So Golden Yellow in the Sunshine. Gardenia carinata, Airport Park, Pan Pacific Hotel, KLIA, Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia
For early flights out of KLIA, I've stayed at the airport the night before. Usually though I've arrived after dark. But this afternoon was a glorious one full of sunshine and high, dark, threatening Nimbocumulus clouds, and here I was already. I'd never realised there's such a pleasant park for walking right between the hotel and the airfield proper... So after rooming my duffel bag, I set out right away.
Nice borders with a variety of trees, verges with my favorite weeds like Wedelia, Tridax procumbens, and even some sun-dried remains of Merremia hirta. And then there was a row of Gardenia Trees, curving around the perimeter and along a roadway.
This is a six-lobed Gardenia carinata. Standing on a pile of ornamental landscaping boulders, I could just grasp a branch with a flower to take a closer look, and, of course, a photograph. ('Hati-hati", be careful, called a lady lawn tender..., and she smiled happily when I ambled over later to show her my photos.) I understand these Gardenias are often planted along streets and roads, and come to think of it, I believe I have on occasion seen them. But then the flowers were to high for me to look at properly. The KLCC park - near the Mosque - also has a couple.
The Great Carolus Linnaeus named Gardenias after Alexander Garden (1730-1791). Garden was a Scottish naturalist and physician, who practised in Charleston, South Carolina from 1752 to 1783. A partisan of the British in the American War for Independence, he 'fled' to London, England. During his American years he'd sent many naturalist specimens to Europe, notably also to Linnaeus. Thus the name of these pretty plants, shrubs, trees demonstrates Linnaeus's gratitude. And I myself am grateful too for having come early and seeing this Sunny Wonder up close...
So Golden Yellow in the Sunshine. Gardenia carinata, Airport Park, Pan Pacific Hotel, KLIA, Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia
For early flights out of KLIA, I've stayed at the airport the night before. Usually though I've arrived after dark. But this afternoon was a glorious one full of sunshine and high, dark, threatening Nimbocumulus clouds, and here I was already. I'd never realised there's such a pleasant park for walking right between the hotel and the airfield proper... So after rooming my duffel bag, I set out right away.
Nice borders with a variety of trees, verges with my favorite weeds like Wedelia, Tridax procumbens, and even some sun-dried remains of Merremia hirta. And then there was a row of Gardenia Trees, curving around the perimeter and along a roadway.
This is a six-lobed Gardenia carinata. Standing on a pile of ornamental landscaping boulders, I could just grasp a branch with a flower to take a closer look, and, of course, a photograph. ('Hati-hati", be careful, called a lady lawn tender..., and she smiled happily when I ambled over later to show her my photos.) I understand these Gardenias are often planted along streets and roads, and come to think of it, I believe I have on occasion seen them. But then the flowers were to high for me to look at properly. The KLCC park - near the Mosque - also has a couple.
The Great Carolus Linnaeus named Gardenias after Alexander Garden (1730-1791). Garden was a Scottish naturalist and physician, who practised in Charleston, South Carolina from 1752 to 1783. A partisan of the British in the American War for Independence, he 'fled' to London, England. During his American years he'd sent many naturalist specimens to Europe, notably also to Linnaeus. Thus the name of these pretty plants, shrubs, trees demonstrates Linnaeus's gratitude. And I myself am grateful too for having come early and seeing this Sunny Wonder up close...