🏡Into the Garden: Photography and Personal Stories🎍

Hi, fellow HIVERS! How are you? I hope you're doing great. Before leading you to the main topic, just a friendly reminder to drink more water due to the high temperature occurring and to stay at home or seek out some fresh air in a shaded area to avoid direct sunlight.

So here's the thing, while scrolling through my gallery, I stumbled upon some of my photography projects in MAPEH, where we will be taking pictures with good quality and eye-catching images. I just want to share with y'all the images I captured in our garden and a short life story of mine with that certain plant. Though I admit it's not that high quality, I think it's gorgeous.

I am focusing on capturing only the leaves of the plant since that is the theme I chose for our project.

_{Asystasia gangetica}

First is this plant. I don't really know what kind of plant this was. I searched on Google, and it states that this plant is Chinese violet (Asystasia gangetica), do you have this in where you live too? If that is so, what do you call this plant in your home town? I'd really love to know what other unique names this plant has.

_{Bougainvillea leaves}

The second plant is bougainvillea; bougainvillea is very common here in our neighborhood. Bougainvillea is both the best and the worst plant, in my opinion. It's the best because it is indeed a beautiful plant that can catch your eye, especially when it's blooming. It's like a cherry blossom but not as large as the cherry blossom tree. The reason why I don't like it (just sharing my experience) is because of their thorns. I have a very, very unhappy memory with their thorns. Yes, I was a victim of their thorns, or, I should say, a victim of my own action. It's just while helping my grandmother clean the garden that the thorn pricked my eye and it hurt so bad that short-tempered me fights back (yeah, I know it's crazy. I'm just 8 years old back then) and just ends up getting many scars in my arms and legs, and bougainvillea's thorns won. Lesson learned: don't fight the things that can hurt you, and never take any revenge because karma is real.

_Oregano

The third plant is oregano. Here, we called this kulabo. My grandma said that it is used as an herbal plant. There's so much benefit to it. I remember my grandma boiling the oregano and applying it to my knee because I had a wound there. My grandma also create haplas, which is made of oregano and smells so good (haplas is like a liquid ointment that can help you relax when you have a headache or body pain). But not all oregano is safe for everyone. I heard adults talking about not applying or taking oregano if you're pregnant because it might harm the baby. I searched it on Google, and yes, it may cause miscarriage.

_Chili

The fourth one is chili. Actually, this plant just grew here in the garden. I asked my aunt if she planted it, but she said no. In my conclusion, I think this chili grew here because the people around here love chili (except me; I have a stomach problem), and they're just throwing the seeds, and then after years, it grows. Chili is the least favorite seasoning of mine. My family and friends are aware of that because it burns my stomach, my face can't hide it, and I can't sleep every night if I consume chili (I keep going to the bathroom). I understand why people love this, though it adds flavor to your foods that makes them more tastier to eat, but it's just not meant for me.

_{philodendron erubescens}

Next is this plant, which I called this land lily, because its shape kind of looks like a water lily, but only it grows on land. I don't really know what they called this plant. All I know is that I used this plant as a plate for my barbeque leaves edition, where banana leaves are the intestine, jackfruit leaves are the fish, hagonoy (devil weed) is the pork, etc.

_Santan

Last but not least is the Santan. This plant is part of my childhood journey. I remember I used to create crowns, bracelets, and necklaces using santan and even drank the juice from it (don't worry, the juicy, tasty water inside the santan flower is edible).

That's all for today, thank you so much for having time to read my blog. Have a good day y'all!