 21st, celebrating Kartini Day. For me personally, CFD is no longer that attractive cause it’s getting more and more like Gasibu on a weekend now, however on a flower event, Flowerdeily will be there!!!!

So… this flower event is a collaboration between IPBI and NGN, or Nu Gareulis Ngagowes …(love this name J !!!...) and since this is a cycling community combined with flower arranging demo, the result is flower on bicycle. Here Mrs. Winny explaining  the name of the flower (lilium of Casablanca) and its color available in the market.

Just flower on bike? Noooo…the demo continued on a table centerpiece demo.

Back on the bike theme, you can also put flower on your hat too (in case flowers on your bike is not your interest).

There’s more...this time a demo on flower bouquet by Miss Renny and Mrs. Winny.

Reni’s making the round hand bouquet which consisting of pink roses, each of them wrapped with cellophane first.

You can say she’s a pro since less than 30 minutes the rose bouquet already wrapped by pink plaid of burlap. What a beautiful round bouquet! Good job.

Back on Mrs. Winny, she’s making her signature cascade shaped bouquet with two tone wrapping paper, she made a similar bouquet on a flower demo at Hero supermarket before but this time she’s using scorpion orchids (arachnis ‘Maggie Oie’) and roses.

And the lucky one who received the beautiful flower bouquet is the chief of NGN.

Wanna join or know more about Nu Gareulis Ngagowes? Visit their twitter or FB page!!

Notes

Images taken on Sunday, April 21, 2013 at Car Free Day Dago – Cikapayang, Bandung.

City Life City Garden 2012 (5) : Ultra White Minimalist Garden

This is it!! For those of you who love the super clean minimalist style, this can be your inspiration. J This is an all white garden (except for the plants of course) with the focal point being the white boxes drawn like buildings (4D). They can be used as plant pots or as base for the lighting fixtures.

For those of you who want to add some animal statues to your garden but afraid to ruin the minimalist theme, this wire swan painted in white (4A) can be a reference.

Also noticed the tile (4B), instead of the boring square tile, you might want to try cut them into triangles, then pour some gravels between them, it will break the monotonous white theme, but still look minimalist.

For the plants, to support the white minimalist theme, choose plants and flowers in pale pastel colors, as seen here, no bold colors for the flowers. Don’t forget to put some hidden lamps behind the pots. Lovely!!!!

Okay, from all those garden installation at City Life City Garden 2012, these four posts are the ones that we think are the best 4. So, we sincerely hope these can be your garden inspirations, especially for a mini gardens. However, we’re not done with this expo yet, since we haven’t share with you’re the flower and plants market, so, just wait and see…

City Garden City Life 2012 (4) : Rustic English Mini Garden - with animals!!!

English gardens are well known for their rustic natural look, no trimmed or neat looking plants (3B) here. This yellow wall (3A) becomes the focal point. To add a more wild look, add some animals (3E) on ground, columns and walls, and put them in poses to make them look more realistic.

As a base for the seating area, the designer used red bricks, with cushions in rustic brown pattern just thrown on top of it. Add also a plain natural colored coffee table and voila! A seating place was done. Just don’t forget to add the roof on top since this seating arrangement definitely won’t last in open air.

One very good tip from this garden is that using realistic and monotone color animals can enhance the theme and doesn’t make your garden look like a zoo…just look at the cute squirrel that looks realistic can blend in with the gold colored metal cranes. If the cranes also look realistic it will look too crowded and overdone in the mini garden, but done this way, it looks good.

A closer look on the gold colored metal animal statue, this metal chicken (3D) with mirror accents looks quite elegant I must say, since I never consider chicken as an option for garden statues, before I saw this one.

Also cute idea to put the rabbits (3E) in between the shrubs. Pick shrub types that won’t grow quickly, otherwise you will have to trim them often or else the rabbits will ‘dissapear’ J

Well, this styrofoam birds (3F) might not be applicable in real outdoor, but who knows? When you put the real trees in, the real birds might come and visit your garden……..

Hopefully we haven’t made you exhausted or confused with our many ideas, since we still have one more mini garden idea to share, this time it will be the white minimalist theme, so check on us soon!!!!

