Thread: What's in your garden?

Freddy the Christmas Tree Frog has rocked up on the balcony and demands to be fed live moths of an evening

Yams are looking particularly enticing this year.

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The Christmas frog has moved into the frogararium from the jar and been given his evening moth

Not the sharpest tool in the box this fella

Good effort Nev...



I have managed to get him eating hotdog bits from the Butcher Birds' supply. If you move a piece round with a stick he eventually goes for it which I was not expecting. This is great as it makes frog-life a little bit easier as those moths don't catch themselves.

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I'm sure he would enjoy a dessert of one of these butterflies. This guy's been enjoying our garden for most of the afternoon.

Good picture.

^^Looks frogalicious tasty PAG but the Christmas frog has moved on to pastures new due to an invasion by an extremely large insect after dinner this evening...

Veggie curry soup/stew was made for dinner by Amazonian Swiss Maori lady who likes to cook in my kitchen.

Its fruity and spicy aroma must have aroused the interest of the wildlife.

For pudding before the attack we raided the Christmas hamper one of my customers sent me.

Then after pudding was complete we were marauded by this giant 25cm long stick insect visitor from the garden. He landed on my face in the dark and I could not see what it was except that it was enormous. I swiped him onto the mattress and lucky I got the lights on and identified him before ASM took evasive action and smashed him with a pillow.

I considered feeding him to the Christmas frog but I then I thought he would have been a bit of a mouthful.

So I instead vacated the frogararium and installed the new resident, so there is an extra tree frog in my garden tonight and a new garden-resident as a house-guest.

He is 25cm long with his arms stretched out

Not in our garden, these from the market, pursat, lamyai, passionfruit.


Don't often see passionfruit on sale, these were 3kg for 100 baht. Good price, years back when living in Sa Kaeo we'd go to a pick your own orchard where they cost 20 baht per kg. They grew them on an overhead wire mesh framework. Larger and not as sweet as the purple skinned variety.

Originally Posted by prawnograph

pursat

I don't think I have ever eaten one of those. What do they taste like?

Originally Posted by Shutree

I don't think I have ever eaten one of those. What do they taste like?

My spelling error, should be putsar or putsa. A small and not overly crisp apple-like fruit, I'd buy them again.

Putsa are more commonly known as jujube, or Ziziphus jujuba which is the agreed scientific name. They grow in many different regions of the world from Asia across to South Eastern Europe and also in the Caribbean.

Young Putsa are similar to apples

I'll look out for them in the market.

The wind overnight brought down a large branch from one of the avocado trees. Just wondering if I should use a bread knife to chop it up ala Mendy, buy a saw and chop it myself ala Stumpmeister, or wait for the gardener to sort it out tomorrow…


either way I will probably deserve a beer.

^ Call that branch???

Just chop it up with a machete, 5 minutes max.

Originally Posted by Mendip

Just chop it up with a machete, 5 minutes max.

Really? I don't believe I have seen that in your projects. Typically 3 or 4 days and pics of the gardener dragging it away.

^ The gardener's off this weekend.

Anyway, that ain't a 'project', that's a stick.

Originally Posted by DrWilly

buy a saw and chop it myself ala Stumpmeister,

I opt for that option. Tools can be your friends. Plus you have them for other jobs.

But I agree, have a beer and ponder options.

^^ never said it was a project…

Branch still there, been dragged out Xmas shopping with the wifey.

Found a cafe serving mimosa… while I ponder.

Here’s some produce we got out of the garden this week also.

Dry times ahead; this is from the entrance road to our property; the 2023 non-wet season water level was never more than around 0.5 m didn't reach the top of the reeds, in a 'good' wet season can be 1.5-1.8m deep.
The councile reservoir nearest us (but not the one our town water supply comes from) never exceeded 40% capacity this year.
No fish, and the white egrets have relocated to our small pond by the house which still has around 1-1.2m water level.

Bioluminescent mushrooms in the forest

That is my Friday pizza topping sorted

Spooky mushrooms.
In the wetter weather there are people around here who forage for wild mushrooms, they get a good price in the market. However, every time I have found some tasty looking fungi about the place I have received a firm "No!" from the locals. Some are quite poisonous, they tell me, although they look very similar to the edible ones.

Every morning the dog's water bowl is full of crud. I finally caught the culprit in the act. It seems this Banded bullfrog likes a midnight swim.

Frogs


3m up on a recently painted wall, just how do they hang on? Lively one too, any awake neighbour may have wondered just what I was doing on the balcony wearing a towel waving a broom.

Homing frog. Could it be the same one I evicted over they wall from its hiding place in a shoe on Thursday?

Like tree is producing. I see tequilas in my new future.