A few days ago, a fierce wind started up suddenly. The wind was strong enough to make the mango tree across the road sway and sway and sway to the point I wondered if all that bending would send the tree crashing to the ground. The mango tree is fine, but that wind bent...
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This one is my choice of picture of the day. At least, so far today. I love the nasty caterpillar face that looks like a nasty scary circus mask, something that a psychopathic killer clown would wear. Yeah, you heard me. Killer clown. This caterpillar is poisonous. Not poisonous-it’ll-kill-you poisonous, but poisonous-it’ll-puff-up-yer-arm-and-itch-like-mad poisonous. Those...
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This brown butterfly is an occasional visitor. He flits, he flies, he takes a brief rest break. I have no idea what this red flower is called. The bush used to be quite bushy, but then the papaya mealybug infested it, so I had to trim away nearly all of its foliage about a...
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Many types of palm trees grow here. This is the flower for a decorative palm at the beginning of its flowering stage. Later, the seeds will become larger and will turn from yellow to bright red and will be quite beautiful. And this is what it looked like 15 days earlier: Tags: Sri Lanka,...
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Any empty spot of land quickly turns into lush greenery of some sort, especially during the rainy season, when a stretch of bare dirt can become green in a matter of a week or two. One plant that grows wild here is called a wild yam. I’m told the root is edible, but not...
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I’m kind of torn between which pictures to show, so I think I’m tossing a couple in. And then there’s the happiness with this one: New leaves growing after the massive pruning of this little key lime tree. Happiness because it’s growing. Tags: lime tree, growth, weeds, flowers
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I was going to use this as my picture of the day. Because, let’s face it, the idea of plants growing in the teeny tiny little crooks and crannies of brick/cement walls fascinates me. Yeah, I’m easily amused. But then this guy showed up. I thought Chernobyl Beetle was colourful, but this guy puts...
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One of the plants in our garden. Edited to add: This plant has been positively identified as a croton (Codiaeum variegatum) by Sara Chapman in the comments. Thanks, Sara. The croton is native to south Asia. Tags: plants, colourful, pretty
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I’ve mentioned the papaya mealybug infection in several previous posts. Unfortunately, the papaya mealy bug (Paracoccus marginatus) continues to be a problem. Spraying neem on the infected plants is one effective option, except that it turned out I’m allergic to neem oil. Severely. And I have no desire to go through that horrid hive...
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Fungus growing on my lime tree. Tags: lime tree, fungus
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