A 40-Year Labor of Tropical Gardening Love, Part 2

More tropical splendor

Today we ’re fall to Kannan Pasamanickam ’s tropical garden in Malaysia .

The garden has undergone many modifications over the class , and I have cultivated rose wine , lilies , heliconias , jasmine , orchids , bauhinia , Thai and Chinese ginger flowers , bottleful brush , passiflora , and frangipani with vary degrees of success . The flowers draw in butterflies and bird , which have built nests , laid their eggs , and raised their young . This even we find out a nest make by a yellow-bellied vent bulbul in a puff combretum bush behind our kitchen ; I bring off to get a icon of the sister birds as they stuck their heads out waiting for their mother to feed them .

In a small pond at the northern corner of the garden , I once grew white lotus flora with beautiful red-faced bloom , but aphids destroy them a year later . Herons and kingfisher are attracted to the koi fish in the pool and occasionally succeed in steal a Pisces the Fishes . Bauhenia kockkianaand Rangoon creeper(Combretum indicum)have been train to climb up the bower in the southern box of the garden , and they produce beautiful bouquets of flowers .

Now that I ’m in my mid - sixties , my worry is maintenance of the garden ; I am physically less fit and am ineffective to drop the many hours that I could as a younger man , tending to the needs of my plants . But there are no regrets , as this garden has given uncurbed joy to me and my family over the year . It has been a tremendous journey and a spread for all our senses .

This koi in our pool was five years onetime . lamentably , it die of a parasitic infection that I could not command .

Pink waterlilies blooming in the pond .

The garden pool ring by plants .

I inherited this lazy chair from my Church Father . I ’ve spent many a blistering afternoon lazing next to the pool , protected from mosquitoes by the fine netting surrounding our porch .

Bauhenia kockiana

Black - naped oriel on a bottlebrush bush ( Callistemonsp . )

Two hungry baby birds in their nest in the powderpuff bush ( Combretum constrictum ) .

prime on the powderpuff bush .

Roses are very difficult to grow in the Torrid Zone , and hot weather condition and aphid are big foeman .

Desert blush wine ( Adeniumspecies and hybrids ) love the rut !

A desert rose hybrid

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