person holding black ceramic mug — Photo: Jonathan Kemper The rooftop nursery at Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden demonstrates how even professionally tended gardens can suffer severe leaf scorch by…
body of water during daytime — Photo: Leighton Smith The rooftop garden at the Kerry Hotel in Hung Hom, with its sculptural layering of Agave attenuata, Philodendron xanadu and a…
a group of potted plants — Photo: Zoe / Unsplash The Hong Kong Flower Market in Prince Edward is a labyrinth of over one hundred retailers, supplying the city with…
Hong Kong’s public housing estates are home to over 1,200 species of urban insects, a figure that underscores the constant pest pressure faced by balcony and rooftop gardeners. The Hidden Arsenal of Beneficial Insects Most gardeners...
Understanding Hong Kong’s Persistent Pest Threats Hong Kong’s 1,100-square-kilometre territory includes more than 300 parks and an ever-expanding network of private balconies that collectively host a surprisingly narrow spectrum of...
Hong Kong’s urban density pushes the cultivated footprint of many homes to no more than a modest balcony or a sliver of rooftop perforated by air-conditioner exhausts. This compression, far from limiting ambition, forces a particular...
The Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens, established in 1864, hold the territory’s oldest surviving stand of Bauhinia × blakeana. For practising home gardeners, this single grafting lineage is a living timetable—its messy,...
O·PARK1, Hong Kong’s pioneering organic resources recovery centre on Lantau, now diverts over 80,000 tonnes of food waste annually into a nutrient-dense soil improver called Food Waste Compost. This locally produced amendment, alongside...
Brighten Floriculture in Mong Kok stocks a bewildering array of soil conditioners, but not all deliver under a subtropical monsoon. Understanding which amendments survive the July-to-September barrage of heavy rain and humidity separates a...
The soils across much of Hong Kong’s built-up areas are compacted fill, capped with a thin layer of imported topsoil. In older districts on Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, the native substrate is highly weathered granite—free-draining...
