What an AWARD-WINNING Tropical HOME & GARDEN looks like | Landscaping ideas with easy plants

This is Borneo Mansion. Join me in this tour of a house that embraces the outdoor and a beautiful garden located in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. A feast for the eyes with alocasias, heliconias, crotons, dieffenbachias and most plants featured are easy, low maintenance ones. Landscaping ideas for the frontyard, courtyard, backyard and in-depth look into specific plant and their care tips. 9 Gardening Plantcare and Tips included in here!
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[@amoijoy573]

This is so stimulating to me. The beautiful is breathtaking. I dream of spaces like that. One day I’ll have a garden. The family is so generous to share their private space with us. It’s appreciated.

[@felyhuelva19]

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[@down-to-earth-mystery-school]

Hello from the Chihuahuan desert in Mexico, thank you and the family so much for the tour. So interesting to see what we call houseplants, become trees in the right climate 🌴

[@EmyEminggard]

Tropical flowers are a great source of income too. We plant it and then sell it to the market. Some of our buyers use it for decorations like wedding,birthdays etc.Hello from the Philippines ❤️

[@ralphdunn860]

Dear Irene, I've just discovered your channel. I love the gardens you show. As I'm in a dry area of Mexico I can only dream about most of the plants but I do get to grow Strelitzia which give a tropical look and are not very thirsty. I will echo what a few other people have said: I use headphones to listen and only get your voice in the left side and music, which is way too loud to hear your voice above it, on the right side. That said, you are very charming and I don't mind at all your arm gesticulations. Don't change, you're perfect. And the best host.

[@estelitaabana9506]

Vry well said Ralph, Irene s my fav! I'm fr d phil

[@jessicapinto3817]

same! I thought my headphones had broken! But then the music appeared and that one would show up on the right side. Her videos have always been symmetrical so I hope this was just equipment failure and resolved in the meantime

[@zayanyassin]

My wife and I have been enjoying your series Irene! Would love it if you could start by showing the overall landscape before going into individual plants. Would like to understand how one compose and make use of their garden within the given space.

[@leafing.around]

Am gonna buy a drone soon that will let me do this better! Thanks for feedback😊

[@jdsspace718]

Wish to own a house like this one day… tropical garden are very pleasing …❤

[@rjhemedes]

Magic is adorable. Even if he peed a little, you should carry him more often when you do your garden tours. He would be the perfect plant mascot. I have two pomeranians myself.

[@leafing.around]

I don't have any pets and am a little terrified of dogs actually! But he seemed pretty harmless and soooo cute!

[@pamelahall361]

What a beautiful tropical garden and a gorgeous house. I love it.

[@jazzyjoyce118]

Enjoyed the home and garden tour. The plant with blue-green leaves, maroon purple underside is a Lily Boat or Moses-in-the-Cradle.

[@leafing.around]

What a cute name! Thanks Joyce for the plant identity!

[@jazzyjoyce118]

@@leafing.around 🙂

[@melankollymonroe]

You said about making a tea out of the "Moses in the Cradle (Tradescantia spathacea)?" Never heard about it. Mine are getting tiny white flowers inside a clam shaped leaf at the base of each leaf node. I've literally been binge watching Leafing Around's beautiful tropical plant videos for days now. LOL, you said the heat was making you forgetful but I could never imagine that anyone could ever remember that many different scientific names for so many different philodendrons, anthuriums, and aolocasias

[@madhavimotamarry7434]

Tropical home is very Tropical beautiful inside outside owner deserves an award 👏

[@rgb5031]

I think that 'Bee' may have been a 'Hummingbird'. They're tiny and tend to sound like a Bee, because they flutter their wings so fast. Wonderful, delightful and very beautiful, gentle little pollinators.

[@daviddelaharpe6474]

Hi they are called carpenter bees, dont sting, but rather scary to see their size. They love boring holes in your house beams to lay their eggs. So know as carpenter bees.

[@ghrbaa6727]

We don’t have hummingbirds in Malaysia, or Asia for that matter..

