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My Garden
The Breakfast Nook painted in
2003
Tortuga guards the back yard
The Birthday Windmills added in
2002
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There is a resident bat courtesy of
Rebecca
who loved the idea of the bats twilight flight on summer evenings
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| The East Wall |
The West Pillars |
Talitha made the bottle waistcoat
for my birthday
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All the plants were
propagated by me
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I use only the English
common names
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Click on thumbnails to view larger pictures
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Here is a little corner of my garden
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I missed the macramé phase in the seventies but my friend
Marianne came to the rescue
and showed me how to do it
My fair hands will never be the
same
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Bloomin'
Marvellous
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One night wonder
These cactus flowers droop as soon as
the morning sun hits them
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This page link
takes a long time to download
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More of our plants
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Our
caterpillars ..... they will
become ... Hawk Moths
There
are three of them munching their way through the Duranta plant
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Here's what
Hector found for me on the net
Sphinx Caterpillars
Most of them have a "horn" on the posterior end. The wing shape of the imago (adult) is distinctive, being triangular and "designed" for strength and
speed, thus the other common name for the family, the "hawk moths"
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Unfortunately
our potted specimen of their lunch must have been too small to sustain
all three caterpillars. One died early. Soon afterwards, one was on
the move. We were not certain whether it was looking for a place to
spin its cocoon or more to eat. At the rate it moved, it
certainly would have used up all its food store and would not survive
its big sleep.
Hector wanted to
go and look for a garden which has the same plant. But I wondered how
a Cypriot would react if we offered a large yellow caterpillar for his
garden?
We lost sight of
our caterpillars but are hopeful that we might see a huge hawk moth
flying around soon
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For our caterpillars 2003 go to The
Caterpillars' Return
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Ellie-Bee's Hive 
