Our Wild Garden In Patar (Part 2)
It’s nice to have a sensible 16-megapixel primary camera on your phone that you can use on those point and shoot subjects with a handy and compact phone. The truth is, I haven’t bought a replacement yet for my broken Canon Ixus camera so I am using all the three cameras on my tab and cellphones.
Going home is such a memorable thing. Even if we only stayed there overnight, I was able to visit those fruit trees some of which I helped Dad plant and nurture when he was still alive. They have a little plot for veggies now. I could no longer identify all the flowering plants growing there.
Not familiar with this flower.
I planned of taking home some shoots of this but I forgot.
When we woke up, our car was already clean. My brother took care of it.
San Francisco? I guess…
This driftwood has been in one corner of the garden since I can remember.
This hammock, spent a few minutes swinging myself here.
Love this bloom but I can’t also identify it.
A mixture of different plants…
Every time we come home, we always have buko juice at the ready.
Healthy and lovely bromeliads.
A white Bougainvillea
Love to have this color in my garden.
Love these double-petaled blooms too.
When I last came home, that street light in front of the house attached to the coconut tree was almost leveled with it. Now the tree is grown.
What’s this again? I’m hopeless.
Took shot of my nephew’s house near our place, a few meters across the road.
Countryside scenery that I’ve missed for so long. I brought home two jackfruits which I will cook later.
Latest Blooms
So I wouldn’t have to adjust these high res shots, I am posting them all here. So glad for the garden visit a while ago.
Pretty, pretty flowers in almost every tip. My dwarf pink Plumeria
My Orange lily. Planted them in several pots at the back of the garden and they are flowering now.
My ever reliable and sturdy Crossandra.
Yellow Shrimp plants. Replanted a few cuttings a few months again and they are now blooming too.
Why do I keep forgetting the name of this plant?
My blue ternatea. It has so many pods and I don’t know what to do with them. I collected the dried ones to give to friends and for future planting.
A Shrimp plant in different color and different shape.
I keep uprooting this one but it keeps on blooming. It is susceptible to aphids.
Ah, this is it. My kadyos (pigeon pea). Finally, I could see the flowers at the tip. It won’t take long before harvest. So excited.
I am nurturing an Orange Bougainvillea but it is taking so long to flower.
And it’s that kind of peace and quiet that you can only find in a garden.
Morning At The Garden
I wonder how many calories I burned doing three hours of gardening this morning. Yes, I started early around 6 am and stopped by almost 9 am with only a cup of coffee to go and the company of our “makulit” dog Noki. I am not done yet trimming the carabao grass. And I have to cut some dried leaves of my prayer plants.
A passive pursuit but a good morning exercise….gardening, that is. Anyway, I want to see the garden at its best this coming Christmas. My Bougainvillea blooms are doing a crazy dance in the morning breeze. I just love those clustered pink flowers. Once it starts flowering, it does not stop. It is a perennial plant and just right for our sunny weather. Our neighbor gave me some cuttings of cherries. I wonder if they will grow in our climate here. I’ll just try to grow them…
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More Greens
I told you in a previous blog post about our Gardeners’ party yesterday. Here’s my loot. I don’t actually know its name but I love its variegated leaves and the way it is growing. Had to find a bigger pot for it.
I re-potted this white grass two weeks ago but our Shih Poo Oreo loves to play with its leaves.
Just trying to put more greens indoors.
More Veggies On The Table Please
My left ankle still hurts when I accidentally step on uneven surfaces at the garden. And here I thought it has healed well. Now I am afraid to use the ladder to trim the blue ternatea vine which is invading my kalamansi tree. I am thinking my kalamansi tree might die it it becomes covered by the vines. I could always plant new blue ternatea but it is hard to wait for kalamansi to bear fruits. It usually takes years.
The burgundy okra I planted a few months ago is now bearing flowers and fruiting too. I wonder what’s the difference between the green one this, are they more nutritious. Burgundy looks lovely though than the green. I took a photo this morning but the light was so bright, it came a little blurry. I don’t want t go back and take another shot again.
The three shrubs of pigeon…
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Blue Ternate, Anyone?
Every day I would harvest blue ternatea flowers and usually give them to our neighbor who air dries them. Her daughter wants to bring them back to the US. She said when she came here that dried blue ternatea flowers are so expensive in their area. Early this morning, I harvested more and gave them to our neighbor. Lucky me, I saw a dried ternatea fruit and gave it to her too. It’s hard to see if there are more fruits because the plant is so robust and healthy, you could see flowers every day. It rained yesterday so there were more.
Last Saturday, I gave some to my friend who came over for my birthday. She was so happy, made them into juice and mixed them with rice for that lovely blue rice look. And yes, it is an anti-oxidant. She sent me this picture of the flowers that she arranged before cooking.
I really love its blue colors. So arresting. Looking forward to see more fruits of the vine so I could give some too to my friends.
Clitoria ternatea, commonly known as Asian pigeonwings, bluebellvine, blue pea, butterfly pea, cordofan pea and Darwin pea, is a plant species belonging to the Fabaceae family.
Wednesday Thoughts
I replanted Sansevieria a while ago. I wonder why they are also called Mother-in-Law’s tongue. How have they earned that name?
Dwarf Sansevieria
Put them in full sun at the moment but will use them indoors later. A few years ago, one of my cousins gave me a whole pot of this plant and they are now everywhere in the garden. I love their sturdy leaves, they easy to grow too and need little watering. thew are low maintenance, so to speak.
Some years back, I found this lovely book about gardening. How to maintain a garden, practical techniques for successful growing and so many lovely photos on each page. I just love it. Sometimes, growing perennials is easier than growing annuals.
Garden Guides
Good thing I kept this baller which I wore during the 2016 election. Mar Roxas on the go. Will be campaigning for him online. He is number…
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My Roselle
I was watering the plants early this morning when I saw these. New buds of my Roselle plants which I planted a few months ago. I have them in three pots and they all have those tiny buds.
They will look like this once they are in full bloom. Locally, they are also known as Hibiscus.
Culled this photo from the net. Just showing how Roselle looks like when it fully blooms.
My lone Okra shrub is busy, busy bearing those tender and young okra that I harvest every day.
Gardens are sometimes the best places to be and their fruits and flowers are stress relievers.
More Plants And Blooms
How my garden looks now. My pigeon pea plants (kadyos) are growing nicely at the back garden. I planted a lone avocado seed in a pot two months ago, it is now more than a foot tall. Since I don’t have anymore space to plant another avocado tree, maybe I’ll just send it to the province.
The sun is peeking in amidst the lush blue ternatea vines.
My mulberry tree is as tall as I am now. Jom, our neighbor gave it as a twig a few months ago.
And the bleeding hearts are blooming again. I have to trim some branches because they are climbing my jackfruit tree.
More flowers…my blue ternatea. Gonna make tea drinks out of these later.
My lone okra which was left from the previous planting.
Taro leaves…anyone? They are so tall and robust.
Gardening is such a joy when you see those blooms. They make you smile.
Every Flower Is A Soul Blossoming In Nature
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