[@jeanettehoehn8452]

🤗das haus und der garten 🌱ist ein Traum 💚thank you irene,das wir das anschauen dürfen,ich liebe den teddybär sog 😉

[@kussrialamsjah9082]

*THANK YOU* , Irene ....salam dari Indonesia💕🌻🇲🇨

[@pattin4015]

That is a beautiful house with a wide view into the lush garden! I laughed at your OOPS comment about cross contamination when cutting... love that humor (well, fact)....thanks for the laugh and a little getaway (it felt like I was there)!

[@salviasalvia5437]

Living in that house must be like living in paradise!!!! Thank you so much, I've enjoyed this video a lot.

[@paulwillingham3449]

That is a really lovely garden and house. It's wonderful how both merge together and makes it feel at times that house is an extension of the garden and vice versa. That was a really enjoyable video Irene, many thanks.

[@jayasinha7755]

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[@cedricbernat]

Quelle beauté paradisiaque !!! 😍🤩🤩💖 Félicitations !!! C'est magnifique, bravo !!!

[@21seashells]

What a beautiful home! The flowering vine with the bee looks like thumbergia grandiflora.

[@Angel-xm7fw]

This garden is so inspiring I hadn’t even heard of some of these I’m fairly new to the plant community ☺️

[@karenjoncour6151]

When i first clicked on this video it looked good but I didn’t realise it was by leafing around. Thrilled to see Irene pop up with her great enthusiasm and lovely voice. Thanks for the maintenance tips too Irene!

[@ivanhawkins3552]

Guess you learn from watching the video

[@Hiyaaydi]

The home and garden we aspire to have, wow!

[@siewlianchi681]

To protect yr modesty 🤣🤣

[@clearwaterbeachhomesearchm5957]

Beautiful home beautiful garden. Beautiful family. So nice to let us see her home

[@jennbi1627]

Soo fresh ...want my home to be like this

[@Iskiebabes]

This is such a beautiful space! Thanks for bringing this to us. So therapeutic

[@josephinebrevig8748]

Heaven. What a beautiful home.

[@tatygonzalez8664]

What a beautiful home & garden!!! It's a dream! 🏡🌈❤️

[@billyandrew711]

What a beautiful house & a stunning garden.

[@obayedh]

A beautiful home indeed! Much thanks for sharing.

[@creatireci2859]

Beautiful home. I love Kuching and Sarawak.

[@wildlifegardenssydney7492]

Thank you so much for the wonderful tour of this award winning house and garden. How amazing a house inspired by The Mulu Pinnacles! (For me, regular visits to the astonishingly spectacular Mulu Caves were the absolute highlight of living and working just over the border in Brunei). The courtyard architecture plants and glass really envelopes this house in tropical plants. So beautiful, I felt like I was drinking that lushness in. I loved the antique door and sanded sculptural trunks. What was that unique croton? Is it related to that mother daughter plant? (in another of your tours) the plant with the two leaves off the stem. The huge heliconias were the 🤩 both for flower and form.

[@leafing.around]

Oooh you have spent some time here! I'd be heading to Miri 1st time in my life next month...and gosh you remember my videos better than I do! Yes I vaguely remember now this mother and daughter croton plant at Junie's garden..thanks for jogging my memory!

[@k_flower1984]

Wow,Khu vườn này thật thư giãn,Ngôi nhà độc đáo về thiết kế thật tuyệt vời

[@SorayaAzizSouleymane]

That tree that shed it's bark is so gorgeous. It reminds me of that supermodel with vitiligo. I love her! 😍😍😍

[@leafing.around]

I was just telling a friend that model is just like a variegated leaf!!😀

[@foliagecove355]

Such a magical home 🌱🌱🌱❤️

[@rosehill1595]

Oh thank you so much for this tour - I got so many great ideas for our own house and garden. We have a big sideways bent tree branch just like the one you showed - in the courtyard outside their dining area. DUH - instead of a bare big tree branch which has irritated me no end - we can grow ferns, orchids or bromeliads on that big sideway's branch. Sweet - problem solved. Great house and garden and fantastic art too. Loved all the leather and the white baby grand. You were right, this is a relatively simple, easy-care garden, although obviously well established over many years.

[@leafing.around]

Thanks Rose! Yes and if you can find at your place...maybe even staghorns and tilansias/airplants to hang off the tree!

