When the rains have cooled the plants they love basking in the sun

starting afresh after monsoon pest invasion and the cyclone

shade net re installed

seedling of a flower..4 OÇlock 

seedling egg plant & tomato

transplanted morning glory

orchids strewn around on the terrace find new homes

orchids new home

spinach seedling 2 days old

Methi a day old

Methi seedling 2 days old

orchids and shade loving plants find shelter under the Gulmohar

Chennai Cyclone..neelam & the Garden :(

shade net ripped in the center right across

pots overturned supports for vines fallen all pots soaked in water 

unusual visitor trying to hide from natures fury

tried to get him out as he was uprooting the plants but scuttled back..

ornamental plants

an attempt to photograph pollination

yellow welcome @gate

Bee @ work - bad photo:( not easy chasing a bee flitting from flower to flower

These two are meant to hold tooth brush but put to better use

rain drops

pea cock flower

Kings Mantle flowering time

Peacock Flower

Ixora

Tithonia

adenium

Zinia

getting ready -an ornamental corner

half way thro establishing a shade loving plants corner

progress

another view

zinias of various hues

Adenium when the sun peeped out for a couple of days after a long spell of rain

pests and the kitchen garden

This just a sample every single leaf of spinach is eaten up that little fellow and his dozens of companion seems  to be the culprit
This is not the only variety there are large grasshopper variety green yellow and brown which has striped the leaves of one of the 3 cauliflower have isolated the plant so that it does not spread
Some powdery white insects on the okra
Some minute yellowish insects creeping around the bitter gourds leaves
The brinjal , the tomato even the snake gourd which till yesterday was okay has been affected.
The terrace kitchen garden looks like an ICU full of organic pesticides neem oil , garlic-turmeric solution , ,panchagavya despite that this is the situation . Decided to give it a few more months if the situation does not improve post monsoon I just go back to ornamental plants  and quit trying to grow my own vegetables :(

Ridge gourd was full of flowers when this attack started

This made me cry ...

What the bitter gourd looked like before the pests invaded

Leaves of cauliflower disappeared overnight

eggplant

plumeria

pests come in all sizes and shapes