Living in the tropics makes for a completely different garden life experience, with different fruits and animals in it compared to (European) Western countries, where I originate from. I noticed that it was more than a year ago since I posted about our garden, which surrounds our house, so this is as good as any time to follow up with a few pix.
The post from a year also had a picture from bananas, not a very common sight in your average European garden. Here's some very young bananas, hatching(?) on their tree. Haha, sorry, but I don't know how this is called in English. Hatching sounds good!
Interestingly enough, banana trees only bear fruit once and than you can cut the tree-trunk. Around the tree trunk there will already be plenty of new, smaller tree trunks that grow rapidly and at some stage have their own bananas.
This is a tree trunk next to the one pictured above. These bananas are out a bit longer already.
About a month ago this butterfly visited our garden and it had some beautiful colours.
A few weeks before the butterfly came to see us, this dragonfly had a rest in our garden.
Unfortunately I'm not as good as Monique in her photoblog with the names of the species, but I found them interesting, beautiful and colourful enough to take their picture and post them here.
Hope you enjoy these pictures and entry as much as my usual banter.
Camille
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