City Life City Garden 2012 (3) : Mini Vintage Garden Looks

Vintage vintage vintage!!! Yep, this is no vintage look by photoshop, this garden did use some vintage items, such as plastic crates (2A) and wood crates (2B) as plant containers, no paint used, just put them as it is, and put the potted plants inside.

Still hang your plants the normal way? Try to hang them (2C) perpendicular to the wall, of course not every plants can suit this style, but these bromeliads sure look good. Their varied size and color make the walls less monotonous. Also notice how the lamps put inside the bird cages, cute!!!

And this is my favorite!!!! This rocking horse (2E) is so cute, usually rocking horse is painted with vivid colors but this one had soft tones, so no childish feel in this garden. Absolutely loved this one!!! Also the toy truck (2D) used as plant container, if your kids had one of these kinds and don’t use them anymore, you might want to use them like this before you throw them away, reuse and save the environment!!!!

Hope this vintage theme mini garden can be an inspiration to you guys, but don’t haste in making your decision, since there are still 2 more gardens inspiration for you!!! In our next post, we’ll present you the rustic English garden theme. See you soon!!

City Life City Garden 2012 (2) : Shabby chic garden theme

As I mentioned in previous post, in this exhibition there’re also some garden exhibition by the local university students. Unfortunately I don’t know from which university they're, but my roommate said they might be from the landscape major…since this is just an installation, some of them might not be applicable in real outdoor garden, however, most of them are simple brilliant ideas that can be your garden inspiration!!! Of course we cannot post all of those exhibitions, only few that we think are simple and unique can be seen in this post and the series ahead…….

Ahem… the first garden installation was titled ‘Vivid of vintage’ by the creators, however … I don’t see any vintage look in this garden, since everything looks new… personally, I think this garden theme tends toward the shabby chic theme… you can see the patchwork pillows (1A) are the accent… with the surrounding consists of arranged boxes in natural and white color…

My favorite item in this garden is this hanging board (1B). It’s just simple board with cabinet knobs as the hangers, but the drawings and the additional items to be hanged made them more cute…. also notice how some of the boxes filled with gravels… looks very neat and completely different with the usual arrangements of just pour the gravel between the tiles.. for small gardens, this technique can be applied.

As the lighting fixtures, I think it’s brilliant to use rattan garden rake painted white ( 1C) and attached them to the wooden sticks. The ribbons might not be applicable outdoor but rattan can withstand the weather so you might want to try this at home.

Aside from being the plants container, some of the boxes can also be used as display for dried coconut shells, 'bintaro' seed, pinecones and branches, don’t forget to attach some chicken wire to prevent the falling. A good idea for those who don’t want the hassle of watering the plants everyday…

Overall, this mini garden can be an inspiration for your small gardens…both minimalist and modern style houses can enjoy this theme since it is simple and can fit into many designs…but…before you decide, you might want to look at our next post first, which will encompass the vintage theme, so keep on checking our blog!!!

City Life City Garden 2012 (1): The Garden inside…

Hi again everyone…It’s Little Flo here, long time no see u guys since I’m just arrived from my 5 months stay in Bangkok, Thailand… hee… hee…

It’s been a very fun experience there and since Thailand is well known for their agriculture products such as fruits and of course flowers and plants, I’m very lucky to had a chance to see some of them. Not just for me, but also for you since I’ll be sharing some of the flowers and gardens with all of you starting today!!!!!

Okay… this is the first flower exhibition I attended, it is held in a mall called Central Plaza Rama III, there are lots of central plaza in Bangkok, this one is on the Rama III road. I just want a little bit of sightseeing when suddenly whoa!! There’s this flower installation in front of the mall, hum… turns out there’s this exhibition called City Life City Garden going on inside… there’s a mini park inside the mall with some exotic plants, lots of garden installation by the local university students and don’t forget the business : flower and garden market in the basement, so let’s take a look, shall we?

