GBBD - Oct 2016

We are on the 10th month of the year!

The rain have started to shower a little beginning of this week! It's getting cooler now. Hope it will continue to give little shower every other day!

Rain have reduce my work in garden. I don't need to water the plant....how lazy I'm at time! hahaha....

Mussaenda flowers are brightening up my from patio with their off -yellow color flowers! The flowers are ever-lasting

Duranta little flower!

The ever shooting up Costus red flower stalk! They are the real survivor with little watering! 

Marigold towards the end of flowering season. Many dry flower seeds are there for me to start new planting!

Hibiscus in red and Orange. The red flowers are starting the day while the orange color have open up their petal by 7am!

Cape honeysuckle bloom inviting a lot of bees at the moment!

The Ixora flowers are real surprise for me! They are blooming continuously for the past 3 months after being dormant for few years!

I must have forgotten my only plumeria tree! Today when i look up, I saw some red flower stalk!

I think they have bloom for some time ready!

Those are flowers blooming in my little garden. How about your garden?

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Finally the Bananas!

Above is my first banana harvest! There were 2 bunches on single tree! It's really ridiculous right!

I decided to use a ladder to chop down the bunches. The tree is still standing high. I shall chop the tree in few weeks. The tender trunk shall be taken and cooked as Indian style.

The main bunch has bigger fruit.

The sub bunch has a lot of fruits in small size!

I tasted one yesterday out of curiosity . It's not fully ripe yet but has sweet taste!

There are a lot of bananas! We share them with neighbours and family!

I have to think of recipes to use all the bananas once they ripe..... Banana cake, Malaysian dessert cengkodok, puding, what else?

Papaya Harvest

Harvest time is the best moment of gardening! It make us feel so proud of our effort! We feel our hard work paid off! That's beauty of gardening.  

Past 2 weeks I have been plucking papayas. 4 papayas are harvested last week and another 4 yesterday.

Unfortunately one tasted by the monkey! I was a bit late to pluck them. So the monkey had tasted first! It's ok....The papayas are in abundance so I don't mind a few bite from them on single fruit! That fruit will go to the dustbin. Another 3 shall be wrapped and ripen in the kitchen. In my garden, kitchen bench is the safest place to ripen fruits! hahahaha....

Few more left on the tree. I shall pluck once it shows the slightest sign of ripening!

The tree is getting very tall. Is this normal for a papaya plant?

GBBD - September 2016

This shall be the 9th post for GBBD hosted by Maydream

We are reaching the final quarter of the year 2016. How fast time flies! It shall be beginning of Monsoon rainy season soon but this year there might be a change. We are seeing a lot of weather change this year!

This suppose to be dry month, however we are seeing rain now and then. Even one or two thunderstorm too!

Anyway we shall enjoy all the season like the plants! Let's look at what's blooming in my garden!

The Gerbera in full bloom! Both pictures were taken in 1 week apart.

I had trimmed my powderpuff plant 4 months ago so much that it's not bouncing back again! However it produce few beautiful flowers!

As usual, the purple Duranta sending out a lot of flowers!

I just love my Costus! With minimum care they sent out so many
flowers!

Yellow everlasting flower of  Mussaenda ! The bloom last for few weeks!

Red Hibiscus !

Cape honeysuckles bud and flowers! They were given a heavy trimming too!

Potted Bougainvillea ! I think it's time for me to shift them to the ground!

I'm not sure of this plant name but it invite a lot of honeybees to the garden!

I forgot to take photo of my Marigold and Ixora! Trust me they are blooming cheerly too!

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Banana fruit

I feel it takes ages for Banana to mature. I'm waiting patiently for the fruits to mature.

The banana plant is tall. At a mean time, I'm thinking on how to bring down the fruit! May be ladder is good choice! I'm so ambitious I guess! hahaha...

If you have banana plant, how long it takes to ripe? How you bring down the matured fruit?

bitter gourd

 2 bitter gourds growing beside the Pandan leaves. I have trim down the pandan plant. Reduce the territories perimeter. Hope it does not mind.

Bitter gourd transplanted to the ground on weekend.

Hope they grow well and produce enough harvest for me!

Pak Choy- another hard try

This is my another attempt to grow Pak Choy. Snails have been my biggest enemy! They munch the plants over the night! By morning there will be no sign of this vegetable!

Luckily this time some have been saved! I turn evil. I pour around the snail poison and I see many snails died. There is no sorry for them! It's a war for almost 2 years! A tough war using environment friendly method but it fail miserably!

Below is my first water plant with guppies to control mosquitoes breeding! First flower! It's a start of beautiful day!