Zenxin Agri-Organic

When I was at Village Grocer at Bangsar Village recently, I stumpled upon a rack of green plants. Village Grocer opens everyday from 8.30am to 10.00pm.

The green was so fresh and nice, just like vegetables. At first I thought that they were edible Dragon Seedlings. But later when I read the poster, I realised that it's an ornamental plant.



The plant is the dragon fruit plant from the Hylocereus undatus family and is said to be an effective bio-purifier. It's not only refreshing and helps to reduce stress, it's also easily grown. So it is really suitable for home and office decorating and serves as a good gift for loved ones.

The two plants below are actually the same plant. Both are at different growth stage. At the beginning, it will have only two leaves. Then as the plant grows, little stems that look like cactus will appear. The bigger the 'cactus' the smaller the leaves till they dissappear.



Below are pics of the plant in the various available pot designs.





Plant Condition Rating: 5 | All the plants are in excellent condition. The pots are all placed on a shelf.



Click here for direction to Village Grocer at Bangsar Baru. If you are in the Klang Valley, you can also find this plant at Sweet Pea Floral Studio at Jaya 33. Sweet Pea operates from 9.30am to 9.30pm daily.

Or if you are at Air Hitam in Johor, you can get it at Zenxin Organic Park.

CONTACT DETAILS

ZENXIN Agri-Organic Food (KL) Sdn Bhd
8, Jalan BPU
Bandar Puchong Utama
47100 Puchong
Selangor
Tel: 603-5882 4360 & 4361
Fax: 603-5882 4362
Email: zenxinkl@zenxin.com.my

DRAGON SEEDLINGS RETAILERS:

Village Grocer Sdn Bhd
G1, Ground Floor, Bangsar Village,
1, Jalan Telawi 1,
Bangsar Baru,
59100 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 603-2282 0633
Fax: 603-2284 5633

Sweet Pea Floral Studio (Pics below)
G-17 Ground Floor, Jaya 33,
Jalan Semangat,
46100 Petaling Jaya
Selangor
Tel: 603-7955 8112 & 8128
Fax: 603-7955 8128

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GreenBuzz: What's Growing?

Last weekend, I paid a second visit to Delima Tani, one of the nurseries at Selangor Green Lane, Sungai Buloh. While there I had a good converstion with the nursery owner, Albert Goh, and his wife. Well, I discovered that they certainly know all their plants very well :-)

At first I was only interested to find out more about his flower promotion that's coming up in the first and second weekend of December. If you love flowering plants like Dianthus, Cosmos, Marigolds, Melampodium, Petunia, Verbena, Portulaca, Aster and Vinca, mark your calendar now. They are all fresh from the farm.



Many times when I visit a nursery, I would stumble upon places that I am not allowed to enter.



This time round, not only do I get to see what's behind a 'No Entry' post, I managed to get an insight of what's growing (or cooking!) at this nursery.

While most parts of the nursery are stocked up with plants that are offered to customers, there is a section that is allocated for growing seeds. I saw many seedlings that were on the racks that day. Most of the plant names that I spotted on the tags are rather new to me. Once this seedlings mature, they will be ready for consumers, like us, to buy.



If you are crazy over the current popular little bird plant, you may want to have a Red-bird plant (pic below) that is from the same family. Some of us may remember this plant during our younger days. I think it was popular in the 1970's. Hmm... if you know what I am talking about, you may have just revealed your age :-)



The other special plant that is almost ready to go to the shelves that day was the Lucky Twisted Grass. The grass is visually appealing with its straight and twisted foliage.



Angelonia 'serena' (pic below) is another attractive dainty plant that will surely win the hearts of many.



Click here to find your way to Delima Tani.

I hope that you find this news interesting, as I did. What nurseries are buying and growing are what we, consumers, are going to have later in our gardens. Agree?

I congratulate Delima Tani for having a special interest in growing plants from seeds, for this way we can have greater choices, varieties and species! Their efforts are definitely going to make gardening more interesting for us!!

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Bukit Jalil Nursery

At the entrance of Bukit Jalil Nursery is a huge signage, a few big fan palms and pots of plants that are placed neatly in a simple fashion.

You will definitely not miss this nursery if you are travelling along the Puchong-Sungai Besi Highway!



Opening everyday from 9.30am to 6.30pm, this nursery is a wholesaler and retailer of flowers and fruit trees. Besides that they also do landscaping work which include design, woodwork deco and pond work.

Plant Variety Rating: 4 | They have lots of popular tropical trees, palms, shrubs, trees, ferns, climbers and ground covers.

You can find many flower plants in one of the sheltered areas. Those in hanging baskets are petunias, begonia, vinca as well as some ferns while on the racks are small potted plants like anthurium, oxalis, dwarf palms, money plant, alocasia, spathiphyllum plants, mosquito plant and other ferns.



Out in the open space are bougainvilleas, ixora, angelonia and also crinum.



If you are thinking of getting shrubs or trees for your garden, there are plenty here!



Aside from the regular plants, they also have some bonsai, yucca, ficus and elephant yam plants.



Plant Condition Rating: 4 | All plants are in good condition.

They are lots of nice ferns like sword fern, money plant, agloanema, anthurium, palm, calathea, syngonium, dieffenbachia and spathiphyllum.



Layout Rating: 4 | Overall the nursery is spacious and easy to move about. There is a particular space where they have lots of pots, some are on the ground and some on the racks. It is easy to look at each type of pots here.



Garden Products Rating: 4 | They have lots of small garden ornaments that are placed on racks. They also sell lots of plastic pots, ceramic pots, seeds, fertiliser and garden accessories.




Bukit Jalil Nursery is located near the Bukit Jalil Fire & Rescue Station. Click here for the map.

CONTACT DETAILS

Bukit Jalil Nursery Sdn Bhd
Next to Lot 37889
Puchong-Sungai Besi Highway
(Lebuhraya Bukit Jalil)
57000 Kuala Lumpur
Mobile: 6012-232 2446 (Mr Lee Kok Leeh)

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