Papaya flower, will it turn to fruit?

The first promising papaya flower emerged yesterday. Out of 12 papaya trees, this particular tree is a bit quick in displaying its vitality. The rest are still learning. When they are learning, flowers just open up for the day and drop off  a few  days later.  Like little birds learning to fly, papaya trees are learning too..

papaya early stage

papaya early stage

Papaya little fruit emerging

Papaya tree

Papaya in a row

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Berkebun di Putrajaya

Garden, random pictures

Some plants are designed to keep growing. That's our green spinach. We had to be back in Sitiawan and Pantaai Remis during Hari Raya celebrations, and other appointments over in KL, Putrajaya and Terengganu. Daily rainfalls helped plants very much, and they survived including green spinach or bayam hijau.  Kakdah did her usual sup bayam. Sup bayam is the simplest - bayam boiled in a few cups of water, adding shrimps, onions and red chili.

green spinach (bayam)

purple flower

flower of ornamental palm

I am back online after 2 weeks off.   I need to mention about delivery of 200 stevia seedlings to blogger friend in Ipoh during Raya days and the recent mail of 50 roselle seeds to autumn belle. We only grow roselle from the old world, the type I had seen since small.  I am currently getting quite serious with stevia, having 100 seedlings at the backyard under the shade of  netting, 40 percent light penetration.

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my little vegetable garden

periwinkle, the softest of pink.

Periwinkles grow at different places in our garden, Some are grown in the ground and some in pots. This particular periwinkle is special because it's colour is the softest of pink...

periwinkle

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BUTTERFLY AND FLOWERS in the garden

Papilio demoleus malayanus ((Lime Butterfly) is the name for butterfly in the first set of pictures. There is a lime tree nearby, for the moment without flowers. The butterfly is happy with periwinkle nectar, shifting from one flower to the next.

Papilio demoleus malayanus ((Lime Butterfly)

on periwinkle flowers

Papilio demoleus malayanus ((Lime Butterfly)

Papilio demoleus malayanus ((Lime Butterfly)

Papilio demoleus malayanus ((Lime Butterfly)

Papilio demoleus malayanus ((Lime Butterfly)

Papilio demoleus malayanus ((Lime Butterfly)

Papilio demoleus malayanus ((Lime Butterfly)

Papilio demoleus malayanus ((Lime Butterfly)

Striped Albatross (Appias libythea olferna)

on ulam raja flower

Striped Albatross (Appias libythea olferna)

Striped Albatross (Appias libythea olferna)

Lesser Dart (Potanthus omaha omaha)

on zinnia single layer flower

Lesser Dart (Potanthus omaha omaha)

Lesser Dart (Potanthus omaha omaha)

There was also a yellow butterfly that day,

 but it moved so fast and kept changing directions

 that it was almost impossible to snap.

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johor

It's tough to get it growing...

Hibiscus is easiest to propagate through cuttings. Stevia is alright too, only we got to be extremely patient over a month before it gets rooted. This particular flowering plant had been testing my patience for months. We took a few cuttings from Mother in Law's garden, many months ago. Out of 10 or so, one finally survive and now flowering.

 I would call the colour as metallic light blue. Looking at the colour closely, one can imagine the colour of an antique car, with  metallic light blue paintwork.

Cape Plumbago  is learning to be fanciful
with it's first set of flowers......  The plant is still in shade,
therefore there is a real need for a good sun bathing
for real flowering bonanza.
In a few weeks time, it should be ready.

 

 The background is lettuce, getting very big now.

Cape Plumbago

 pale blue

Cape Plumbago

shifting the lens towards sun, blue becomes whiter.

Cape Plumbago

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Changing location, better colour for chryothemis pulchella

Kakdah had been placing this potted plant under her orchid house ever since the orchid house was ready early of the year. Then a few months later she decided to to embark on garden facelift, swapping plants from left to right, taking out some and put them under brighter light, and some placed under shadier place. Flowers somehow need light to show off their exotic outfit. And these flowers really bloom!

Thus the issue of nature versus nurture comes into play, applicable to development of child, career development and flowers too.

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dancing with stars in the garden

Stars had been displayed in many forms, 

always with joyous mood. 

Structures were

 built  to study stars, the heaven above.

Stars had been central to

the existence of mankind.

Stars in art

Star in art

Star in art

Star

I look around for images of star in the garden.... 

Some are quite close.

Funny because, 

we look up to see stars in the sky 

but we have to look down to see glorious stars in the garden

Like stars in the sky, 

flowers had never been associated with sadness, 

always glorious, joyous and happy.

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BLOOMING FRIDAY : eye candy

To us malaysians, bunga is flower. The plural is bunga-bunga. There aren't many bunga-bunga in our little Tanah Merah garden. Always, flower is Kakdah's delight especially her hanging orchids. For today's post, I wish to explore flowers among the vegetables here. The most exciting understandably is lady's fingers / okra / bendi / kacang meo. I find the word kacang meo interesting because it is used only among Kelantanese. I will not venture into its origin. Kakdah jokingly mentioned about miang as the root word for meo, since her hands get very itchy whenever she got to harvest okra.

lady's finger flower

okra/bendi/kacang meo

lady's finger flower

okra/bendi/kacang meo

Malabar spinach

malabar spinach young flower

malabar spinach, young fruits

malabar spinach ripe fruits

Selom

selom flower

selom flower

selom flower

selom flower

 selom flower

Oenanthe javanica in the family of  water dropwort 

 Flowers or bunga-bunga are beautiful and treasured here, whereas in some other parts of the world, the word bunga bunga has different meaning which  Silvio Berlusconi (click here for more : Italy in suspense as 'bunga bunga' trial is poised to lift lid...) had made famous in  Italy last year,
and  in a century old  incident
happening on British Navy battleship H.M.S. Dreadnought in 1910, later known as   Dreadnought Hoax. (click here for more:  Dreadnought hoax)



More bloomings over at Katarina Katarina: Roses and stuff

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