Since I am working all day sitting on my chair, staring at my laptop screen, I like to have a walk around our garden before ending the day. It gives me an opportunity to have some fresh air while looking at the plants we have or we are growing newly. Or sometimes it makes me happy to see a fruit looking at me.
Today also I came out and started my journey from cleaning our Water Lily pot. Then I walked to see little mango tree who is holding some baby mangoes. This is the first time of producing fruit in this mango tree.
Calamansi
Then I saw there are little white flower buds on the orange tree. We already have two fruits growing and, many flowers are ready for next produce. While taking photos of it, I notices there are some others also having flowers.
Orange
Not a small amount, but there are huge number of flowers. And all these trees I have noted belongs to one family. They are members of citrus family.
I have observed Orange, Lime, Calamansi(We are referring it as local lemon, but I found its name after some investigation) and Green Mandarin. All these things, I like to make juice instead of eating them.
Orange buds
I went to all four types of trees and took photos of flowers that are trying to attract insects. Specially bees. They have their own fragrance. That is a very attractive fragrance they have.
While I was taking photos, I have noted all of them are having the same flower. At first I thought they have little difference. So I investigated more closely to find it.
Lime
They are the same. Same color, same shape, same pollen. There is not much wonder about that since all of them belongs to same family. But they will taste different even if they have same flowers.
But I got a bit confused… what if bees mixed them up. Since these plants are close in our garden, bees will be able to move from one to another easily.
Green Madarin
If they mixed it up, our oranges will taste like Lime and limes will be like green mandarin đŸ˜‚. We will have to wait for the results of what bees have done to these flowers.
So, let’s wait a while and see what happened when we can harvest these fruits.
I invite and
to check the @riverflows/time-to-share-your-gardens-in-march contest.