Plants of Guimaras Island

Make Me a Song in Nature's Garden 

Dr Abe V Rotor

Make me a song, each flower a tune, each tune a melody,

in the stillness of the sea in calm or laughter in its tide;

make me a song among the flowers that bring in the rainbow,

the cadence of the rising sun, the flutter of the butterfly, 

make me a song in the shadows of the mangrove, its mirror

of heaven, dropping confetti and making ripples now and then,

make me a song of the mists that gather into dewdrops,

of clouds coming down as shower or fog that shrouds like veil

the landscape, in gentle transformation of another day - 

and another, ad infinitum in the march of time - 

and I, I am but a passerby, yet brevity is the essence of all.

 

Red kalachuchi (Plumera rubra)

 

Corazon de Maria (Caladium bicolor), Fancy caladium (Caladium humboltii) 

 Euphorbia (Euphorbia splendens); Pandakaking tsina (Ervatamia divaricata)

 

 Water plant (Philodendron hastatum);  Tiger hemp (Sanziviera zeylanica)

  

 Fire tree (Delonix regia)

 

Mayana (Coleus blumei); Daisy (Gerbera jamesonii)

 

Doña Trining (white) - Mussaenda philippica; 

Doña Aurora (Mussaenda philippica var aurorarae)

 

 Lantana (Lantana camara)

Yellow  gummamela (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis); Red gummamela (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis)

 Variegated gummamela (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis); Gummamela (Hibiscus schizopetalus)

Lobsterclaw (Heliconia acuminata); Garden asparagus (Asparagus officinales)

 

Anahaw (Livistonia acuminata); Powderpuff lily (Haemanthus multiflorus)

Beach hymenocallis (Hymenocallis litoralis) / Spider lily (Crinum asiaticum)

Croton (Codiaeum variegatum)

 

Ripe fruits of pandakaki (Tabernamontana pandakaki)

Close up of intertwined roots and vines of liana.