These live in my garden:
- Rat. It fell into a bucket when it wanted to drink water. It has been taken out and left outside the boundary wall.
2. Mynah. Its nest is somewhere in a tall tree and it sits on the wall while searching for insects crawling underfoot. It chirps, sings, screeches and expresses itself in a wide range of vocal repertoire.
3. I bought this orchid at a nursery when it was bearing purple flowers. Orchids generally bloom once annually. However, mine didn’t for the next two years. I give it water, and vegetable infused water made after washing greens in the water. This water contains some minerals effused into the water, just like how tea is made. Its leaves are sometimes stained with white markings because of these waters which dry out and leave behind deposits.
4. Every mother-in-law has a long tongue. Mimi gave me the other names for this plant – snake or Dracaena trifasciata. Thanks, Mimi. Her website is very interesting at messymimismeanderings.blogspot.com . This plant has been given a nickname, mother-in-law’s tongue, because the length of its leaves is very long. Each leaf looks sharp and pointed.
5. This is the curry leaf plant. We can cut stalks of leaves to boil in curry soup to taste and smell the curry fragrance.
6. A tiny bird, around the size of a large butterfly, must have built a nest with a curled up leaf. Its a large pumpkin leaf. I guess it could be a hummingbird as I’ve seen one fluttering around the “Bird of Paradise”, which is a variety of the ginger plant.
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Mynah birds are so fun and very unique!
I have never liked either the name mother-in-law tongue or snake plant for the Dracaena trifasciata, it’s too pretty for either name and as a mother-in-law who only says anything when asked, well, maybe it should just be called “dracata,” a shortening of its scientific name. Yes, I know that won’t happen, but I wish it could.