Besides many other things, what makes Thailand a nice place to live is the weather. What wakes you up in the morning, every day, the sun shining through the window. Sure you have rainy days but the rain is very seldom in the morning and usually dos not last for very long.

And a sunny warm climate is ideal for flowers, which makes me wonder, sometimes, why I do not see more flowers in Thailand, and in Bangkok. It is not like it is really hard work to grow them and to maintain them. And it sure would make Bangkok look far better if flowers were more the rule than the exception. Go to Singapore and see what they did there with a similar climate. And I’m sure you’ll agree with me.

Anyway, I for one maintain quite a few flowers and trees where I live in downtown Bangkok and just love it. Especially the orchids that are so “easy” to grow in Thailand that it would be a shame not to grow any in your garden.

This one bloomed recently and does not last very long. Interesting orchid. Reminds me of the Men In Black movie with some sort of little violet alien coming out of a yellow alien

Here is another one with a small “dog” jumping out of the orchid

And the more common one, that you can buy in any supermaket for quite a cheap price. One of the main export of Thailand also.

And I also have white flowers in the garden and they like the rain

And the ones I actually like most are tiny violet ones in a sea of green leaves

Flowers are nice but we should not forget the trees, papaya trees, mango trees, banana trees and well, coconut trees, the only tree I have in the garden in Bangkok. The garden is just too small to accommodate more than one big tree.

And here it is, with its coconuts load, from a distance.

And a close-up of the coconuts that we hope, will fall soon…