Exotic on Guimaras. Passiflora miniata, Neptune Pittman's Garden Resort, Tatasan, Buenavista, Guimaras, Philippines
What pheromones are to ants, the internet is to us modern human beings. When those traces of chemical messages are broken, ants are at a loss; so too flickrites when the electric signals are absent. But now I can share a photo again... if not yet comment readily.
Between the larger islands of Panay and Negros lies smaller and very pretty mango-tree verdant Guimaras lapped by turquoise seas. From the lovely city of Iloílo in the southeast of Panay, take a banca, a motor boat with outriggers, about half an hour to Buenavista, a port of Guimaras. Board a tricycle there and be taken to Neptune Pittman's Resort. It's in fact a small 'bed-and-breakfast', and it's set in a wonderful, private botanical garden. Neptune Pittman has collected exotica from all over the world. Here she and a very pleasant knowledgable staff of young women and men nourish them.
It's more of a horticulturalist place than a botanical garden. Still, I had a fine morning there marvelling with three young ladies of the staff over the beauty of both green and flowering plants. There's a nice Jade Vine and Black Orchids from southern Mindanao - neither in blossom now but interesting to see. Most plants, though, are exotics from elsewehere: great bromeliads, succulents, agaves, jasmines but also those beauties of the tropics: plumerias.
This is a Passiflora miniata. Before 2006 when John (R.J.R.) Vanderplank put some order to the Passifloras, one of its popular names was Passiflora coccinea. I've posted a photo of one earlier from the slopes of the Merapi on Java, Indonesia. But I liked the ants on this one...
Walking the gardens with the nice staff admiring exotics, my eye fell on the pretty weeds, many in flower. So I pulled out my magnifying glass, and we had a good time learning about those small and common plants - e.g. some nice spurges - neglected here as elsewhere. Meanwhile the Pharmacist from V. was having his coffee in the shade of magnificent stands of Thunbergia.
Exotic on Guimaras. Passiflora miniata, Neptune Pittman's Garden Resort, Tatasan, Buenavista, Guimaras, Philippines
What pheromones are to ants, the internet is to us modern human beings. When those traces of chemical messages are broken, ants are at a loss; so too flickrites when the electric signals are absent. But now I can share a photo again... if not yet comment readily.
Between the larger islands of Panay and Negros lies smaller and very pretty mango-tree verdant Guimaras lapped by turquoise seas. From the lovely city of Iloílo in the southeast of Panay, take a banca, a motor boat with outriggers, about half an hour to Buenavista, a port of Guimaras. Board a tricycle there and be taken to Neptune Pittman's Resort. It's in fact a small 'bed-and-breakfast', and it's set in a wonderful, private botanical garden. Neptune Pittman has collected exotica from all over the world. Here she and a very pleasant knowledgable staff of young women and men nourish them.
It's more of a horticulturalist place than a botanical garden. Still, I had a fine morning there marvelling with three young ladies of the staff over the beauty of both green and flowering plants. There's a nice Jade Vine and Black Orchids from southern Mindanao - neither in blossom now but interesting to see. Most plants, though, are exotics from elsewehere: great bromeliads, succulents, agaves, jasmines but also those beauties of the tropics: plumerias.
This is a Passiflora miniata. Before 2006 when John (R.J.R.) Vanderplank put some order to the Passifloras, one of its popular names was Passiflora coccinea. I've posted a photo of one earlier from the slopes of the Merapi on Java, Indonesia. But I liked the ants on this one...
Walking the gardens with the nice staff admiring exotics, my eye fell on the pretty weeds, many in flower. So I pulled out my magnifying glass, and we had a good time learning about those small and common plants - e.g. some nice spurges - neglected here as elsewhere. Meanwhile the Pharmacist from V. was having his coffee in the shade of magnificent stands of Thunbergia.