Appu and Dessie, two of our cats, love to sleep under the two mango trees in front of our house these days. During the daytime, that is, when the temperature threatens to brush 40 degrees Celsius. The shade beneath the mango trees remains a cool 28 degrees or so. Mango trees have this tremendous cooling effect. When I constructed the house, the area in front had no touch of greenery as you can see in the pic below. Now the same area, which was totally arid then, looks like what's below: Appu and Dessie find their bower in that coolness. I wanted to have a lot of colours around my house. I tried growing all sorts of flower plants and failed rather miserably. The climate changes are beyond the plants’ tolerance levels. Moreover, all sorts of insects and pests come from nowhere and damage the plants. Crotons survive and even thrive. I haven’t given up hope with the others yet. There are a few adeniums, rhoeos, ixoras, zinnias and so on growing in the pots. They are trying their
Beautiful!!
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ReplyDeleteMy instinct would have made me say 'lovely' but since someone already wrote that I'll say 'very pretty' instead ;-)
ReplyDeleteYou will make an excellent teacher of botany!
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Awesome and serene!
ReplyDeleteVery charming.
ReplyDeleteWoW! What a greenery! Kerala is so blessed..
ReplyDeleteWe in Kerala are blessed
ReplyDeletecolorfully green !! :) awesome photograph !!
ReplyDeleteLove this!
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ReplyDeleteSo serene and beautiful !
ReplyDeleteI could kill to live in such a place.
ReplyDeletenice place to go for picnic...
ReplyDeletevery nice..:-)
ReplyDeleteThe many shades of mother nature ! beautiful path of greenery !
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