Growing this week
This week, we are growing: More of these beautiful but barren clouds. Some veggies, including our first ever cabbages. Aren’t they sweet? Those yard-long beans are much favoured by the […]
Category Archives: Trees
Fig Latin
There’s something about Latin names. They’re sonorous, authoritative, and sometimes even melodious. Just try rolling these on your tongue… tectona grandis, saraca asoca, dalbergia sissoo, ocimum sanctum, melia dubia, pinus […]
Ten trees you owe the planet
I’ve been too busy the last few weeks to post or even read my favourites on WordPress, but this morning I happened to read this post by Jeremy Williams. His […]
April morning
The day dawns with these gorgeous clouds. I remember an old rhyme that goes: Red in the morning, shepherd’s warning. And hope it holds good for us. Shepherds in England […]
Two trees
Walking around the village this week, I saw this grand old banyan with a tiny shrine below it… …and this cheerful laburnum. In Kerala, this tree (Cassia Fistula) announces the […]
Red and green: a stunning palette
Our March landscape is bursting with reds and greens! The palash is over, and the ground is littered with faded orange flowers and green pods. Hundreds of bright green parrots […]
Trees in waiting
As we settle in to wait for the rains, the trees in my ‘nurseries’ wait too. In clay pots and plastic bags and troughs and coir pots and coconut shells, […]
