Thread: What's in your garden?

Originally Posted by Looper

Señorita Surabaya gave me 4 of these weird nut things last year without telling me what they were

Can anybody identify them?

I managed to get 2 of them to germinate and this is what they have come up like

Did she flout Aussie importation laws

In my garden this week is water by the torrent load

Giving my hastily repaired storm water system a try out

Originally Posted by malmomike77

Did she flout Aussie importation laws

Good question Mike now that I think about it.

I could be infringing some vegetation by-law or customs criminal code with these bad boys.

Yard going crazy with flower blooming. Orchids, shrubs, plants and lotus flowers

It's been a good year for the roses.






All the birds seem to be courting too.

Don't know what this is called but itch pretty.

Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai

Don't know what this is called but itch pretty.

That looks like Bird of Paradise flower. Should be some more blueish/purple bits to come.

Originally Posted by Stumpy

Yard going crazy with flower blooming. Orchids, shrubs, plants and lotus flowers

Originally Posted by cyrille

It's been a good year for the roses.

Stumpy
You have some really nice orchids there.

As cyrille says its been a good year for the roses and I believe he lives up your way somewhere.

So I was just wondering about what happened to your wife's roses?
I remember you posting pictures before and she had a beautiful rose garden.

Originally Posted by ootai

So I was just wondering about what happened to your wife's roses?
I remember you posting pictures before and she had a beautiful rose garden.

Well it all died. We went back to the states for 2 months and we returned and they pretty much died. Wife moved on to Orchids.

Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai

Don't know what this is called but itch pretty.

This is another flower growing in our property that I dont know what is called but seems to be of the same family as the one above , but rather than growing upwards is hanging down.

Might be heliconia.

Originally Posted by cyrille

heliconia

Once I had the name , I Google it and you are right.

And given the Greek origin of it's name I hope I have garnered additional points toward solidifying my Greek credentials

Originally Posted by cyrille

Might be heliconia.

Thanks, Cyrille. I have seen this a few times and never got around to finding the name. I have never seen it at the plant shops either. It is a very distinctive flower. Probably my friend Lazada will have some.

The bronzeback is back. I don't recall ever hearing a frog scream before. There was quite a chase around the garden before the snake got its lunch.



A few minutes later and the frog is nothing but a bulge halway down the snake.

This looks to be an Oriental garden lizard. Minding its own business.



Until the dogs arrived.



The dogs are not very big and they are not very brave. The lizard stood its ground and gave some warning noises. Like a throaty bark, is there a special name for the noise?
It was enough to deter the dogs, who wandered off pretending that they hadn't been interested in the first place.

I have no idea except it is an insect

Originally Posted by VocalNeal

I have no idea except it is an insect

It is a planthopper, a Pyrops. Curious looking animals, I found one here once.

Pyrops - Wikipedia

^ actually they are Canthisgaster Cicadas. At least that is the research info I found 6 or 7 years ago. We have many around the property and when they get screaming at certain times of years they are loud.

Originally Posted by Stumpy

^ actually they are Canthisgaster Cicadas. At least that is the research info I found 6 or 7 years ago. We have many around the property and when they get screaming at certain times of years they are loud.

Maybe a rose by any other name? I don't know, except that planthoppers and cicadas are in the same Order, Hemiptera.

Pyrops candelaria species page - THAILAND NATURE PROJECT

Cool. Thanks for the info Shutree. Before I took out the very old Lumyai trees to start the pool project we had literally hundreds hanging around both of them. Then sometime around July August they would start screaming. My wife would spray them with water.

They are interesting insects in that even if you try and touch or grab them they prefer not to fly but move from you.

I have a few on my old Mango tree

Here is what is in my front garden. I don't know names in English as I only know in Thai and Farsi and Isan. These plants are common here in Thai Soi Tuek Thaew (ตึกแถว) homes. I don't know the names in English as I only know them in Thai, Farsi and Isan. I plant these myself. Wasps did come to one of my trees here but that tree died a long time ago. Insects are pretty rare as I live in this Soi with rarely any insects (an neighbor did had a wasp nest and the wasps invaded my trees).

Bro thats a ตัวเหี้ย (yes bad word). Thai people believe it gives luck and make you rich.

Originally Posted by Arman Ahmedi

Bro

^ Hmmm.... Interesting. Post before that blurry...something like a Chico might do.

Originally Posted by Stumpy

Cool. Thanks for the info Shutree. Before I took out the very old Lumyai trees to start the pool project we had literally hundreds hanging around both of them. Then sometime around July August they would start screaming. My wife would spray them with water.

They are interesting insects in that even if you try and touch or grab them they prefer not to fly but move from you.

I have a few on my old Mango tree

It's interesting (to me, at least), if you search for this as a cicada you can find images that are certainly the same insect. There are also other images that look much more like a standard cicada and are quite clearly a different animal. For example:

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