River Vista @ Bendemeer (near Kallang)

Monitor Lizards

Hubby Dearest came across this giantic, ugly-looking monitor lizard scavenging alongside the drain during low tide.

I hate lizards & am frightened of them.  Reptiles - Urgh! 

This is a juvinile monitor lizard as it is smaller in size as compared to the rest who were also present but camera shy.

This is a larger version of a monitor lizard detected within the same vicinity.

River Bird

I had mistaken these birds for King Fisher much to the amusement of Hubby Dearest who grew up in the kampong.  He claimed that such birds are quite a common sight near rivers and some were seen at boat quay.

Ginger Plants

These ginger plants never fail to fascinate us with their attractive, yummy-looking red "corns" & their orange bud-like blooms which provide nectar to sunbirds.

We have them featured in our blogging entries "The story of my tree musketeers" between 2010 to 2011 and have taken many beautiful & interesting photographs of these plants & their friendly companions.

Once again, we are delighted to feature this particular breed of ginger plant here in our blog.  However, we no longer own any of such ginger plants.  These vast bed of beautiful ginger plants are probably owned by NEA.

They are definitely a popular choice for adding beauty to landscapes at home premises & public places, including the front porch of commercial buildings.  Definitely a very common sight here in Singapore.

Please enjoy the beauty of these ginger plants in these photographs.

I read somewhere that the ants are found on the Ginger plants as they are there to preserve the "seeds" so that the plants will thrive.  I see a whitish colored spider clinging onto one of the leaves (left hand side of the photograph).

Other Birds

These 2 birds are found to be bred at the premises of a remoted place near Kallang.

We're not sure what these birds are known as scietifically but they are definitely noisy chaps who called out non-stop at any slight movement within their visual field.

Another pretty breed of Ginger Plant

This particular breed of ginger lineage was seen at one of the community gardens in a HDB estate.

It is definitely a lovely addition to any home garden!

A free flow of photographs of my Ginger plants

You'll have noticed by now that I haven't really mentioned anything about my evergreen money plant ... Perhaps it was repotted on a dampy sort of soil which has a very strong stench of urea, and it doesn't catch on much sunlight at its location, it wasn't growing vigorously... Since its progression was somewhat slow-going or passive, I had as a result, overlooked it...

By the time it was being brought down to the community garden, it was too late as it seems to have died even though the RC member (an elderly aunty with green fingers) repotted it & placed it at a supposedly ideal location.

We trim off a section of the "tendrils" where the baby leaves were growing out from & placed it in a bowl of water with oyster shells & those of the giant, deep-sea scallop which we brought home after a huge feast of seafood buffet at shangrila hotel.

Surprisingly, under my hubby's somewhat negligent style of care, the money plant is surviving even though we did notice that it seems to have inherited the jaundiced appearance of the parent plant!

The leaves that grew out didn't look dark greenish.  Instead, they had a yellowy tinge to their leaves as illustrated in the photographs below:

It doesn't look as yellowy in the photographs.  However, in reality, the leaves had a yellowy appearance.

Perhaps the cause for the jaundice appearance is a result of a lack of sunlight?

Here's a free flow of my ginger plants in bloom ...  It's a feast to one's eyes when we set our sight on them! :)

Oh dear, editing using the Aviary Tool is soooooooooo user unfriendly & slow-moving with unexpected alignment issues when editing that I had to forgo water-marking my photographs with copyright. :(