Oh My Flowers!

For once my Adenium bloomed with such a red intensity. It must have been due to the fertilizer I added to the soil. I love flowers. Who doesn't, right? They are so pretty. There is one special flower in my garden that I have long waited for it to bloom. It finally did.

This is Bunga Kantan (Torch Ginger) which I planted about 4 years ago. I was thrilled when I saw this flower bud.

And then I discovered there were two.

I love bunga kantan. You will find this flower used in Asam Laksa and Asam Fish. It's also very nice in kerabu.

But no, I wasn't going to harvest the flower and eat it. It's too precious to me.

I wanted to see it bloom to its full glory.

Both my Bunga Kantan have since faded and I wonder when I will see the next bloom.

And then, my lime plant flowered. Again, I was thrilled.

This lime plant has been growing for donkey years without bearing fruit. It flowered two years ago but the flowers (there were three) dropped.

This time, it developed. Finally!

I counted five little fruits.

Another flower that decided to grace my garden is this lily. I don't know what sort of lily this is.

I noticed this flower bud one morning. It kept growing taller. 

I counted four flower buds. 

Then it bloomed one by one.

The flower droops and reminds me of a showerhead. 

My curry plant is also flowering. 

And then I found this little critter feasting on my lime plant.

OK, I gotta go and do a Dexter on this perpetrator.