The Emerald jade vine - Strongylodon Macrobotrys was sourced by Hari and planted by the pergola facing the lake in January 2006. We stumbled across it while searching for Mucuna Bennetti another grand tropical vine.
Once planted I imagined how it would look to have these foot and a half long huge hanging clusters bearing their bluish green claw shaped flowers hanging through the pergola roof.
Two years down the line it has consented to put on a show of flowers for us and to finally see it in bloom is a spectacular, amazing and most satisfying sight.
Native to the Philippines, the Jade Vine is a climbing plant that scrambles up though the tropical forest canopy to reach the light. Sadly, extensive deforestation has meant that this stunning plant is now threatened in its natural habitat, as vast swathes of the tropical forest are cleared for agriculture or felled for timber
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everybody growwww ;)
growww what?? now,now I can see you smile you utterly butterly chicken!
ahahahha ... yea i smiled :) ... but astrid always stands in her garden with her arms stretched out and says "everybodyyy growwww" ahahha ...
yeah and
as they all grow so does Aunty Astrid!!
well they do listen to me even though my brand of talking to plants may be more bossy than sweet urgings. I'm pretty sure that they enjoy the no nonsense , straight honest talk style.
Can't wait to see them, Jade Vine, with my own 'beautiful' eyes. Maybe sometime this week, on my trip to pune. They remind me of this Latin american drink Curocao which I am addicted to, nowadays. And stop giggling Aye Chickne ....you Utterly Buttterly Chicken. And move that hand. Or else.... you know-na what happened to Manoj Kumar in OSO...
ay astrid i saw the jade vine when i went last saturday ha ... its awesome .. annora took so many pictures ... killer stuff ..
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