Dans mon jardin...

Il ya des papayes bébé dans mon jardin, Quelle mignonne!

Look what I found in my garden, baby papayas? Well not quite but they are so adorable!

They really do look like papayas, don't they? But they're really small, just about 3cm.

But look what they can do...

They BLOOM!

Alright now, we have established that these cute little plants are not papayas, so what are they? Here it is.

I'm not sure of the English name but we, as in the older generation, call this Setawar. Lovely plant with thick waxy leaves. Quite hardy and easy to grow, all you need is a book. Yes, you heard me. A book.

This is a little experiment I use to do when I was like 7 years old. Ah the wonderful world of botany.

Let's call this project "The Growing Book Mark" shall we?

Get a book, the thicker the better.

Pluck a Setawar leaf.

Got it so far?

Choose a page, preferably somewhere in the middle of the book .

Insert the leaf like a book mark.

Then forget about it.

In about 7 days you'll get this...

Can you see life?

Wait, here's a better look ...

It's growing! Maybe it's me but seeing something so simple and intriguing like this always makes me smile^^

You can choose to leave it in to let it grow even more or plant it in a pot somewhere and wait for the baby papaya blooms to come. Don't think it happens very often though. Perhaps I was lucky?

P.S: If you noticed Setawar leaves, they grow leaves where mine grew roots too. but only when still attached to the mother plant. Perhaps I forced my leave to grow roots in search of water and nutrients?