[@francescap8210]

Amazing green setting! Those huge leaves! Wonderful. The world is beauty and greenery everywhere.💚

[@kadali1818]

This is like fantasy world for me. Tq for shooting such a heavenly house and made it available for us

[@k.s5889]

Beautiful, lovely plants, so relaxing

[@heinhtet2234]

My left ear enjoyed this video. Thanks ❤

[@muqaddisasaeed7457]

Lovely place,lovely plants.The interior has a more industrial touch to it.❤️

[@rheashumblesanctuary9976]

Beautiful home and garden,Wow😯❤️

[@bernikeadiwidjaja4367]

Beautiful home and garden😍💚

[@vgohills11]

Thanks for the tip Irene. This a fantastic garden home that you have shown.

[@margaretmaguire3329]

Great house and garden thanks for your delightful commentary 👍🌺😀

[@sylviagutierrez7676]

So so beautiful! Love this home and gardens!! 💚🪴🌵🌱

[@sandragoerlich7134]

Another beautiful home and tropical garden, heliconias are so beautiful, thanks for sharing!!!

[@daviddelaharpe6474]

I love heliconia too, but you really have to be on top of yhem, they grow like weeds. Good tip Irene to have the plsnt enclosed.

[@jenniferpaes8930]

Such an incredible house and garden.

[@debjanibhowmick5870]

Beautiful home and garden. ❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@stelladepalm2361]

Beautiful home and garden thx for sharing .

[@user-eo7nk7cu3f]

What’s a beautiful house and garden! Enjoy every second of the video! Thanks

[@mlvalero2037]

Beautiful home and huge Garden..i love watching your videos Miss Irine.. Thank you for Tourinspiring..

[@priyanijayawickrema9844]

Beautiful. Very peaceful place

[@a_chic_life1439]

house/garden goals! 😍

[@zalehaburude7752]

Truly wonderful.... Thank you for sharing...Irene!

[@blacksinglemomhomesteadont6454]

Another beautiful home to and garden. I love the really tall in leafy plants. I took screenshots of my the names to try and find them locally for my gardens.

[@elmerparedes1098]

Kuching is a fantastic little city. I spent a couple of weeks there on my way to Sabah. Fantastic people, fantastic food. Phenomenal culture. I miss my Malay brothers there (I’m Filipino)

[@bethyoung3654]

So beautiful! Thank you for the tour.

[@nagasaritha4716]

Thank u so much for showing this tropical garden 👍

[@sidlee7205]

It looks award winning indeed!

[@thegasolinetree]

just simply beautiful

[@marielincorvaja3848]

Wow amazing a true dream home .

[@mindanavarro6811]

Wow!.this garden is soo relaxing!😀 The house is unique in design..i love it❤️❤️❤️, thanks for sharing Ms. Irene😘

[@tsnorthwesttropicals4078]

I love watching you experience for all of us these exquisite plants... but you are so shady🌴😎🤣 I hope you disinfected your pruning shears while cutting other people's botanical gardens and insinuating they have diseased leves🌿🤣 Leafing around is a perfect name!💚 This is one of my favorite videos now!! Bringing design, Art and Garden together

[@brigittahoffmann9283]

this is an incredible home, ow wooow.... what a beautiful garden, gorgeous plants :)

[@manalani3724]

i love your videos…i appreciate the tips …sooo helpful…thank you

[@helenmccaig8299]

I love how professional and chill you were when the dog had a pee on your hand x you rock

[@leafing.around]

Thank you!! I really tried not to freak out in front of a camera😄

[@blackbear7792]

I have missed your video my fav. Is your backyard in the rain. And the one where you were dreaming. ,👍❤️

[@sreedevivn3010]

Thank u for the heliconia tips. Lovely place.

[@laurabarrios4535]

Un lugar soñado. Saludos!

[@iriliral6366]

What a beautiful garden😍

[@jutikadas8769]

Thanks for sharing.Lovely!!

[@cecilerocha693]

Thank you for sharing this garden/house tour.❤️😍

[@Keyrunnet]

What a great video, very soothing and relaxing.

[@dolcepescas6153]

It was funny seeing the dog passed back and forth LOL so cute

[@joemug4079]

This place is phenomenal!

