Orchids, gingers, ferns and bees...
The bird's nest fern on the stand is a big problem for us at the moment, because wild honey bees have built a nest in the stand.
About Me
- Glenda Larke
- Malaysia
- My life has been described by one of my editors as “impossibly exotic” – although really it is not my life, but me, that’s the exotic. I’m the uprooted plant, the exotic who doesn’t belong, always living in someone else’s backyard...
An Australian living in Malaysia. Writer, traveler, environmentalist. Author of The Isles of Glory trilogy (The Aware, Gilfeather, The Tainted); The Mirage Makers trilogy (Heart of the Mirage, The Shadow of Tyr, Song of the Shiver Barrens) and, writing as Glenda Noramly, a stand-alone book Havenstar. The latest trilogy is called The Watergivers in Australia and the Stormlord trilogy elsewhere: THE LAST STORMLORD, STORMLORD RISING, STORMLORD'S EXILE
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
In my garden
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The bird's nest fern on the stand is a big problem for us at the moment, because wild honey bees have built a nest in the stand.
The bird's nest fern on the stand is a big problem for us at the moment, because wild honey bees have built a nest in the stand.
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Are those bees dangerous ? my grand dad used to help them at winter time and said they were not if not disturbed .
Is the last picture an orchid ?
I love those pink orchids! I wonder if the bees like them, too?
The orchids are dendrobium sp, and I rather think they are so inbred as to be useless to bees! The next is the native Zinziber spectabile (ginger). Then the local bird's nest fern. The final pix, Gynie is a Costus sp - used to be classified with gingers, but now has its own family.
Beautiful plants, so very different to anything I ever see. Clever girls recognizing orchids, I didn't. Do plants like coffee and plantains grow in Malaysia Glenda?
Yes indeed, Jo. And cocoa, all tropical fruits.
So do roses - and I found it so strange to see them in Malaysia (even though we grow plants from other parts of the world in our garden ... I know, it's a double standard).
But I don't remember seeing that beautiful orchid when I was there.
It was there, it just wan't flowering. That's the thing with orchids - they are not pretty plants until they flower.
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