What a great relief.
We saw a dead little squirrel in the road to our house so I stopped to take it out of the road. my wife was in tears, as she thought it was the squirrel that visited our house.
But look who popped up later to eat a granadilla that we leave in the front garden for the squirrels.
Smiles and happiness all round and you can see the suckled tits on her body, which means that she has babies to feed.
I never knew that granadillas had so many health benefits until we Googled them and it was a great surprise. So, we have many here and my wife processes them in the kitchen. She has buckets full of pulp and bottles filled with juice and now I have gotten used to drinking ice cold granadilla juice on the very hot days. She has also made some granadilla jam and fruit rolls. Soon we will have granadilla and cream fridge tart and granadilla cakes. She is also sure to come up with granadilla muffins and biscuits. So the squirrel is happy and we are happy.
Here below, you can see the granadillas that we leave out in the sun for the squirrel. She waits until they turn yellow in the sun before she eats them. Pardon the two Cape Dwarf Geckos on the wall.
Oh yes, she knows where I am behind the window with the camera, so she popped in behind the trellis to eat her granadilla.
One final photo and then I left her in peace.
We have two fences of granadilla bushes at the front of our house and my wife collects the dropped granadillas every day. I will ask her to share one of her granadilla recipes on hive soon.
Now for some other interesting stuff.
Any takers that can tell me what the name of this succulent plant with the pink flowers is? @ewkaw @nikv do you know them ladies?
There was two of them and we would love to get some for our small front garden.
And finally, I have these interesting tree nuts to show you.
The thick outer casing of the nut cracks open to reveal a beautiful flower seed.
Look how thick that nut shell is.
We collected a variety of the nut seeds below the tree.
Here is the dark green nut tree in the middle of the photo.
And to end the photos, just a lovely view of a palm tree in the wind with a mountain backdrop.
A bit of an unusual post, as I decided to share something different with all of you, but the core of the beauty of nature is also evident in here.
There are always many wonders to be found and I have the habit of looking out for the unusual beauties.
Regarding the squirrel, for those of you that do not know, at our old house that we moved from 7 months ago, we had a big family of squirrels there and they lived in our garden. The old garden was much bigger than the small garden that we have at this new home. Now we hope that the mom squirrel that is feeding here now, will soon bring her babies to also come and eat here.
We laid some peanuts out for her, but for some reason she didn't touch them, as she prefers the granadillas. Maybe she will take to the peanuts when winter arrives, as then there will be no granadillas.
We can only try. We have collected some pine cones for her and will start collecting acorns soon.
I hope that you have enjoyed the story and the pictures.
Photos taken by Zac Smith-All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon Powershot SX70HS Bridge camera.
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Happy to hear she's Fine and indeed when you see Animal or pet you actually ever interacted died.. that hurts.
That's a Relief for your wife and you... Seems like squirrel !LUV to visit your place and get good enough food for babies to feed.
Such a Lovely story this is and those pictures as well.
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A terrible hurt indeed and our little dog died a few months ago after 17 years with us. We are still not over the pain.
Fortunately we know how to work with the squirrels and now our hope is that she will come here with her babies.
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So sorry to hear about it and that happened. I know how it feels.
I hope so.
Thanks for sharing it! Hope you had a wonderful weekend and wish you Great week ahead.
Thank you and I know that you do.
I think that we will get lucky with the squirrels again.
Hope that your week will also be good.
Happy to hear that little squirrel is fine. Also, looking forward to see the baby squirrels soon!
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We also hope that she will arrive with her babies in tow.
Lady squirrel looks very happy snacking on the granadilla nice to know you have started attracting wildlife back into your garden, size does not matter!
Your succulent looks like the Black Rose Tree or similar Aeonium Zwartkop a really gorgeous rosette on a succulent. Perhaps these links will guide you closer to what you looking at or for !LOLZ
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Oh yes, thank you and we have high hopes of attracting the squirrels once again. I will watch for her every afternoon.
Thank you for the links Lady Joan and I think that it is definitely of the Aeonium family. We will have to go and look at the garden center over here. !LOLZ
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It is a gorgeous succulent bloom, you in the right conditions to plant one!
Any wildlife is wonderful to have visiting the garden!
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O yeah, we will definitely get some of them.
We miss our old garden with its tribes of squirrels, but maybe the same will happen here.
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Perhaps take a cutting and see if you able to grow from a slip, many succulents easy to grow.
Old garden had large trees which give the small animals places to hide or use as their highways, low hedging should do similar.
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Haven't had the time to go back there yet, but yes, I will indeed ask if I can take some cuttings.
Yep and they loved the trees. We are close to the river and there are large trees on the river banks. I know that there are many animals living in those trees and our hedges are all very high. I saw two sunbirds here this morning, but they disappeared into the granadilla plants before I could get them on my camera.
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I thick undergrowth under hedges you may have hedgehogs which could be fun to see again.
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Unfortunately no thick undergrowth yet, as we have 3 full granadilla panels like this one at the front. See how quickly a sunbird can disappear into this lot.
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Thick like my Jasmin hanging over the wall, birds dive in you never see them just hear their calls. Guavadilla is growing well, too high up into other plants, only the monkeys get them!
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Too many monkeys to be honest, troops running through with many babies once again, not enough food around for them so more often than not what I plant they tend to get.
!LUV their little ones, so nosy to know who you are!
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Hahaha, touch wood that we don't have a monkey problem and only some baboon trouble occasionally in the communities around Table Mountain.
And yes, the babies are fun to watch.
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This is Aeonium :) Could be arboreum. And these are not flowers, but leaves in heir dormant state. They will normally close the rosettes during the summer when there is less rain an more heat and the larger bottom leaves will dry and fall.
In the growing season (winter for me) they open and grow more new leaves. They can be more green, or almost black, depends on the condition and how much sun they get.
The flowers are tiny yellow stars and will grow from the center of the rosette.
Get it if you can. It's a cool plant :) They grow easily from a cutting.
Thank you so much for the information and I will go and ask if I can take some cuttings.
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