Nobody’s enjoying COVID-19, no. Not the impact on healthcare systems, not the disease itself, not the lockdowns. On the bright side, I suppose there is a little amusement to be found in the curious baking frenzies enough to wipe out flour at supermarkets, or the hordes of people at parks who have dissociated from their office chairs to fulfil 5-year-old new year’s resolutions on exercise.
But of course, the bugs and plants are having a blast. Here in Singapore at least, grass-cutting has been suspended till what we call the “circuit breaker” is over. Our garden city is as in need of a haircut as the guy next door, and the next, and the next.
I haven’t been able to visit parks as often as I’d like, but in brief moments I’ve managed to photograph some pretty little grasses and weeds and trees flaunting their long-awaited freedom. The abundance of host and food plants has also led to the emergence of a larger than usual number of butterflies, to my delight.
As it so happens, today marks the end of the circuit breaker, and life resumes as per the new normal. Goodbye to wanton overgrowth for now; I’ll let the pictures speak of these strange times.
Weeds doing all the socialising on our behalf
Things you never knew could flower have started to flower
Flocks of fluffballs
Mile-a-minute vine doing the Groot thing
Groundcover covering more ground than usual
Little Ironweed looking good
Creeping Cucumber taking over the fence
A new player
Grass <- wheat, dinosaur <- chicken
Coral Vine, Maiden’s Jealousy, and Bengal Trumpet cohabiting better than some families have been for the past 2 months
I got you covered
Whiteweed taller than ever
Letting itself go sideways
Thanks circuit breaker, it wasn’t all bad after all
Herbal Ramble 