Plant Senses and the Tiny Ecosystem

Plant Senses and the Tiny Ecosystem

Plant can sense you and please you, at least expected times.

Flowers are there to greet you and the rest of the ecosystem.

Dragon flower bloomed but no fruits.

Unexpected flower was an ornamental plant, similar to the ginger plant but much bigger.

It has narrow white blossom.

Never seen before.

Ginger plants are blossoming, too.

Palm tree blossomed with three generations of fruits, that fed the birds once the mulberry tree stopped flowering.

The ecosystem has a domesticated chameleon in the rooftop garden.

Fruit bat came in to rest during the rain.

Read about the bats and put the indoor light overnight to discourage the visit and daily dropping on the steps to my bedroom.

Now he/she comes and rest in the outdoor veranda.

King fisher comes and have a survey but no crabs.

The open well was filled up (vacant land) and dirty Hi-ace vehicle is parked there permanently, now.

Bread fruit tree is no more.

Jack trees were decimated.

Banana trees blossomed but only tiny fruits.

I hate banana trees.

They ruin the soil.

But hummingbirds come for the honey and they are not worried that I am watching their painful feeding in flight.

Only six of them.

I never try to take a photo (except flowers).

The lens in the camera scare them.

Then there were three exotic birds yesterday.

Never seen before.

Who says a tiny garden with ample water and guppy fish as a delicacy (magpie) discourages lot of visitors including Ceylon civet in the night. He eats the fruit of the sweet Nelli (work of our mother) in addition (comes with young ones).

I have two Kithul plants in pots as a reminder of the Ceylon civet.

I have germinated two plants with difficulty from the dropping.

There is a single Kithul tree in front and that is the hiding place for the squirrels when the eagle comes round for its prey.

Bul Buls and Mynahs and a single crow completes the day.

By the way, I have managed to raise seven types of lilies.

There is flower every day of the rainy season when other terrestrial plants stop flowering and start growing vigorously.