So, this small garden actually located at one of the walkway bridge inside the mall. The grass is obviously just a green carpet, but the hanging and potted plants are real…not a bad idea to put some refreshment inside the mall…

Forget the boring gnome for your garden statues…. this gorilla figurine is far more exciting! And not to mention very tropical… you can see in the background the flower and garden market below… enticing the crowd to come downstairs… 

And now for the plants… some of them are just the usual suspects at the garden, but looking closely, some of them are obviously not in your ordinary garden. Just checked some of these rare ‘kantong semar’ varieties… never seen them before!!!

Want to check the rest of the expo, I went downstairs where a stage for some performance had been installed…. check out the giant butterfly… made us feel like dwarfs in a giant’s garden.

Looking closely at the details, the stage comprised of a large frame filled with a vertical garden, and a mini garden inside…. different way in Indonesia where they just put the plants side by side, here in Bangkok they arranged different types of plants with different heights to make the garden look more real, love them!!!

On my next stop, I checked out some cool and unique garden installation by the local university students, these can be your garden inspiration people! Be patient for our next post in this series : shabby chic garden theme !!

The Orchid Asia Africa Expo (part 3)

These are what we bought at The Orchid Asia Africa Expo few weeks ago. We bought 2 pots plant of dendrobium. We purposely chose the plants that haven't bloomed all, some flowers at the top are still buds so that they will last longer. What we thought is right because it has almost been a month since we bought and those orchids still look beautiful. They are even more beautiful since the flowers are all blooming now.

'green jade' dendrobium

an up close look

'red peking' dendrobium

an up close look

Kekar Plant Adoption

Does anyone know the name of this orchid? We don't know either since it includes rare species and seldom found at the market. It's also the first time we saw this orchid and it was at the booth of  Kekar Merah Putih.

There, we also saw giant orchid plant (named gigantea?) which almost extinct because of the illegal lodging. There were also other species of orchid which drastically decreasing in population hanging there. 

Besides the almost extinct orchids, Kekar Merah Putih also brought some natural traditional products from  tribes in the inland Borneo, Kalimantan. They were woven fabric, hats, purses and hand bags from woven bamboo.

These rows of young orchid plants were not for sale but for adoption. Kekar Merah Putih is apparently a NGO, too. So, for those who are interested to adopt the almost extinct orchids or if you need further information about this can contact at the address below:

Kekar Merah Putih, NGO

Dewan Pimpinan Pusat

Jl. Saturnus Ujung VI S/134 

Bandung, Jawa Barat, Indonesia

Phone: 022-70047680

kekar_merahputih@yahoo.co.id

The Orchid Asia Africa Expo (part 2)

Still from the Orchid Asia Africa Expo held in Bandung, we walked sightseeing from one booth to another looking for something interesting to decor our home living and then we saw a booth in which some women with lots of pots in plastic bags standing in front of it.  It was the booth of Eka Karya. Apparently there were many variants of orchids which commonly found in the market sold there but in reasonable price. No wonder they bought up a lot of orchid plants.

Clockwise is Tanida pink dendrobium, white spot phalaenopsis, Nexia purple anthurium and yellow phalaenopsis.

Besides selling various kinds of orchids, Eka Karya also sells dry moss and hydrogel, but I don't know whether they are really effective in growing the plant well. Anyway worth a try, right? 

By the way, we bought 2 pots of dendrobium at Eka Karya. Curious to know what they are? Visit our next posting, ok?

Note:

Eka Karya

Jl. KH. Hasyim Ashari Blok D3/8

Jakarta

Phone: 021-63856231

The Orchid Asia Africa Expo (part 1)

A few weeks ago we visited the Orchid Asia Africa Expo which held on 9 - 13 May 20 2012. The location was at Bank Indonesia parking lot, Jl. Braga, Bandung - West Java.  Though we arrived quite early, there were already some visitors inside. The orchid expo was followed by dozens of participants with various types of booths just like the ones below.

Here you, the orchid lovers, will find various kinds of orchids in many colors and species.  From the very beginning seed (still tiny plants in the bottle)  up to the growing and blooming ones. From the ordinary one such as the  Phalaenopsis amabilis or in Indonesia called as 'Anggrek bulan', up to the rare species from Sumatra andKalimantan that are almost extinct. 

And these are some of the species that uncommonly seen. Beautiful, colorful, rare, and almost extinct. Very attractive aren't they?