Project #365 Day 42 Jasmine
Tags: jasmine, flower, flower buds, Sri Lanka
Plants
Rice Paddy Field
Here is a rice paddy field, which is a fairly common sight. Despite rice growing here, rice is still imported…
Project #365 Day 41 Red Explosion!
Remember the red flower bud photo I posted yesterday? It bloomed. Those are big fat black ants crawling around in…
A banana plant falleth down
A few days ago, a fierce wind started up suddenly. The wind was strong enough to make the mango tree…
Project #365 Day 21 Fuzzy Wuzzy Caterpillar
This one is my choice of picture of the day. At least, so far today. I love the nasty caterpillar…
Project #365 Day 20 Brown Butterfly and Big Ants on Red Flower
This brown butterfly is an occasional visitor. He flits, he flies, he takes a brief rest break. I have no…
Project #365 Day 18 Flowering Decorative Palm
Many types of palm trees grow here. This is the flower for a decorative palm at the beginning of its…
Project #365 Day 17 Wild Yam Flower
Any empty spot of land quickly turns into lush greenery of some sort, especially during the rainy season, when a…
Project #365 Day 11 Flora
I’m kind of torn between which pictures to show, so I think I’m tossing a couple in. 🙂 And then…
Project #365 Day 7 And the Alien!
I was going to use this as my picture of the day. Because, let’s face it, the idea of plants…
Project #365 Day 6 Thebu and Papaya Mealybug
A little over a year ago, our househelper brought some thebu one day. She made the leaves into a sambol…
Project #365 Day 5 Croton
One of the plants in our garden. Edited to add: This plant has been positively identified as a croton (Codiaeum…
The parting of the papaya mealybug and the lime tree
I’ve mentioned the papaya mealybug infection in several previous posts. Unfortunately, the papaya mealy bug (Paracoccus marginatus) continues to be…
Project #365 Day 4 – Fungus!
Fungus growing on my lime tree. Tags: lime tree, fungus
Project 365 Day 2 – Flowers!
There’s a tree just outside our front yard. It grows prolifically, so even though it was cut back around 6…
Help Needed Identifying Plant Pests & Problems
We don’t have a very large plot of land, so don’t have a very large garden, but we do maximize…
Yes, we have no bananas . . .
Remember the Banana Tree? It collapsed. The image on the left was taken on 28 April. Image on the right…
And you know how Canadians sometimes – and only sometimes – have fruit trees in their back yards?
And it’s usually apples, but occasionally, especially if it’s the Okanagan valley, it’ll be peaches or pears or apricots? Here,…