We are so used to life and death in gardening. It is part and parcel of the whole big kingdom of plants; to live and to die. Now is the turn...

Sweet corn is not new here. We grew sweet corns during the first half of  last year with some measure of success. Now sweet corns are com...

winged bean viewed from the house, heavy and dense on the trellis blooming coleus and roselle. Coleus loves a little bit of shade. For ea...

okra flower facing the other side. and a light blue winged bean flower quite visible somewhere at the bottom. okra flower, another view,  t...

okra get entwined flowering okra  with winged bean shoots going round. I cant imagine okra will grow this tall judging by its look  last ...

Kelisa is the name of  three different things in Malaysia.  1. For Kelisa, the name is primarily about  a plant that is about to bloom in m...

Winged bean plant, standing up refusing to bend and rest (that man squatting is a municipal worker, looking after the landscape) That bri...

Winged beans or kacang kelisa  are growing at four different locations in our little garden. Two of them are allowed to grow with trellis to...

    I seldom allow plants to die standing. As soon as the plants are showing sign of old age, or serious pest attack, I will put emot...

        matured winged bean. Flowers will end up as beans, but at times I love the flowers more and how I wish they stay a l...

winged beans on three legged trellis. I read some where about winged beans being very independent. They survive even on the most hostile...

The trouble with  gardening is, we may grow more than required. It was our winged beans. The present beans growing are through reseeding.......

There are more and more winged beans to pick. For the two of us, we don't need many. Three or four would be enough to spice up the appet...