Sunday, October 31, 2010
My mom was borned to have green fingers, I am sure. I have seen her grow many trees and plants at our home garden. All survive and live long enough to bear fruits and flowers to make us (me, too, of course) proud. We have various kinds of vegetables and fruits from our yard. Some are rarely found at the market.
She grew lead trees around the compound of our house so lead trees acted as our fence while offering us their young leafs for meals. Those green lead trees were long gone now. They were repalced by grey brick walls covered with concrete slaps. It looks stronger but more boring and lifeless, as well.
Many other trees and plants at our home garden were disappeared , too. But I still have them fresh in my memory. A big, strong trunk of kaffir lime with thick shrubs of its green leafs and bumpy skinned fruits hanging from those spiky branches stood near the fence. Nearby were a lime tree with its green round fruits and a lemon tree with its egg-shaped fruits in bright yellow colour. Lime fruits are smaller and round compared to lemon fruits. Mom always used limes for her cooking. Lemon juice is too sweet for her cooking.
Other green trees grown by my mom included jackfruit, coconut, banana, lemongrass, garangal, Thai basil and sweet basil. Ginger, wild ginger, cummin, starfruit, mango, water apple, custard apple, pomelo, patato, wild jam and gourd were also planted along with bitter gourd, papaya, gooseberry, horse-raddish, chili, swamp cabbage, pumpkin and garcinia.
We also found a variety of mushrooms growing at some rotten tree stumps or piles of old and rotten leafs in our garden in rainy season, too.
There are still many names of plants and trees in my younger years left unmentioned. They are all the proof of my mom's green fingers. I helped mom grow some of those, but I thought the growing part came from my mom's talent and the trees' willing for cooperation. They obviously did not give me much coooperation when I decided to grow them myself.
Still, I do not and will not give up on them since I love to see the world go green again. I just decided that I will pay good attentions on those trees and plants that are willing to cooperate with me and want to last long with my love and care.
Good news, I have four five pots of plants survive at my balcony. A tough jasmine tree that was nearly dead more than three times because I was away due to my work trips away from Bangkok. A generous palm tree( he lets my cats eat his leafs with no sign to die soon), a dark-green-leaf tree (I forgot his name. He was given away from a green project by Bangkok Metropolitan Authority). And two climbing trees that have weird and forerign names. The rest two plants are mostly died-hard typed I ever met.
Now, who said I have no " green fingers" :)
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