In Bintulu now. After spending a month in Kuching we miss the garden flowers here. Thus early this morning I made cuttings of heliconias, alpinias and crotons. They were a magnificient show. Alpinias are ornamental gingers that like semi-shade and its roots love rich and moist soil conditions. A favourite of mine is the Red Ginger ( Alpinia purpurata) due to its attractive red or scarlet bracts. Today I saw one inflorescence with a number of plantlets from which I normally propagate the plant apart from the usual way of splitting the rhizomes from the mother plant to mutiply its numbers.
Then I noticed the new variety of heliconia which I brought from Kuching a few months ago producing red and yellow bracts different from others in my collection so far. I have yet to find the common name for this species ( see below).
Today I attempt to make a composition in three stages as illustrated below.
Arrangement # 141 ( in 3 stages)
After adding three varieties of heliconias to the single red ginger I find the display lacking in accent. Thus I added the multi-coloured, variegated, curled and twisted leaves of the croton.
I am settled for this simple composition and glasly name it .... Brilliant Bracts.
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