Project #365 Day 85 Red Yellow Green
Garden Crotons or Variegated Crotons (Codiaeum variegatum) are native to Sri Lanka, among other countries. This comes as no surprise…
Plants
Project #365 Day 83 Poison for the soul
Manioc, also knows as Cassava. My mother-in-law grows it in her garden and has fed it to me at least…
Project #365 Day 81 Spiralling
This is the stem of a thebu plant (Costus speciosus). The thebu plant has a spiralling leaf structure. There’s probably…
Project #365 Day 80 Palm Leaf
I’m working on fostering my creative side, theoretically. Or, I hope. Or something. I’ve never really thought of myself as…
Project #365 Day 79 The Bee and the Jambu Flower Blossom
The bees and other pollinating insects have been buzzing around the jambu tree for the last couple of days, ever…
Project #365 Day 77 Jambu Flower Blossoms
The jambu fruit are growing – it’s that time of year. 🙂 The jambu erupt into blossoms, which then fall…
Project #365 Day 71 The Dying of the Lime Tree
My poor lime tree. Okay, it’s really my mother in law’s lime tree – she planted it and cared for…
Project #365 Day 65 Mites and Ants
Mites are absolutely everywhere here, as are ants of all sorts of sizes and descriptions. Battle ’em best we can,…
Project #365 Day 60 Jambu!
Which I’ve also seen spelled as jumbu and jumboo and a bunch of other ways. But Fahim insists it’s Jambu.
Project #365 Day 53 Common Tailorbird
I’ve mentioned before that, in empty lots here, stuff grows. Yeah, cuz "stuff" is such a highly technical descriptor, right?…
Project 365 Day 51 – Out and About
This might just end up being a regular thing with me. 🙂 I’ve mentioned before that all sorts of things…
Project #365 Day 48 Purple Purple Plurple
Tags: purple, flowers, purple flowers, Sri Lanka
Project #365 Day 43 The Resurrection of the Orchid Tree
The orchid tree that sits in front of our house – on the street side of our wall, so not…
Water Lilies
Water lilies beside a major road in Battaramulla. Water lilies grow in a few waterways here. A few times, I’ve…