It feels like it’s already here as it’s been quite hot lately. Our lignum vitae tree, also called the Tree of Life, is covered in periwinkle flowers and bees. It’s been awhile since we’ve seen this many bees. I’m hoping they’ll migrate over to the lilikoi flowers.
We’ve seen a few different types of bees on the flowers. I was able to get some nice shots of two different kinds. The second one is really small compared to the regular honeybee.
It’s nice to see all the bees, the tree is earning its name, the tree of life.
In other farm happenings, our last set of duck eggs hatched. Our white call duck was sitting on two eggs. Every day we’d check to see if they had progressed, and during our last check found one ducking that had hatched and one egg in the water. The mama was uninterested in her baby. At this age and size, if the mama doesn’t take care and keep her baby warm and cared for it won’t make it. The egg in the water wasn’t viable unfortunately. We took the other baby duck who was now a loner, and put it in our incubator and kept it in the house. It started to imprint on my husband and just quacked non stop until he would come by. We ended up putting a small stuffed animal in the incubator with it to keep it company. We checked the local farm store to see if they had any baby chicks with the intention of getting one to keep it company, but they had none. We then called our neighbor, and she had a recent hatch of baby chicks, and she graciously gave us two. At first we weren’t sure if they would like each other, but it didn’t take too long until we could see they would okay together.
The chicks are just the perfect size, and as you can see they’re buddies.
Our dragon fruits are starting to flower. We have two different varieties, one that’s white inside and one that’s dark purple/pink inside. They taste pretty much the same, although I find the white a little sweeter, and my husband finds the purple one a little sweeter. Right now the purple ones are starting to flower, although we see a few white flowers coming up too. The flowers are pretty spectacular.
You can tell the purple dragon fruit because the leaves surrounding the flower have a purple tinge on the ends like most of the buds above. The flowers at the top have no purple on the edge so the insides will be white and the one in the middle has some purple. Last season we didn’t have too many fruit although we did have a lot of flowers. Hopefully most of the flowers will pollinate and we’ll get a nice batch of dragon fruit this time around. Dragon fruit is one the fruits we sell.
Today we had a chance to get out on the boat for a bit. The water was so calm it was like a lake. We didn’t catch anything trolling, but my husband jumped in and speared some kole we’ll fry up for dinner. We ended the day with a jump in the pool when we got home. It was a pretty good weekend.
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