Welcome to our little corner of paradise. Nestled under leaves of many trees and surrounds with many green plants. Our home is a living testament to the beauty and serenity that Mother Nature provides. We find solace in this haven. I don't mean that we have a beautiful house because actually our house was just made of lightweight materials, and as the years passed , its almost wrecked. I just want to share with you where my house settled with different trees and plants.
As the extreme heat we are experiencing keep on rising,and lots of people having a hard time coping with the intense heat, we are at home just chilling under the shade of trees that my parents planted years ago. Especially my mom, she really loves to plant, she has a green hand. She really believes in the saying "kung may itatanim, may aanihin".
These are the views above our roof. Yeah, I know there are lots of autumn leaves on it, but it's okay, they will eventually fall off on the ground anyway when the wind blows and my mother will sweep them off and gather, burn them to keep mosquitoes away especially at dusk.
My father ordered a fabric hammock and tied both ends to the trees. So whenever the sun is way too hot, my mom will go there and sit on the hammock to relax. My mom is not fun of high heat since she was suffered from stroke. High heat makes her blood pressure rise .
He made also a little hut beneath the trees so that my kids will sleep inorder to save electricity consumption. Actually he built it as a cage for our chickens,he changed his mind and built another for the chickens.
In our surroundings there are lots of fruit bearing trees that my parents planted years ago. Some already bear fruits which we have already tasted and some are still growing and we are waiting for it to bear some.
We have varieties of mangoes, we have some
🌱Mangifera altissima, commonly known as "pajo". We have harvested it many times, and there are lots of this kind in our backyard. We have 10 trees of mangoes, half of them already bear fruits.
Me and my father are eating some pajo Mango.
We also have a sole tree of purple mango. It is still small but as years will pass it will bear fruit also. I can really tell that it was a purple one because I'm the one who ate it before , it was given to me by my late uncle from Negros as a "pasalubong" and my mother planted the seed.
🌱 carabao mangoes
Here my nephew is eating a nearly ripe carabao mango.
🌱 Jackfruits
My father got one of the unripe jackfruits, cut it into two and cooked the other half and made into a "kinilaw na nangka" and that was our lunch this day.
He boiled some of the seeds for our snacks. I guarantee you it was tasty. If you are used to being poor, this snacks are already delicious for us, especially if you have already tasted it before.
My father put the jackfruit peelings in the banana. It will decomposed and turn into fertilizer. It is an organic fertilizer and will not harm the soil.
🌱Banana
Whenever my younger sister comes home and if there are ripe bananas, she will bake them into a banana cake using a rice cooker since we don't have an oven.
🌱rose apple.
🌱Guavas
Whoever in my family will suffer form diarrhea, we will get some immature leaves of guava and eat. Guava leaf extract is antimicrobial. It helps neutralize harmful microbes in our guts that can cause diarrhea. It prevent or reduce diarrhea and constipation. And if ever we have wounds we washed them with boiled guava leaves, because it has an antiflammatory, antibacterial and analgesic properties that can aid in wound healing. But we have to cool down the water before washing the wounds ,we might get burned 🤣.I remember when my son had his circumcision, this is what I always wash his wound and it got better not longer.
This variety is the native one , which we can see whenever we wonder at bushes.
This variety is the commercial one, which we see at fruit markets.
🌱Cacao
She planted this plant because she wanted to make a cocoa out of it. She wants to know how to make chocolate. But how can she make some if she only has one cacao tree 🤣.
🌱pomelos
Whenever we eat some pomelo, my mom will get our seeds and plant them outside or throw them in her garden. It grows and now we have many trees of it.
🌱Soursop
My mom get some leaves of it and boiled them , let them cool and drink. Scientifically and traditionally proven that it's leaves have proven that it has natural benefits . It helps lower blood pressure, that's why my mom planted many seeds of it and they are now growing.
🌱Avocado
This variety of avocado came from Dalaguete. When we visited there, my uncle give us a whole sack of unripe avocado. My mom planted the seeds when they got ripe. Now we have many avocados in our backyard and they have many baby avocados hanging from their branches.
🌱Lanzones
🌱Miracle fruit
My mom plant this tree because of its health benefits.
🌱Dragon fruit
She have planted dragon fruit and have lots of branches already, 5 years have passed and it barely bear fruit. My mom relocated every stem and plant in the place where it could be hit by direct sunlight.
🌱Sugar apple
She thought it was the green rose apple as what her boss said but when the tree bears fruit many years later, she finds out it is the regular one.
🌱 Coconut
Our surroundings seems like a forest ,where lots of trees growing. It give us shade and food, not only for us but also for the birds who come to our backyards and share food with us. The leaves of this plants serves as a canopy from the heat of the sun. This will help absorb carbon dioxide in our atmosphere so I'm persuading everyone to plant trees to lessen the effects of climate change. Even in this way we can help our mother earth recover. If you look above in our place, this is what you will see.
My mother also loves to plant ornamental plants. She treats them like her babies. Since she stayed home after her stroke, this was her way of having fun, planting varieties of ornamentals. I don't actually know what's the name of her plants.
She put a table and some chairs near her plants. Whenever she eats, she will set here and look at her plants , it relieves her stress and makes her day.
My father really knows that my mom loves to plant. He supported my mom's hobbies and made a garden for her. He used the empty bottles of alcoholic drinks to make a garden for my mom where she can plant her plants.
When he runs out of empty bottles, he gets some bamboo and make my mom another garden.
My mom plants it with different vegetables.
🌱Okra
🌱 Eggplant
🌱Malunggay
🌱Ube
🌱Chili
🌱Agbati
🌱Ginger
When also have an American lemon and pineapple.
With all the plants in our backyard, I throw a joke on my mom that when all these trees bears fruit she will eventually become a fruit vendor🤣. She laughed at my joke and responded that, if ever that happens she will not hesitate to sell because her items she's selling are the products of her hardworks and she can gain profit from them.
This plant is a living testament that we will reap whatever we sow. From the garden to our table, it is a sustainable living with no inorganic substances added.So I better be like my mom and start planting seeds that we can benefit from rather than going to other people's houses and do gossiping and spreading false information. Just by planting trees we can help rebuild our planet.
I will end my blog here, and I hope you find it interesting. Have a good day everyone.