Leaves, Home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Anthuriams, Home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Bi-colour.

White.

Lady Jay.

A White and a Pink.

Orchids, Home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Orchids at dawn, Home Garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

'The dew on the flowers,

Has come with the dawn ...'

Flowers, home garden, Kosgama, Sri Lanka.

In a home garden, Kosgama, Sri Lanka.

'Yaka mala' - 'Devil flower'

Orchid flower.

'Kochchi miris' - Really hot chillie pods.

A squirrel investigating, home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Two flowers, home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Flower and butterfly, Home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

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'Sri Lankan Palmfly' - 'Elymnias singhala'

Bee-hive, home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Newly formed comb in a frame.

The 'Queen bee' is near the tip of the finger and is larger.

Can you spot the Queen?

The whitish wax has been freshly built from the secretions of the workers. The yellow cells are filled with honey.

Bee-keeping is a wonderful hobby. We have been doing it for the last 25 years. The bees increase the yield in our coconut trees, they yield honey and they are a pleasure to watch working. They do not attack you unless they perceive a threat to the colony. Bee stings have therapeutic value in alleviating joint pains. Bees' honey is a medicine, preservative, wound dressing etc..

In a home garden at Kosgama, Sri Lanka.

Patterns on leaves in a home garden, Gampaha, Sri Lanka.

Flowers, Home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Scenes, home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Unrolling leaf of a 'Bird's nest' fern.

Predator on a rose.

Flowers, home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

'Kadapul mal' S, blooming in our home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

13th June 2013 - 2pm.

13th June 2013 - 5pm.

13th June 2013 - 7pm.

13th June 2013 - 9pm

This beautiful large flower blooms late after sunset. It has a sweet aroma when it opens. By morning it has totally wilted. Pious Buddhists in Sri Lanka await its opening to give it as a 'mal pooja' to an image of Lord Buddha