About Us

“ When gardeners garden, it is not just plants that grow, but the gardeners themselves.” - Ken Druse

The nursery, or the heliconia 'factory' as some called it, is run by cheery couple Alex and Aida. About a decade ago, Alex's fingers turned green when he thought the eatery, which his mum was running needed a makeover of sort and transformed the restaurant into a chic garden bistro. To his delight, the patrons loved it. Before he knew it, a small nursery was born right at the outskirt of Kuala Lumpur. The business literally bloomed, and needing much more space, in the year 2000 he moved the business eastward to Janda Baik and landed on a two acre land. He couldn't have picked a better place and the folks of Kampung Cheringgin.A scenic and quiet little village in Janda Baik surrounded by hills never look back. From then on...its history.

Now on a 15 acre site, sits the largest heliconia 'factory' in Malaysia, and the man at the helm is touted as the King of Heliconiaheliconia. There are well over a hundred species of ginger, calathea, musachea, and of course heliconia. This factory, practically a botanical 'laboratory' where imported tropical exotics from Hawaii, the Carribean and Latin America are successfully bred and cross-bred expanding into 'new' species. His success has turned him into an agro-academician, where you'd find him lecturing to under-graduates at local universities. His expertise is also being sought by the Malaysian Ministry of Agriculture, and the Malaysian Agricultural Reasearch and Development Institute (MARDI).

The success of this couple is attributed to their great passion in what they do. They simply wanted to be different, and their creativity have steered them ahead of the competition. Their business ethics and motto is - "Caring for the environment", and Alex painstakingly ensures in his landscaping works the harmony between plants and insects to achieve the all-important equilibrium.

The magic of their 'secret garden' lies in the simplicity of design, which could easily be duplicated, yet it would be different each time...as if you're seeing it for the first time.

... Musaceae is a botanical name for a family of flowering plants. The family is native to the tropics of Africa and Asia. The plants have a large herbaceous growth habit with leaves with overlapping basal sheaths that form a pseudostem making some members appear to be woody trees secret garden

'Green fingers' are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart. A good garden cannot be made by somebody who has not developed the capacity to know and love growing things. - Russell Page