Grow for the green

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

Patience is the gold of time

There is a proverb that goes “all good things come to those who wait.” It is a well known saying which holds a lot of truth. But, I have come to learn, it is a saying that is flawed, in that it is incomplete. Waiting alone is not enough. Good things do not come to those who wait. Good things come to those who wait, but who also actively do something about their situation whilst they are waiting. If waiting was all it took to have good things in life everyone could achieve their dreams because waiting is effortless. Good things rarely come effortlessly.

Health Benefits of Growing a Bonsai Tree

1.Growing and tending to bonsai trees is a wonderful hobby and a great stress reliever.
2. Bonsai trees require proper water, care, trimming, and fertilizing to be healthy. Constantly caring for your plant can help develop your patience.
3. Working with nature, including bonsai trees, can help you become a more peaceful person.
4. Indoor plants, including bonsai, can clean and help purify the air in your home or office.
5. Bonsai can help you get over your cold. Plants grown indoors can help fight fatigue, coughs, and sore throats.
6. Successfully growing and caring for a bonsai tree can leave you with a great sense of accomplishment which is very good for your health..

Christmas Bonsai Trees

Send a Christmas Bonsai as a gift for the holidays. They make a great ornament for Christmas and will add some holiday cheer to any household. Water your Christmas bonsai and it will grow and thrive inside any home for many years to come.

Bonsai nursery in Taipei

I had the opportunity to visit Mr. Chang-Hsing Ho's Bonsai nursery in Taipei. This is on the north side of the city, in a very pretty area not too far from the Grand Hotel. It was raining when we visited and there was no information available to describe the Bonsai. Although the people there were very friendly I wasn't able to learn much about the trees. The Bonsai were massive and impressive, with lots of deadwood.

All About Plants

It is clear for all to see that plants and foliage can look beautiful, and really brighten a space. Indoors and outdoors, plants play a big part in our everyday lives. However, the true impact of plants in interiors goes far beyond the aesthetics, providing benefits to health and wellbeing, productivity and financial savings.

Research into indoor plants has proven that: •Plants improve the efficiency of the workplace •Plants reduce absenteeism by reducing the effects of "Sick Building Syndrome" •Plants improve the quality of the environment •Plants reduce noise levels •Plants lower stress levels •Plants conserve energy by creating a micro-climate •Plants give structure to an office area and help to guide people around

Plants improve well-being and mental health of recovering patients

Recent research published in the academic journal, HortScience (USA Publication) finds that indoor plants have a positive effect on rehab patients. The research carried out in Norway with 436 coronary patients found that indoor plants in communal areas of a rehabilitation centre had a positive effect on self-reported well-being and mental health of the patients.

HOW TO THICKEN THE TRUNK OF YOUR BONSAI!

This trick is for that particular plant you find that seems to have the potential to become a nice bonsai but the trunk is very small in proportion. You will also find it somewhat helpful in creating a better taper. When pruning your newly created bonsai you should leave a branch low to the base of the trunk, even if this particular branch does not meet your esthetic requirements. Remember this branch is usually left on temporarily, but can be kept if it is helping you to achieve the overall shape you are striving for. What this trick accomplishes is to direct a strong amount of nutrients through the cambium of the trunk directly to this branch because it is the first branch the nutrients reach therefore sending less nutrients up the rest of the trunk to spread off to other branches. This extra flow of nutrients to the lowest part of the tree increases the rate the trunk thickens usually by double. When the trunk becomes proportionate you can then go ahead and remove this lower branch. On some species the desired effect can be reached in as short a time as 3-6 months.

HOW TO REDUCE THE LEAF SIZE ON YOUR BONSAI!

There are a few tricks to achieve this, here is one... you have a Bonsai that is desirable in all aspects accept leaf size and you're impatient to wait until it truly dwarfs itself according to its pot size. Here is what you do... go through the tree and cut all the leaves in half. That is right... I said in half!!! Especially the very large ones. You can do this at an angle, if you so desire, so the leaf looks more natural. This will trick the plant into growing a new generation of leaves that is only the size of the portion of leaf you removed. Hence, producing a smaller crop of leaves on your new growth. This will usually work the first time, but you may need to repeat the procedure again to achieve the reduction in leaf size that you require. It is important to remember to keep up on your daily spray misting immediately after cutting the leaves in half, this will reduce the amount of bruising you will see on the tips where you have cut. Also, remember to use a very sharp, clean pair of Bonsai shears.

