Bananas from the garden to the kitchen

Finally the bananas were harvested last Sunday! They were all still green when we chop the whole bunch but now they have slowly ripening. Turning yellow. I can smell bananas is the kitchen.

 

The trunk was chopped and the inner soft stem was cooked too! They are really juicy and at the best state! 

As usual bananas are shared between friends and neighbours!

Currently I have 5 more green bananas bunches! It will ripe very soon. I'm thinking of banana cake and some traditional dessert like "cekodok" and "lepat pisang"! What else to be made? May be some banana shake!

It's really very useful to have banana tree at home!

GBBD - JUNE 2017

I have been trimming almost all my plants! It's very hot now and many pest making a comeback into the garden. I chase them away by giving all of them a good hair cut. I'm left with few blooms now but the garden look more tidy! ;)

A single Mussaenda on the lower branches

 Costus escaped from the trimming section. They are growing wild at the moment. Some are at my height!

Costus escape the trimming section

 The dried Costus flower can be ornamental decoration ! They look beautiful!

The nuts are edible but I never tried before!

Plumeria is flowering again!

Adenium flowers are making a comeback!

HAPPY FATHER's DAY in Advance! Adenium is my father's favorite flower!

The tender seed pod on the plant.

This is my post for GBBD - June 2017. For more flowers blooming around the worlds, feel free to visit Maydreams blog at http://www.maydreamsgardens.com/

Jack fruits

Two jackfruits are getting bigger!

I wrap them with papers to avoid pest! Hope this will protect the fruits and they will ripe nicely in 1-2 months

Surprise stay....

I have a Fern plant at the corner of my car porch. I trim it sometimes. No other special attention given to this plant. Last weekend there were a lot of bird chirping sound at the corner. I have a lot of visitor birds in my garden. Therefore I was not paying any attention until this Tuesday. I wonder what's happening over there! Everything look so usual.

Everything look so usual

Due to my suspicions feeling, i had a closer look into the Fern, and.... below is what I found! There were 3 little baby birds and a mother bird! How long it should have taken from building the nest, laying eggs, incubation of the eggs, hatching of eggs and so on! I miss all the process!

Gardening need attention. Unfortunately I juggle between work, family and the garden! I must have been so in ignorance all this while. Sometimes beautiful things happen while we are so busy with our life that we miss the chance to see it!

We are so busy running around, we miss the simplest most beautiful things. The cycle of life passes us by, unnoticed, unappreciated. Roz Swartz Williams, The Mourning Chronicles

Papaya fruits agains

It's been quiet sometimes since the last harvest of papayas. The trees produce another batch of papayas and now they are a bit bigger.

Another tree with flowers!

This time I wrap all the big size fruits on the trees. This is in order to avoid any pest larvas. I'm not sure how but in the past I saw a lot of worms in the ripe fruits! I think I throw about 3 large size fruits!

Usually I pluck the unripe fruits when they show the first sign of ripening and ripen indoor. Nicely wrap in paper.  I wonder how the pest inject their larva into unripe hard fruits! So this time I'm taking extra precaution.

Betel leaves

Betel leaves are growing with minimum care in my little garden. The leaves are in heart shape. they are as big as my palm size.

No pest munch on them. I let them grow and flow everywhere. I forgot to snap the photo at the back side of the gate. They are overflowing!

On the inside of garden I did some trimming. Now they look more neat!

 I have wrote about the plant benefits long time ago. It's treated as herbs by Indian community!

GBBD - May 2017

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

It was raining everyday until last Friday. Suddenly everything change. I can't see a single drop of rain for past 4 days! It's very hot weather! I can't really predict the weather now. Watering need to be done everyday now.

Nevertheless the plants don't mind the weather. They keep producing beautiful flowers all day long!

Look at below self seeded Torenia. I remember planting the blue and pink colour Torenia back in 2014. After sometimes they were missing. How ignorance i must have been! Suddenly I saw them growing everywhere and there is maroon colour too! What a sweet surprise!

I give the hibiscus heavy hair cut! Now they have bounce back and produce so many beautiful orange and red flowers!

Cape honeysuckle is still recovering from the trimming section. They have produce some radient flowers too! 

I'm not very sure of this plant name. They produce beautiful yellow flowers! very invasive too! I can find them everywhere in the garden. But they are welcomed here!

My Adenium have started to produce continues flowers since last October! What a lovely plant!

My favorite from front garden patio! Full of Costus

 Not to forget the long lasting Mussaenda flowers! Their bloom can last up to 3 weeks!

 Little Duranta flowers look so obvious in between the green!

This is my post for GBBD May 2017. For more flowers blooming around the world, feel free to visit Maydreamflower at http://www.maydreamsgardens.com/