mulberry

The Haze situation have become bad over the weekend. The API index stands at 190. Very unhealthy level. I heard it was due to Gunung Lokan jungle on fire in Indonesia on top of existing plantation burn down activities! Altogether we are breathing very bad air at the moment! Schools are closed today. It rains yesterday but not enough to bring down the thick haze.....

Plants don't mind haze! Mulberry plant have produce a lot of fruits after trimming section!

This is my harvest last Saturday. Bowl full of berries and few lemons. Most of them ripen . We stay indoor most of the time to avoid haze so I have overlooked the fruits. We can't finish it fast, so I decided to do Mulberry juice.

Combination of lemon and mulberry! Yummy taste of juice!

A bottle of thick mulberry cordial. Just mix with water and you have nice juice to drink without flavoring, colouring and preservative. The bottle was half full by evening when I took this photo!

Petola Harvest

Petola plants have been producing a lot of flowers! Most of them are male flowers. There are more male flowers compare to female flowers. There must be a reason for nature to produce many male than female flowers.....I wonder why...

Petola in the making! It look so promising! The garden is producing good harvest after so long! 

Petola has sweet taste. The flesh is white and soft. They taste good by just saute with garlic and onion! 

GBBD - September 2015

It's hot and added with haze from burning plantation in Indonesia. What a great combination! I can hardly breath properly! We choose to stay indoor! Every year we face this haze situation without fail! sigh......

Flowering plants don't mind on the haze I guess.... They keep producing flowers!

The ants being busy collecting sweets from flowers!

The sea of purple and orange flowers!

I have 2 varieties of Adeniums. One is pink and another is red. Both flowering at the moment!

I must have done something to this daisy! They seems to be flowering non stop! I never seen them this productive all this while! Does the carbon content or some chemical from haze feed them?

 I would like to share petola flowers too!

What's flowering in your garden now? I'm adding this post to GBBD hosted by May Dream Flowers at may dream flower

Angle Luffa

Petola or Angle luffa is back in my garden. At the moment they have started to sent out a lot of blooms. They are pretty in yellow! The flowers will bloom in the late evening. Night pollinator are required. In my garden , ants do the job!

Most of the flowers are male. Hope the female will bloom soon!

female flower 

male flower and female bud 

ants as pollinators

female blooms

This vegetable has a sweet taste and have a soft and white texture. Looking forward for petola harvest!

bird watch

There are many birds visiting and have visited my garden. Mostly local birds. Some pick my seeds so I have to cover the newly sow seeds with mesh.

This bird is new to my garden. Do you know the species? It was quietly sitting on the swing rod and watching around. It look like king fisher to me but there is no fish pond around here......Have to bird lost route to it's house?