Tag: Plants

Tags: jasmine, flower, flower buds, Sri Lanka

Here is a rice paddy field, which is a fairly common sight. Despite rice growing here, rice…

Remember the red flower bud photo I posted yesterday? It bloomed. Those are big fat black ants…

Tags: flower, flower bud, Sri Lanka

A few days ago, a fierce wind started up suddenly. The wind was strong enough to make…

This one is my choice of picture of the day. At least, so far today. I love…

This brown butterfly is an occasional visitor. He flits, he flies, he takes a brief rest break….

Many types of palm trees grow here. This is the flower for a decorative palm at the…

Any empty spot of land quickly turns into lush greenery of some sort, especially during the rainy…

I’m kind of torn between which pictures to show, so I think I’m tossing a couple in….

I was going to use this as my picture of the day. Because, let’s face it, the…

A little over a year ago, our househelper brought some thebu one day. She made the leaves…

One of the plants in our garden. Edited to add: This plant has been positively identified as…

I’ve mentioned the papaya mealybug infection in several previous posts. Unfortunately, the papaya mealy bug (Paracoccus marginatus)…

Fungus growing on my lime tree. Tags: lime tree, fungus

There’s a tree just outside our front yard. It grows prolifically, so even though it was cut…

We don’t have a very large plot of land, so don’t have a very large garden, but…

Remember the Banana Tree? It collapsed. The image on the left was taken on 28 April. Image…

And it’s usually apples, but occasionally, especially if it’s the Okanagan valley, it’ll be peaches or pears…