Plants of Ecuador-Gardens of Sangolqui-Basil

The collection would not be complete without basil! Here is our bountiful crop and it only got larger

Plants of Ecuador-Gardens of Sangolqui

Tomate de arbol(tree tomato) trees growing in the school garden. These are way to close together and should have been further apart. The fruit can be used to create a great drink(with lots of sugar) or eaten on its own. Next year's students are lucky!

Plants of Ecuador-Gardens of Sangolqui

Plants of Ecuador-Gardens of Sangolqui

Another of the trees out front of our school

Plants of Ecuador-Gardens of Sangolqui

Plants of Ecuador-Gardens of Sangolqui

The town centrepiece in a small town outside of Cuenca. It reminded me of the town structure in many similar towns in Brazil

Plants of Ecuador-Gardens of Sangolqui

This purple flower was growing out of the trunk of a palm tree growing at our school

Plants of Ecuador-Gardens of Sangolqui

A nice view from the top

Plants of Ecuador-Gardens of Sangolqui

Another surprise from the garden. I planted these just before leaving for the placement and got quite a shock on return!

Plants of Ecuador-Gardens of Sangolqui

A beautiful habiscus flower from my home in Sangolqui

Plants of Ecuador-Gardens of Sangolqui

While creating the garden a few random bulbs were found lying around in the soil. I thought nothing of it until in the second half of the program these amazing flowers appeared out of nowhere.

Plants of Ecuador

What follows is a bunch of pictures I took of different flowers while in Ecuador. I took many more but these are the best. Next time I'll definitely go with a digital with some sort of built in flash. So many pictures were "lost" trying to photograph under thick jungle cover with not enough light. Out in the open the sun was so strong a lot of pictures got washed out.

I've tried to organize these pictures in some way in order to give them a better context. The first batch are from gardens in and around Sangolqui. There are then species from the Ecuadorian Sierra and finally a few of my photos that survived from the Amazon.

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