Thread: What's in your garden?

Originally Posted by malmomike77

Its got the length right but needs to work on the girth.

On the plus side, easy to slice for the G&Ts.

^^^^^Awesome nature doco Mendy

In my garden this week is a 3 metre long Agave flower

Sporadically blossoms from our creeper.

Some beautiful looking plants in Aus Looper!

Originally Posted by Shutree

On the plus side, easy to slice for the G&Ts.

You have point Shu and i don't need it to be really juicy. Right, now to source the G&T.

Originally Posted by malmomike77

Its got the length right but needs to work on the girth.

Story of my life

Originally Posted by VocalNeal

Story of my life

Its not the size of the lemon that counts.

This tree is flowering right now and the flowers give off a wonderfully rich, sweet aroma that pervades the entire house on a still evening. I haven't got the words, but the Thais just seem to say 'hom'. It really is like a perfume.



I've just planted another of these trees down by the chicken run to try and hide the smell. We have three now but I'd like more.

^easy Will!

Photobomb crap as well.

I like the palm type bush. Good if you need to cover some space.

We have half a dozen varying flower trees that really make the house area smell great when they bloom. One is interesting as you can't smell it very well up close but can smell it when 20 feet away. Another only seems to smell heavy at night.

My wife has tracked all of them down. Nice thing is being all different, they tend to bloom at different times. My SIL who is staying at our place has told my wife the place is Hom Mak

One of two in the yard yesterday. When they get larger (to eat a pup) they will leave us.

I guess you get used to them.

Me, never!

Originally Posted by Looper

^^^^^Awesome nature doco Mendy

It's ongoing.

While I've been sitting in my office doing some stuff for the past half hour I first watched daddy pigeon caring for his offspring...



And then, down flew mummy pigeon to take over.



I never realised that pigeon fathers were such good parents. Maybe it's the same for other birds as well?

I don't particularly want this pigeon family on my balcony but now that they're here I may as well speed things up. The quicker they grow up and fly the nest, the quicker I can get the aircon installed.



Here's the father feeding them. He opens his beak and the chicks take regurgitated food from down his throat.

I imagine the outcome is similar in the Chitty house.

^ have you seen that can of all day breakfast and frazzled eggs Mendy's knocked up?

He's right, that male pigeon is the better parent

Look at Dill come on all egg sophistry coz his Mrs cant go wrong with his new egg cooker.

Originally Posted by malmomike77

I imagine the outcome is similar in the Chitty house.

No need for that slur on my Michelin starred culinary skills

Originally Posted by Mendip

I don't particularly want this pigeon family on my balcony but now that they're here I may as well speed things up.

Don't fly the coup on your Arctic jolly and leave us on cliff-hanger Mendip...

We demand photo updates of the great fledging event from mini-Mendip!

In my garden this week is my Thanksgiving Cactus flowering in its antipodean month of May

It is distinguished from the Christmas and Easter cactus by it pointy leaf projections.

Originally Posted by Looper

Don't fly the coup on your Arctic jolly and leave us on cliff-hanger Mendip...

We demand photo updates of the great fledging event from mini-Mendip!

Here ya go Looper!

The daughter sent me this pic today, taken a week after the one above.

The chicks are doing well and are feathering up but this picture annoyed me slightly. The new grey pipe shows that the aircon project has been done since I left home but the guy obviously didn't try and shape the outlet pipe around the edge of the balcony and just cut straight across instead. In fact he could have easily diverted the piping elsewhere but that would have meant buying a few corner pieces which he obviously didn't fancy doing. A job waiting for me when I get home.

Bloody farang, installer does him the favour of using less pipe and therefore saving him some money and the whitey does nothing but bitch about it. Were instructions left telling him to blow the budget and drive the pipe around the balcony's periphery, no, no instruction at all.

The pipe probably points straight to a drain. You might as well shift the drain hole into a better position while you're at it, Mendip. Do a proper job!

The project wasn't supposed to start until the pigeons chicks had fledged!

Yes Nev, the grey pipe has been directed into a drainage hole just behind the pigeon nest. Not a bad location, to be honest. Mike, there was a float of around 50 Baht for any unexpected events and this would have covered about 8 corner pieces I would have thought... but anyway.

What also worries me is that a second aircon unit was moved to the other end of the balcony (for the daughter's bedroom) where there is a second drainage hole. I asked the wife to send me a pic of the finished job but since I criticised what I've seen so far she seems to have gone off comms. One of her friends was the aircon 'engineer'...

The solution is to add a 1" layer of concrete - hey presto no unsightly pipes

^ I'll get the daughter onto it, the wife doesn't seem to be speaking to me just now. All I said was, "WTF didn't you get him to guide the pipe around the edge of the balcony?". My wife doesn't respond well to comments like that.

The daughter can change the pigeon's water while she's at it!

^^^^^Thanks to the mini-Mendip for the update.

They look like baby vultures.

Are vultures maybe a cuckoo species?