Today as I exfoliated with my Bath and Body Works Cucumber Melon scrub, it was symbolic of scrubing Hort Park out of my system. No more harvesting, no more sun and heat for me! C asked me today if I knew the weighing machine there was acting weird. I told her I didn't use it because all equipment there just malfunctions in the heat and she said "ya, even the humans are breaking down." I think she dislikes Hort Park as much as I do, or even more, since she's had conversations with me about how miserable the place makes us feel. Yup. It does.
Thinking back, I don't know how I survived. It must have been God's grace plus the help of many friends. J helping with the soil filling, D with the planting of
Scaevola taccada, SX with the water gathering (that's seriously like from up a mountain or something in a rural country) and data collections sometimes, Dad with the harvesting of
Scaevola (is it me or does this plant seem like a trouble maker?) and the many many prayers from everyone.
I don't know if I've posted these before but here are just some pics for your amusement
since I will never go there ever again and I know you won't get to know what I hell experienced either.
My study plot. Honestly a heat trapping concrete place with transparent heat amplifying shelter. Is this not a place for a heat-induced breakdown? The manual labourers who set up my transparents tanks had fainted before and they had to replace one tank because it broke as it fell. When I found this out in the beginning, I don't know why it wasn't indication enough that this was tougher than it looks.
A week's worth of root growth in
Belamcanda chinensis, my favourite plant to harvest. This root growth is what I'm there for.
Harvesting out a
B. chinensis plant. The roots are so long that I can't reach them sometimes and yes I know I look neither male or female. And after a while I realised that I should use gloves so this photo is just evidence of how I destroy my nails. This plant is nice to harvest because the roots are succulent and strong, doesn't break easily and its easy to pull out. Nice. They show excellent results too.
My
S. taccada plant that is so impossible to harvest. With dad's help I can only take out two plants in a day (when I take out 4
B. chinensis plants in half a day). This was a drought plant where the top soil is obviously drier than the inner layers of soil. The other three plants have been excavated, leaving this nice root cliff.
Now it's time for the last stretch of my FYP, poster printing in two weeks. I hope all this hard work pays off...
Anyway, not many people like seeing only plants so here are some memorable fauna.
Tiny earthworms in my
S. taccada tank. They amused me so. I found 46 in one tank alone, how cool is that? I accidentally brought three back to the lab with me, poor things.
Little Christmas present from God that took care of my mealybug problem. Yay.
Woodpecker! Too far away and I don't have the pro lenses or a DSLR hence the pixelated image. You must see these beauties in real life to appreciate them.
Sunbird feasting on the nectar of Ixora superpink.
Kingfisher.
I think this is a yellow vented Bulbul.
Three eagles.
Three. God loves me so.
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