Tropical Gardening

Tuesday, January 10, 2023

A Guide for Independent-Minded Scientists

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I have just published a book entitled A Guide for Independent-Minded Scientists. This is available free of charge from the website of FRIM (...
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Sunday, May 01, 2022

Avocados that flower and fruit twice a year

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The Malaysian climate is so uniform that every day is like every other day. The temperature and humidity are the same throughout the year. T...
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Sunday, June 20, 2021

Amorphophallus leaf mystery explained

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Descriptions of  Amorphophallus have always emphasized that the leaves emerge from its corm one at a time, with a leafless resting period b...
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Thursday, October 15, 2020

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  Growing nangka  ( Artocarpus heterophyllus )  I predict Nangka Royale is going to be the next big thing in the world of fruits after Duria...
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Friday, July 03, 2020

Do folia fertilisers work?

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My gardener recently applied foliar fertiliser to the shade garden of the Secret Garden of 1 Utama and we were amazed by the improveme...
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Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Biochar for gardeners

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Biochar is charcoal used to improve the quality of soil for growing plants. Biochar particles mixed into soil will make the soil loose and f...
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Dr Francis Ng
Consultant Botanist, BSc(Tasmania), DPhil(Oxford). Previous positions: Forest Research Institute Malaysia; Food and Agriculture Org. of the UN; Center for International Forestry Research. I research plants and gardens, manage the rooftop garden known as the Secret Garden of 1 Utama, write books and scientific papers and edit a forestry journal. My publications may be found by searching under F.S.P. Ng for scientific papers and Francis S.P. Ng for other works.
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