GBBD - April 2017 & Wishes

Today is Tamil New Year. It's celebrated by all Hindu people around the world. Many sweets are made and distributed among family members! 

Many flowers are blooming in my garden now. So this is also my post for GBBD April 2017

 Costus are growing tall. They are almost reaching my waist!

Wrightia look so cheerful in white under the hot sun!

 The flowers of Mussaenda are in full bloom! They are so beautiful in light yellow colour!

Blue butterfly peas flower look so striking among the green leaves!

The ever flowering yellow Marigold flowers!

Hibiscus are a must in my garden! Very little care is need to take care them! I love this plant so much! 

Plumeria flowers are towards the end. They really have lasting flowers for almost 3 weeks!

This is my post for GBBD April 2017. For more blooms around the world visit feel free to visit http://www.maydreamsgardens.com/

Happy Tamil New Year to all who are celebrating today!

Indian broad beans

Indian broad beans vines have started to produce a lot of beans! I use to call them indian version of peas! I can't plant peas here in tropical country so this peas become alternative! 

They have beautiful purple flowers and they do have a ornamental look! I have seen few busy bees buzzing around this vines! I think the nectar of the flower must be sweet and delicious for the bees!

Bananas and more bananas!

Finally we harvested a big bunch of bananas! There were so many bananas! I shared them with family, relatives, friends and neighbours!

These are balance bananas after sharing with the neighbours!

It's layered in 3 layers!

The banana stocks are ripening naturally! I can smell bananas once enter the kitchen area!

Fully riped bananas! 

The inner part of bananas! Taste so sweet with mild sour taste! What a good combination taste!  

 The trunk was chopped down on weekend and the tender part are cooked! I share the stem with family!

what a useful plant is banana!


Now I have dozens of bananas in fridge. Waiting to be cooked or baked or even eaten raw!

bananas - still in green!

The banana tree is very high. I wonder why it became like coconut tree! The bunch is hanging down. It's very heavy and I wonder how the tree is coping with the weight! 

This is the bottom view! The fruits looked like fully filled but the ripening process haven't completed! No indication of yellow.

If all goes well I will have many fruits to be harvested and given to family and friends!

Banana getting fatter

It's a long wait for banana to ripen. I'm waiting without patient actually!

I have been thinking what kind of dessert I can make with the bananas! It's a long list actually!

Gardening do really teach us a lot of lessons in life! The plants teach us to slow down, value of patient, disappointment at time and happy moment at other time!

what you do with your abundance bananas?

Kangkung

Water spinach or Kangkung in Malay language is very famous vegetable in Malaysia.

Once I had abundance of Kangkung in my little garden. Family members can predict the vegetable dish for weekend cooking! Sometimes i cut them down as it became invassive. Now the bed can hardly produce any Kangkung plant. Not sure why. My attempt do not succeed anymore like those days.

Nevertheless I keep trying. This is my kangkung bed. Grown on new bed. It's not so productive at this stage but I hope it will in near future!

Do anyone have tips in growing successful Kangkung?

Jackfruit

 I thought i have one jackfruit and one "cempedak" tree. At least that's what I requested for in nursery 5 years ago. However, the nursery man had made mistake. He has given me 2 jackfruit trees!

One have grow big and i have plucked 2 fruits which are edible. Now there are 3 fruits hanging but i'm not sure if it will ripe. 2 fruits aborted half way.

This mistaken identity jackfruit tree grow very slowly. it's not so huge tree compare to the other one. Previously it produce many fruits but it dropped down half way. The plant aborted the fruits as part of survival i guess!

However the tree was so determined this time around! The fruit keep growing !

Finally I harvested a big fruit which weight 12kg! Such a huge fruit and the fleshes are so sweet! 

This is the half aborted fruit from the first tree. The fleshes are not ripe. I have to throw them away! This are part of gardening....so happy news and some unhappy ending.....