Moon Flowers

I walked past the fence this evening and saw from the corner of my eyes a couple of large white blobs and realised that they were the flowers from the moon vines. Looks like the flowering period is on for the moon vines!

Solitary Red Long Bean

I saw many of such kind of flowers at the long bean trellis and there was a solitary single red long bean at the moment. There will be more coming, I'm sure , looking at the flowers on the trellis.
There should also be some green long beans on the same trellis too. I'm watching out for them.

Flowers Not In Sync!

I was at the CG in the morning about 9 am when I saw at the corner of my eyes a couple of big yellow botches on a planting trellis. I realised that it was the pumpkin flowers. I quickly ran over to check and saw a couple more male flowers bloomed. Then I looked for the female flowers with the familiar buldge .... but alas! I only saw a single solitary one and it hasn't bloomed yet.
So not in sync .... how to produce baby pumpkins ah?

Orthosiphon aristatus (Cat's Whiskers)

This is grown in the CG and I've ever tasted a tea made with it's leaves and Marigold flowers when I visited my GCS friend's office garden. As it was my first time drinking such a tea, the taste was rather special and I really won't mind drinking the concoction again except with a little bit of sugar this time round :-)
Here's the link for it's medicinal uses ...

http://www.herbsarespecial.com.au/free-herb-information/cats-whiskers.html

Justicia betonica (White Shrimp Plant)

Pumpkin Vines

I love to look at the lush vines of the pumpkin in the CG and it has new shoots climbing up my MG trellis. Sooner or later it's gonna over run the small trellis and the life of the MG may be suffocated. My original intention was to just let the vines grow on the ground and make the vines go round the planter bed. Looks like the vines have a 'mind' of their own LOL.

About the female flowers .... they did appear but for a short while and they don't bloom cos' most of them somehow self abort. How now? I see the many male flowers blooming away again at this time of the year. The vines always turn more lush after adding new compost to the planter bed.
Female pumpkin flowers .... where are you?

Basella alba (Ceylon Spinach)

See how the Ceylon Spinach has taken over part of the CG fence. I know the Bangladesh worker who cleans the area always cut the leaves for a meal. I asked him once how does he eat the leaves and he told me he cooks a curry with it :-)