[@kozenfarm]

wonderful tour Irene! Inspiring ways to integrate plants and home harmoniously - please do more of these types of videos! Aloha from Hawaii - -

[@sandraw50]

Will use the several tips that you share. So much inspiration and ideas from your videos...Beautiful house and garden. Thanks for sharing.... can't wait for the next surprise video!

[@gardeningforfunandlongevit6076]

Gorgeously beautiful garden and I love your video style.

[@grandmauti]

Love the house and the garden aswell, but the most important is you make an amazing video with a great angle

[@Smiley_101]

I always wanted to grow my tropical flowers n plants and to wake up with fresh cuts everyday with them . The organic perfume is so delights . There is a big diff growing organic vs in states when it come to fresh cuts flowers n plants . 😅 I used to wake up with them every mornings every time I go back to Vietnam … even the foods n fruits is just so diff maybe it really depends where you grow them

[@saminanaz7301]

Thanx, that was fabulous

[@chun1983tw]

Thanks so much idea for my garden. Very beautiful garden

[@kathlynblack3517]

I have a tropical garden in a semi-tropical zone 8 in Texas. Frost tender plants I keep in pots and move them inside for the winter. Outside, I leave in the ground to die back and return each year, are Aspidistra (this one is evergreen all winter), Canna, Banana, Fatsia, Alocasia, Colocasia, Amaryllis, Ferns, Turmeric, Ginger, Yucca recurvifolia (soft leaf Yucca), Coral Bean for it's exotic flowers and Cordyline. I also grow flowering Azaleas, Gardenias, Hydrangeas, Hibiscus varieties, etc.

[@leafing.around]

Sounds like a roller coaster ride having to move them in and outdoor, letting them die back and grow again. Kudos to you...really a lot of effort!

[@kathlynblack3517]

@@leafing.around When you love plants like I do, it's not such a roller coaster ride. The dying back and growing again takes no effort. And I enjoy my tropical plants inside during the Winter.

[@ivancadiz.]

Dear Kathlyn thanks for sharing some of the plant names, I'm really curios of 2 things hope you can answer. Banana is left outside during winter and back to life in spring? Has it fruit ever? Thank you and great day.

[@aneliseferchojung6734]

It's amaizing! I Love your vídeos!!

[@shekhar_sahu]

Loved the house so much. The plant with purple undertone leaf seems to be a verity of boat lily.

[@salimaasadi542]

Wow sooo beautiful

[@dulceportillo4061]

Beautiful garden!!

[@nieleduardmontejo7930]

I love you content from PHILIPPINES. ❤️❤️❤️ GOD FIRST

[@plantheartbeats]

Thanks was beautiful, fun and inspiring! Thanks!!!!

[@loucadoida3327]

Oh wow I really enjoyed this video,?this garden and the home is beautiful

[@dileenavikas8421]

Woow. Feel fresh...full of greenary... good video

[@imadesuparta6705]

love the garden

[@DB_ER]

Excellent tour once again..girl, thank you

[@nwakaegonwani1468]

This is amazing.

[@kolapyellow7631]

Beautiful home.

[@bencardenas11]

I love how you pull out your pruners and start chopping plants. 💙😂💙😂💙 Irene, you bring so much light and inspiration to my life! SUCH a beautiful home! Thank you for sharing!!! 💙🌱

[@leafing.around]

Hehehehe...thanks for appreciating that! Anyone else wants free gardening services? I can vlog and garden at the same time!😄

[@bencardenas11]

@@leafing.around Haha, you are better than me! I can barely walk without bumping into one of my plants! 💙😂

[@annierosle9961]

Another great video and great garden story Irene. Thank you for sharing.

[@leafing.around]

Thanks Annie Rosie!,🌹

[@ana-ln4es]

Beautiful home and garden

[@edithadeguzman8636]

beautiful home n garden,thanks for sharing us.ur so very inspiring doing ur garden in good looking for us to inspired!!!!i will make that as my model.

[@veemerklen9333]

The purple blue green seems to be what it is communly called oyster plant. We have them everywhere in South Florida. Thanks for this beautiful documentary Irene

[@lovethegarden.kumariyeline4835]

Amazing garden.

[@anomasiribaddana1767]

Couldn’t go without leaving a comment 😊. This is a extremely soothing home and garden. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