Our home garden sights, Solar water fountain, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Built in small solar-panel powered, totally independent, water fountain floating in the pond.
The height of the water spurted out, varies with the brightness of the sunlight stiking the black, circular, floating solar panel.

Coconuts plucked by a tree climber, in our home garden.

A coconut tree climber collects Rs.300/= per tree he climbs. This was the rate in the Month of August 2022. On a sunny day of he climbs 10 trees in one hour he gets Rs.3000/=. The price of a coconut is Rs.80/= upwards.

A leisured life contemplating our home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka, 17/8/2022.

The steel swing, which has seen our daughters growing up into adulthood.

Pillows and cushions left out to dry.

The ever-alert neighbor's cat, waiting near the bird feeder.

 

Orchids in a home garden at Ehatuwewa, Anuradhapura District, Sri Lanka.

At the residence of the late Bewis Bawa, Beruwala, Sri Lanka.

Ideas for your home garden aplenty in the following presentation:-

https://youtu.be/aCk-uckCKho

Sun-bird, Parakeet and an Orchid flower, Home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Sights on a misty morning.

Butterflies, Home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Flower in bloom and ripe King Coconuts, Home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

One of the signs of feminine beauty in Sri Lanka, is to have the skin color, like that of the 'Ran Thambili' - Sinhalese for a King Coconut.

A Sqirrel and a Garden Lizard, Home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Chillie plant, Home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

The Chillie plant was native to South America. It was brought to Sri Lanka by the Portuguese in the 16th century AD. Even now a pungent variety of this plant is called 'Kochchi miris' in Sinhalese and 'Kochchikkkai' in Tamil. This recalls the time when it was brought from Cochin, South India a former Portuguese enclave.
Black pepper which was exported from Sri Lanka for more than 2000 years was native to Sri Lanka and is called 'Gammiris'  - Gamey miris - in Sinhalese meaning the local variety.
Chillie has 'capsicaine' and is used in ointments as a counter irritant, to relieve pain.

Vari-coloured leaves, Home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Squirrel foraging, home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Flower on a Cactus plant, home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Beautiful Shoe-flower, Home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Flowers, home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Color and shape of leaves, the variety, home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

The dogs looking up a tree where a squirell has escaped, home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

In Tamil there is a phrase 'ANIL ERAVITTA NAI POLA', meaning 'like a dog who has missed catching a squirrel which has scampered up a tree'. This epithet applies to a person who has just missed reaching his goal.

Orchids, Home Garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.