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16th January 2009 The P etticoat P alm My husbands grand father built this house with love and such detail planning .... He planted Petticoat palms as avenue trees around the house. This Petticoat Palm is native to California & Mexico region, again grown as avenue tree. It has dense fan like leaves. It is solid tall tree: with a skirt of dead dropping leaves supporting the above crown of large green fan shaped leaves. The dead dropping leaves -- are unsightly & quite a nuisance to clear and tidy up. Parrots and birds love its fruits and a large number gather early morning to chirp, eat, meet and enjoy its fruit. Propagation of Petticoat palm is done by seeds which germinate slowly. It grows easily in mild climates sometimes tolerating sub freezing temperatures.

Jan 16th 2009 More on The B amboo: I observed some amazing bamboo on the streams/ rivulet banks in the Western Ghats from where the River Tangabudra originates. These have fine leaves and they bow deep, arching their stems gracefully into the stream, revering the gushing waters…. . some striking wild variety…! It is said that Eastern Himalayas (Darjeeling- NW Bengal- Sikkim- Bhutan- Arunachal Pradesh) zone of India has some 26 varieties of Bamboo. Including the Rhinoceros or Kaghzi Bamboo. Interestingly, the number of the species of Bamboo goes on decreasing moving westward… and there is NO Bamboo in the beautiful Kashmir valley. Thus a Bamboo spreads tropically and subtropically in India and all through the world. Bamboo as a tree demonstrates, strength and tenacity. Surviving droughts, wars, climatic changes …from Himalayas to Andhra the bamboo survives ..strengthening and expanding sanguinely ….. cheerfully forever persistently … Bamboo grass & My Love for the Bamboo intensifie

The green cell is microscopic, but great. Great, from within. We all know that CHLOROPHYLL is the green colouring matter found in plants. It is enclosed in microscopic cell organelles called CHLOROPLASTS. CHLOROPLASTS are minute oval bodies surrounded by a double membrane & the interior contains densely crammed flattened thylakoids. And then… Photosynthesis is a process by which living plant cell containing CHLOROPHYLL , produce food substances: glucose and starch from carbon dioxide & water by using light energy sunlight. Oxygen is released as waste product in this process. Quran talks about the VERDENT GREEN in Sure’ Rehmaan. Green that is the basic Chloroplast. Source of energy and sustenance.. Then…how can Islam think Red ..? No, It does not promote terrorism. It teaches us to appreciate nature, to respect it. Natural entities water, air that we breathe, the trees, the heat of the sun - the light from the sun: are signs of Allah .. Again & again Allah reminds us of

Hoping for more g reen this 2009...