check out the bananas in our banana tree! adam planted this tree one year ago, and it's already taller than the house. it also dropped a second tree that's about half its height. obviously, the bananas are not ready to be eaten but hopefully soon! the flowers that fall out of the tree have these cool little sacs of nectar that ants and other insects drink. the flowers smell a little like jackfruit, actually, and the nectar tastes like a thin honey syrup.

i'm also attaching a picture of our burgeoning jackfruit tree, which adam planted a few weeks ago. (manju is lounging underneath!) we have no idea when/if we'll get some fruit, but keep your fingers crossed . . . we've gotten some small strawberries, too. their consistency is nice, but their flavour is sort of bland.