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TINA'S WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

GBBD: return of the roses

my roses survived the black spot!

i'm so happy that i took as much shots as i could.

 

my pink mini rose

orange mini rose

pink and yellow mini roses

my thornless heavy-scented pink rose

my favorite rose :)

my peach rose from tagaytay

another flower of my peachy pink rose

my freckled pink rose

here are my new plants

NOID

single petal pink impatiens

mini version of dona aurora (mussaenda philippica)

with lemon yellow leaves

pink dianthus

lemon yellow dahlia

purple hydrangea, a replacement for my pink one that died :(

orangey pink rose

thanks to MAY DREAMS GARDENS for hosting.
happy GBBD everyone!

going bananas

i was surprised this morning when the husband brought these bananas from our backyard.

the last time i checked, they were still very thin and green.

but today, the husband harvested these plump, unripe but mature bananas.

this banana variety is called "saba."
a variety which originated from the philippines.
it is a much more shorter version of the usual banana, much more plump, and the peels are much much thicker.

this banana mainly used for cooking such as turon (banana wrapped in lumpia wrapper),
banana cue (sugar-coated fried bananas in a stick),
nilupak (mashed bananas), saging con yelo (sweet plantain with crushed ice),
or ginataang saging (bananas cooked in coconut milk).though usually used for cooking,
this banana gives more potassium when eaten raw.
it has a much more starchy, a bit sour, and a bit sweet taste than the other types of bananas.

the husband harvested more than 10 clusters of these bananas
with one cluster having an average of 20 bananas!
that is too many for us to consume!

we only kept 3 of them for our favorite turon with langka (jackfruit)
and the rest were sold to our neighbors for 1php each.
these bananas will ripen in about 2 to 3 days, much quicker if kept in a sack.

these bananas will be our merienda for the next few days together with our calamansi juice.

free merienda fresh from our trees and we've got some money from selling them too.

yay!

happy thursday everyone!

chasing a dragon

last night, as i was inspecting my roses for new buds,

i accidentally bumped into this guy,

sleeping in one of my rose plants.

awakened, it quickly flew away.

but, i easily caught it maybe because it was too dizzy to move.

one of my childhood memories is that of chasing dragonflies,
aside from butterflies and grasshoppers.
me and my playmates would go the field, looking for them.
i find the dragons and damsels the hardest to chase.
you should be in "stealth" mode if you want to catch one.

even the slightest movement, they are able to sense,
maybe because we were kids who were very active and haven't got the control that
what we think was our stealthiest quietest movement was not what we think was,
maybe it was those big eyes that were able to see us from behind
or maybe those almost invisible wings and thin frame that makes it faster to glide from one position to another, making it very hard to see in the fields.

 

catching a dragon those days was a big deal.

it gave you the bragging rights.  yes, grashoppers are cool, butterflies are colorful, but the dragonflies were just different..

you could be very popular if you catch a large one.

which made me think, if this was a dragonfly i caught when i was a kid,

i'd be the topic of my playmates conversations, hearing stories

on how i caught THE dragon again and again and again.

but then, i'm a kid no more, only a kid at heart, still chasing dragons whenever i see one,

bringing back childhood memories, playing with them no more,

just taking some pictures and freeing THE dragon.

til we meet again my old friend :)

wordless wednesday: repainting

fertilizer friday & weekend flowers on friday: crazy weather

we've been having the craziest weather these past few days.

warm and sunny in the morning then heavy rains in the evening.

i hate it!

first:  my sunflower seedlings are all gone, eaten by those tiny snails.

second:  mosquitoes! lots of them!

third:  having to go outside late in the evening soaking wet

just to save my lavender and rosemary plants and

to look for my missing kitty only to find out she was locked up in mom's bedroom (lol!)

good thing, my blooms are not giving up on me, always cheering me up.

here are my pinks

pink rose

my favorite!

darker pink rose

mini pink rose

tiny raindrops on my rose's petals

another mini pink rose

first bloom of my four o'clocks

pink petunia

my newly acquired mum

and the yellows, the sunshines in my garden

another new addition to my garden, yellow mums

japanese iris from mom's garden

yellow mini rose

tiny sunflower

hope tomorrow's weather will be better.

i need to get cuttings for my forum friends :) 

  

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