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Natures Notes (4) 2023 - dragonfruits!
Jun. 30th, 2023 01:32 pmSeven dragonfruit this year! Three so far from the plants that fruited last year, and one from the one that gets less sun and is nearer the trees. That one is just a bud, but two flowers opened a couple of nights ago on one of the others, (one night only) and are now hanging limply in preparation to turning into fruit. The one in the office garden fruited for the first time too, and was offered to me as tribute, since I donated the plant.
Three citrons are turning yellow on the original tree, size small to medium only, not 1 kg monsters like in the first year. Never mind, I am glad to have them at all., The other tree is flourishing leafily, but shows no interest in fruiting again after its one fruit two years ago. I may have to go out and kick it a bit, for encouragement.
The roselle plants are growing nicely and starting to produce hips. I've picked one to make tea already.
An almost grown sparrow crash-landed, scuttled into the kitchen and under the fridge, requiring much exertion from Housekeeper and Part-Time Cleaner to get it out. It stayed in the open corridor outside the kitchen for a day while its (no doubt worried) parents came and fed it, and then managed to flap off. Or possibly got eaten by something overnight. Who knows? Not we. It wasn't eaten by the Beastie Boys, who were indoors because it was drizzling.
There were hornbills hanging about in my neighbour's garden, eating fruit and small birds and eyeing her cat speculatively every time the she came out onto the balcony (she's an indoor cat, despite her best attempts not to be). My neighbour is not allowing her out unaccompanied now. Sensible, since hornbills are big and the cat is very small. I haven't seen them around in my garden, though I think the Beastie Boys are a bit too big from them, even Lap-cat. They're frightfully noisy in the mornings, and because they'so big, just two of them can produce the same decibels as a flock of two dozen crows...
Three citrons are turning yellow on the original tree, size small to medium only, not 1 kg monsters like in the first year. Never mind, I am glad to have them at all., The other tree is flourishing leafily, but shows no interest in fruiting again after its one fruit two years ago. I may have to go out and kick it a bit, for encouragement.
The roselle plants are growing nicely and starting to produce hips. I've picked one to make tea already.
An almost grown sparrow crash-landed, scuttled into the kitchen and under the fridge, requiring much exertion from Housekeeper and Part-Time Cleaner to get it out. It stayed in the open corridor outside the kitchen for a day while its (no doubt worried) parents came and fed it, and then managed to flap off. Or possibly got eaten by something overnight. Who knows? Not we. It wasn't eaten by the Beastie Boys, who were indoors because it was drizzling.
There were hornbills hanging about in my neighbour's garden, eating fruit and small birds and eyeing her cat speculatively every time the she came out onto the balcony (she's an indoor cat, despite her best attempts not to be). My neighbour is not allowing her out unaccompanied now. Sensible, since hornbills are big and the cat is very small. I haven't seen them around in my garden, though I think the Beastie Boys are a bit too big from them, even Lap-cat. They're frightfully noisy in the mornings, and because they'so big, just two of them can produce the same decibels as a flock of two dozen crows...
