The various fruits in our garden

Pictures of some of the various fruits in our garden;

The IDC has finished today, freeing me up a bit and giving me more time to write in the blog again and here's some pix that I was planning on showing for a little while already.

All year long we have various fruits 'in season' in our garden and I'd like to share some pictures of these fruits, since some of them are very rare or even unknown to some of the non Asian readers of my blog. I know that I didn't know some of them when I came to Thailand and it's neighbours for the first couple of times.


No article about Koh Samui would be complete, if one talks about fruit, if coconuts wouldn't be mentioned. Coconuts used to be the main source of income for Samui and it's inhabitants before the tourist industry came up and Samui was more or less responsible for keeping all of Thailand supplied with coconuts.
Sure enough, our garden has plenty of coconut trees, this is just one of them. The Thai word for coconut is 'Maplau'.

Here's a picture of probably a very familiar sight, a banana tree, well, at least the banana's will be familiar. We have a few of them throughout our garden and let me tell you, those trees grow like there's no tomorrow, not that necessarily have banana fruit all the time, but the trees do grow very hard!

The Thai word for banana is 'Klu-ay'.

Here's a picture of something a little bit more exotic, a papaya tree (Thai word 'Malako') with papaya fruit. Again, we have a few of these as well in our garden.

In this picture it becomes even more exotic, here we can see Jack fruit or 'Ka-noen' in Thai.

Also very common is mango, here's a picture of our biggest mango tree. They're not in season right now but we have a few of these trees in various sizes and also some of them have different mango's.. The Thai word for mango is 'Ma-muang'.

Here are two 'Shom-poo' trees next to each other, again, not in season right now but very lovely fruit. Not too sure what their name in English is.

Here's a picture of a Guava fruit, in blossoming. In Thai they're called 'Farang', the same name the Thais call us Westerners. The plastic bag is to protect the fruit from small flies and the like.

The last two pictures are just shots from some of the flowers we have in our garden. At the moment, these are the only two blossoming right now.

Hope you enjoyed the pictures, I surely enjoyed posting them and talking a bit about them, it has been a while.

Stay tuned and let me know if you have any questions regarding Samui or Thailand.

Camille