Garden Plants and Trees

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Some of the plants and trees that grew in our Bedok kampong house garden provided a lifelong memory for us. Harking back more than 50 years ago, besides the iconic Belimbing tree in the middle of our house courtyard and the flowering Bunga Santan and Japanese rose plants, we recall a Custard Apple tree that gave us fruit from time to time. In the early 70’s our paternal aunt and uncle would plant tapiocas and when ripen, they would remove the roots and our aunt would steam the tapioca for a delightful afternoon tea, dipped with sugar. The guava tree we had was memorable in a unique way in that it hardly bore any fruit in all the years we had lived there!

1969 - Us standing just in front of the tapioca plants

1970 - The Belimbing tree at the house

Custard Apples


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