Wild, Wild, Wild! Flowers and Whatnots

Overgrown Garden

Dad decided to go and check how my uncle's garden has been doing, since he's been away for a few weeks already and nobody is tending to his plants. Surely, there would be lots of overgrown weeds and his vegetables would have grown and harvest are due (if not yet helped by the neighbors).

It has rained over the past weeks and there definitely were lots of weeds around and fascinatingly, beautiful wild flowers.

While mom was checking which veggies she could forage, Little Man and I wend around to take some photos.

These flowers were barely a foot off the ground. They're small and grew in bunches like this. The first photo is a magnified version.

I definitely have no clue how this is dainty one is called, but it is certainly deserves a spotlight for today.

These birds of paradise caught my attention sometime prior to our visit,as we passed by on our way to somewhere else. I told myself, I have to make sure to take a snap of it. I don't think I did justice to it though. Bad photography. LOL.

And what can you say about this purple beauty?!

Be careful what you pick!

Dad said there weren't much to pick from my uncle's unruly patch. Perhaps the neighbors took them already?

Funnily, my uncle didn't bother to put trellisses for his growing vines. Not even tried to separate them. "Let them get along and marry" style. LOL.

I tried to peek more and still found a few string beans. Thankfully, I did not pick a snake. 😖

I found not a snake though, but this peculiar spider I saw for the very first time ever.

Here below are ants. Jk, these are pomelo flowers. Pomelo are large citrus fruits that are very common here. One of my favorites, for sure.

I learned something new. I found a sage plant. I didn't know they are very common here. Mom said it's "sambong" in Tagalog. It has medicinal properties -- she dries the leaves and makes tea of it for her kidney issues.

Looking around we also found lots of fruit tree sprouts -- particularly mangoes and cotton fruit that have fallen from the trees. Hmmm... more trees to bear fruits in the coming years.

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