Life is Beautiful

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

Life is beautiful. Let these Beautiful quotes remind us of the beauty of life.

Gong Xi Fa Cai 2012

新春將至，預祝龍年行大運，先拜個早年囉！Wishing you happiness, good fortune and prosperity in the new year!

冬至快乐

相传幸福是个美丽的玻璃球，跌碎散落世间每个角落。有的人拾到多些，有的人拾到少些，却没有谁能拥有全部。

我愿将我的分点给你，让你比别人更幸福！

Thought of the day!

Dynamic climates demand ultimate leadership. Your comfort zones are never secure or static.
As certain as the Sun rises and the World revolves, there will be Change. Change will impact on your comfort zones and your market share.
To manage the future, you must lead and be dynamic.
You must move with time.
Fortune not only favors the brave; it also favors the well-prepared and well-lead.

How To Grow Bonsai

How To Grow Bonsai - Growing bonsai is really therapeutic. Bonsai is an art in that requires small responsibility in starting out. Bonsai trees have been the vital art, similar to snowflakes, no dual bonsai trees demeanour alike.

Loving the Beauty of flowering plants is an combined reason to your bonsai, if we suffer flowering plants inside as most as we do outside, select the poetic flowering bonsai similar to Azalea or Jasmine, nonetheless there have been most to select from, move the Beauty of the outdoors-indoors.

When flourishing your bonsai outdoors, only as trees do, bonsai strew their leaves in the tumble as well as grow latest ones in the Spring.

Bonsai Trees/Plants need to be pruned, their trunks, roots as well as branches, so we will need to sense how to do this. It’s only the make the difference of learning, it’s not hard. For Beginners, we would indicate starting with the Juniper Bonsai, it is delayed flourishing as well as simpler to caring for.

Bonsai pots have been really shoal as well as reason the lot reduction roots, however, bonsai trees still need watering.. Bonsai have been exposed to dehydration, though once we sense “how to grow bonsai” there is no worrying! How most H2O the bonsai needs additionally depends upon if we have been flourishing it outside or indoor.

Bonsai do need to be re-potted, selecting the delayed grower is most appropriate to begin off with. Before Spring is the most appropriate time to do your re-potting. A Juniper bonsai is your most appropriate gamble for delayed flourishing as well as it is the good amateur bonsai! Choosing the latest pot for your bonsai, depends upon the distance of your tree. The incomparable the bonsai is, the incomparable the pot will need to be, see this isn’t so hard, is it!

Bonsai trees can be so rewarding when we operate the step by step beam upon how to grow bonsai. A step by step beam is the most appropriate approach to sense how to caring for your bonsai. Just be rebuilt to outlay time upon them as well as we will be rewarded.

Bonsai Trees have been additionally the value your family can pass down from era to generation, Yes they can live for most generations. By guidance how to grow bonsai, we can have the vital value to pass upon to your grandchildren as well as their children/grandchildren.

你擁有了多少？

《蝸居》裡面，宋思明說：「可以用錢解決的問題，也就不是問題了」確實如此，但是人的一生中，最奢侈的東西並不是擁有很多的財富就能同時擁有的。相反，懂得去欣賞、去發現生命中真正能讓我們有發自內心喜悅的「奢侈」品才是最重要的。

出 生一張紙，開始一輩子；
畢 業一張紙，奮鬥一輩子；
婚 姻一張紙，折磨一輩子；
做 官一張紙，鬥爭一輩子；
金 錢一張紙，辛苦一輩子；
榮 譽一張紙，虛名一輩子；
看 病一張紙，痛苦一輩子；
悼 詞一張紙，了結一輩子；
淡 化這些紙，明白一輩子；
忘 了這些紙，快樂一輩子 !

A wise man once sat in the audience and cracked a joke.. all of them laughed like crazy.. After a moment he cracked the same joke again & a little less people laughed this time... He cracked the same one again & no one laughed !!! Then he smiled and said ''when you cant laugh on the same joke again & again then why do you keep crying over the same thing over & over again'' FORGET the past and MOVE ON .........

