They Will Survive

Hi friends

I am away from home and would only be back in a week's time.  

It is very hot here. There are no trees except for small plants and shrubs and the decorative palm trees. Their landscaping is quite ok on the fourth floor where the swimming pool is but here below there is nothing much. And the unit I am in is on the ground floor. 

I hope it is not as hot back at home. I worry for my plants, they might get dried up especially those small plants and plants that I have just replanted or repotted. They would not get watered for as long as I am in absence. 

Of course, I hope nature can help. I pray for rain to come. But seeing the weather condition now I cannot depend on hope alone.

I am quite lucky I have big trees growing in the compound. So I moved those mobile ones from their usual sunny spot into the shade.  Even those permanently under the tree their flowers might not last long in this hot and dry days. 

Those that cannot be moved I scatter around them lots of dried leaves so that the ground would stay wet after I last water them. Most of my potted plants are placed directly on the ground. 

I have thought about some kind of self-watering system but until now I am not able to devise one although I don't know how many times I have seen how people do it on videos. 

Some plants I know they can survive with little water and some plants have rooted deep into the ground and can find water by itself like the bunga kesidang which has grown all over the mulberry tree. This plant surely can survive without being watered for days. I don't have worry for these.

I hope these just recently repotted cattleyas won't dry up

And these small chili plants in the plastic pots I hope they won't die.

In the months to come, I may have to leave home again for more than a few days at a time. I must find the watering solutions for my garden plants.

Sometimes it makes me wonder why some plants like those weeds whose growth are unwanted can forever survive in extreme conditions without much ado.


Stay cool.


Till next entry, bye.