Bananas & Cauliflower In My Garden

In an earlier post, I mentioned how my potted banana tree has started to bear fruit. That was about a month ago.

I wanted to plant a banana tree for the leaves for cooking purposes. As the tree grows taller, the leaves were beyond my reach and I was thinking of cutting down the tree. Before I could actually cut it down, I noticed it has started to bear fruit. What a pleasant surprise and I was overjoyed.

Here you can see the small green bananas.

It actually has 3 combs of bananas on the stalk.

There is one big comb and 2 smaller combs of bananas.

Every morning I check on the bananas. I don't know how long they will take to ripen.

Every banana tree will bear fruit only once.

Before these bananas ripen, the mother plant has already sent forth 2 small shoots coming out from the soil. I will be getting 2 new banana plants to replace this one.

A cauliflower seedling in a pot in my garden.

Cauliflower plant growing in another pot.

I am eagerly looking forward to see sign of a cauliflower.

My home grown cauliflower, harvested a few months earlier.

It is very encouraging to see the plants growing well and getting to harvest my garden's produce.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

Even in old age they will still produce fruit

and be vital and green.

(Psalm 92:14, The Living Bible-TLB)

Exploring The Grounds Of The Homestay, Kuala Lumpur

The morning after the wedding dinner, we were all awake and ready by about 8:30 am. First, we went down to explore the grounds and garden of the homestay before breakfast.

 Taking the lift and walking along the connecting bridge.

 This place has a big and beautiful swimming pool.

 It was a pity that I didn't pack my swimsuit.

 Plenty of places for residents to rest.

 Ample places for bbq party with family and friends.

 Our homestay is in one of the units up there.

 Residents can enjoy walking or strolling in the spacious garden.

 Or take along a book to read.

Residents can enjoy aqua cycling here.

I couldn't get a clear snapshot of the aqua cycles in the water.

A stream in the midst of the garden.

Man made waterfall and pond.

After this, we went to a nearby eatery to take a light breakfast.

We returned to the homestay to get ready to check out.

 Looking down at the old from above the new building.

Linking to Good Fences.

For in baptism you see how your old,

evil nature died with him and was buried with him;

and then you came up out of death with him into a new life

because you trusted the Word of the mighty God

who raised Christ from the dead.

(Colossians 2:12, The Living Bible-TLB)

Gardening & Home Cooked Dinner.

For the past whole week, I have been busy working in my garden. I have to discard some of plants that were not doing well and keep those that are healthy and easy to look after. There are also plants that needed trimming or cutting back and the cuttings to pass over to a friend.

This yellow Plumeria or yellow Frangipani is one of my favourite plants in my garden.

Although I grow it in a pot, it can grow very tall to almost touching the porch awning. 

I shortened the plant to about 1.5 feet. In fact this is the second time I have shortened the plant. The cuttings were all given to a friend who has a big compound to plant them.

 After a few weeks, new branches will start to grown.
This picture was taken the first time I shortened the plant.

So sad that this beautiful Plumeria plant has again been infected with rust disease or rust fungus. It is a kind of yellow powder that sticks to the underside of the leaves. I balded the whole plant twice but couldn't seem to get rid of the rust fungus. I finally gave the plant to a friend who wanted to adopt it.

 I finally had a chance to cut back the branches of this hibiscus plant after all the buds have flowered.

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There are still meat and vegetable stocked up in my fridge so I have to be diligent in home cooking.

 Made another round of roast pork belly. We love the crunchy skin.

I used the Green Amaranth (yeen choy) from my garden to boil soup with dried shrimp and egg.

 I steamed some briyani rice to eat with roast pork and soup.

Next is your question about eating food that has been sacrificed to idols.

On this question everyone feels that only his answer is the right one!

But although being a "know-it-all" makes us feel important,

what is really needed to build the church is love.

(1 Corinthians 8:1, The Living Bible-TLB)

1st Stop At Green View Garden, Cameron Highlands.

By the time we finished lunch and got onto Gopeng road it was about 2.50 pm. It was a cool day and we enjoyed a leisure drive up to Cameron Highland. On the way there was a slight drizzle. By the time we reached Cameron Highland it was about 4 pm.

Our first stop in Cameron Highland was at Green View Garden. There are rabbits, ducks and birds and I will keep their photos for Saturday's Critters post.

We found this bird sculpture with an extremely long neck in the garden.

 Cute wall mural.

Photo credit goes to my friend who shared these photos of the green critter with me. I missed snapping these photos.

Pretty tricycle as a flower stand.

 Ajuga. Bugle, Bugleweed, Ground Pine or Carpet Bugle flowers.

 Green Shamrock or Oxalis Dehradunensis 

Transvaal Daisy, African Daisy or Gerbera L. 

 We spent about 20 minutes at Green View Garden.

 We hit the road again to make our way to our apartment in Tanah Rata.

Some new development since our last visit.

 We passed by many flowers and vegetables farms.

 The ground was wet. Good thing the rain stopped before we arrived.

 We checked into the Royal Lily Apartment in Tanah Rata at about 4.40 pm. The apartment building on the right side (out of sight) of this photo.

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The following photo is for joining Tuesday's Treasures.

Found this old antique wash basin stand for the newly wed at the Gopeng Museum.

Linking to Tuesday's Treasure, & Image-in-ing.

So Jesus got up from the supper table, took off his robe,

wrapped a towel around his loins, poured water into a basin,

and began to wash the disciples' feet and

to wipe them with the towel he had around him.

(John 13:4-5, The Living Bible-TLB)