Alone I can say, but together we can shout. Alone I can smile, but together we can laugh.
Alone I can enjoy, but together we can celebrate!

6 PRINCIPLES OF LIFE

No point using limited life to chase unlimited money.

• No point earning so much money you cannot live to spend it.
• Money is not yours until you spend it.
• When you are young, you use your health to chase your wealth; when you are old, you use your wealth to buy back your health. Difference is that, it is too late.
• How happy a man is, is not how much he has but how little he needs.
• No point working so hard to provide for the people you have no time to spend with.

Remember this -- We come to this world with nothing, we leave this world with nothing!

10 things to learn from Japan.

1. THE CALM
Not a single visual of chest-beating or wild grief. Sorrow itself
has been elevated.

2. THE DIGNITY
Disciplined queues for water and groceries. Not a rough word or a
crude gesture.

3. THE ABILITY
The incredible architects, for instance. Buildings swayed but didn’t fall.

4. THE GRACE
People bought only what they needed for the present, so everybody
could get something.

5. THE ORDER
No looting in shops. No honking and no overtaking on the roads.
Just understanding.

6. THE SACRIFICE
Fifty workers stayed back to pump sea water in the N-reactors. How
will they ever be repaid?

7. THE TENDERNESS
Restaurants cut prices. An unguarded ATM is left alone. The strong
cared for the weak.

8. THE TRAINING
The old and the children, everyone knew exactly what to do. And
they did just that.

9. THE MEDIA
They showed magnificent restraint in the bulletins. No silly
reporters. Only calm reportage.

10. THE CONSCIENCE
When the power went off in a store, people put things back on
the shelves and left quietly!

GOOD Morning

如果您今天早上醒來時
還算健康，恭喜您，因為有
一百萬人將活不過一星期。

If you woke up this morning
Fairly healthy, Congratulations, because
Million people will not live to past a week.

如果您不曾經歷戰爭的危險、
被監禁的寂寞、
被凌虐的痛苦、
或是飢寒交迫，
恭喜您，您比5億人還好命。


If you have never experienced the danger of war,
The loneliness of imprisonment,
The agony of torture,
Or cold and hunger,
Congratulations, you better fate than 5 million people.

如果您可以參加宗教活動
而不必擔心被騷擾、
逮捕、凌虐、或死亡，
恭喜您，您比15億人還自由。
If you can participate in religious activities
Without fear of harassment,
Arrest, torture, or death,
Congratulations, you have more freedom than 1.5 billion people .

如果您的冰箱裡有食物、
有衣服穿、
還有地方住、恭喜您，
您比全世界70%的人還富有。

If you have food,
Have clothes to wear,
There is a place to live, congratulations,
You are richer than 70% of the world

如果您在銀行有存款、
錢包裡有鈔票、
還有一些零錢，恭喜您，
您是全世界前10%的有錢人。
If you have saving in the bank,
Wallet with money,
There are some coin left, congratulations,
You are among the world's top 10% of the rich

如果您的雙親還健在，
而且沒有離婚，
您算是幸運兒。

If your parents are still alive,
And there is no divorce,
You be the lucky ones.

如果您經常抬頭帶著微笑，
而且心中感謝老天，
您是幸福的，
因為大部份的人可以辦到卻不這麼做。
If you often looked up with a smile,
And the heart to thank God,
You are happy,
Because most people can not do so.

如果您會握住某人的手、
或給他們一個擁抱、
或是拍拍他們的肩膀，
恭喜您，因為您是具有癒合人們心靈的能力。

If you are able to hold someone's hand,
Or give them a hug,
Or pat them on the shoulder,
Congratulations , because you are with the ability to heal people's hearts

如果您可以讀到這篇文章，
那是雙重幸運：
有人想到您這個朋友，
而且有15億人根本不識字。
If you can read this article
That is double fortunate:
Some people think of you as a friend,
And there are 1.5 billion people do not read.
You probably never think of


您大概從來沒想到過
自己是多麼幸福吧！？

You probably never thought
How happy you are now! ?