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Ladies Finger a.k.a. Okra

CharTherCT — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:08:09 +0000

For my GTS entry, my dad grew this vegetable locally called Okra or Ladies Fingers in English. Honestly I never knew that is its English translation. Anyway, this was planted in my dad’s old small fish pond located in the front yard which he intentionally dried up because it somehow became a breeding place for mosquitoes. Last Wednesday morning we saw this flower opened up and then in the afternoon it looked like it withered but not really then after a few days it became an okra.

Green Thumb Sunday: Gumamela

CharTherCT — Sun, 18 May 2008 15:55:47 +0000

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My mom had this gumamela for many years now and I wanna ask her to plant some for me in a pot so that I can bring it with me whenever we have decided to live in our own house. I used to remember when we were younger that I would pick these flowers and make them as one of the ingredients in making a mixture that would create bubbles. These gumamela continue to grow in the front yard. Seeing them bloom adds more color to the front yard. Happy Sunday everyone! Have a great week ahead!

Yellow Flowers

CharTherCT — Sun, 04 May 2008 02:25:38 +0000

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This is my first time to join and this seems to be fun joining the Green Thumb Sunday. I love nature and here is one way of sharing our photos of nature of the plants we have around the house. Here are two of the yellow flowers growing in the front yard of our house. My mom loves to plant flowers before and she used to grow orchids but over the years she has become busy with the church activities and has not much time to garden as often as she would want to. But these plants are still alive. The second photo if I am not mistaken is called Yellow Bell Flower. I bought this plant in Mati, Davao Oriental and that is far away from our place – a four hour bus ride from Davao City. I have aways been fascinated by this flower so when I saw it at an agro fair in a fiesta in Mati when we had an official business there, I bought this one. Some of our neighbors would use this flower to decorate their fences mostly on top and let it crawl over the top of the fence and it really looks nice to me. One neighbor even made an arch and have this plant crawl over it that it really looks naturally beautiful.

Happy Sunday and enjoy the rest of your weekend! God bless!!!