kampung gardening

Life in a kampung means plenty of resources as long as one is resourceful! And being a resourceful person that I am, I collect the plants for my garden at home in places like abandoned houseyards, in the riparian forests as well as those wayside trees.

This picture shows me carrying a gunny sack filled with treasures from the wild!

That's me again collecting some stem cuttings of rangoon creeper in an old homegarden in 2002, overgrown by all sorts of lovely plants. note the climbing (!) rangoon creeper on the right, almost to the top of this house. this house must have been a really gorgeous building when the owners were there, just look at the careful finish of the facade. The corrugated iron/zinc roofing was likely a new addition then, perhaps 30-40 years ago those metalic sheets were shining during hot days, reflecting the sunrays. Our own house just had a change of those roofs a couple of years ago after about 30 odd years. Very durable stuff, but attap rumbia would have been nice.