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Rowena's Purple Cottage: this property was given to us by my loving, generous and thoughtful parents, Leon and Angie. This beautiful piece of land is lush with greenery and colour of the rainbow from the different species of fruit trees, shrubs and flowers. At the far end corner, there's a pretty tiny cottage painted in purple, my favourite colour. Me and Rob feel so much at peace whenever we're here, surrounded by the beauty and wonder of God's creation. The tranquility is very relaxing. The fresh air is quite refreshing. It's a very idyllic place. We really love it here. We're so lucky and blessed to be gifted with this property.
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​Fruits and Vegetables at Rowena's Purple Cottage

“Kung may itinanim, may aanihin. (If you plant, you will harvest.)"
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Atis or Custard Apple
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Avocado
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Banana or Plantain
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Bugnay or Currant Tree
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Calamansi or Calamondin
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Cassava
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Chestnut
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Chico or Sapodilla
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Coconut
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Dayap or Key Lime
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Dragonfruit
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Guava
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Guyabano or Soursop
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Jackfruit
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Papaya
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Pineapple
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Pomelo
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Santol or Cotton Fruit
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Kasoy or Cashew
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Red and Green Macopa
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Red and White Sweet Potato

Flowers at Rowena's Purple Cottage

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Dessert Rose
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Gumamela or Hibiscus
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Magnolia
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Makahiya or Sensitive Plant
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Periwinkle
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Sunflower
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Yellowbell
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Zinnia

Fungi at Rowena's Purple Cottage

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Birds seen and photograph at Rowena's Purple Cottage

There are over 530 bird species found in the Philippines Hotspot; about 185 of these are endemic (35 percent) and over 60 are threatened.
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Blue-tailed Bee-eater
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Olive-backed Sunbird
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Yellow-vented Bulbul
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Philippine Pied Fantail
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Long-tailed Shrike
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Scaly-breasted Munia
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Chestnut Munia

Butterflies seen and photograph at Rowena's Purple Cottage

352 butterfly species are endemic to the Philippines. About 70 percent of the Philippines’ nearly 21,000 recorded insect species are found only in the country. In addition about one-third of the 915 butterflies found here are endemic to the country.

​One of the largest butterflies in the world and the largest in the Philippines, is Magellan Birdwing Troides magellanus. This butterfly is named after the explorer Ferdinand Magellan who was killed in the Philippines in 1521.


Endemic to the Philippines, the species Appias phoebe is rare and found only in high elevations, according to the article published on German entomological journal NEVA.
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Grey Pansy
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Blue Moon, Great Eggfly or Common Eggfly
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Common Leopard or Spotted Rustic 
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Streaked Baron
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Lime Swallowtail
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Scarlet Mormon
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Long-tailed Blue 
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Aeromachus plumbeola

Moths ​seen and photograph at Rowena's Purple Cottage

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Silver-striped Hawk Moth
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Nyctemera coleta
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Mocis Moth
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Beet Webworm Moth or Hawaiian Beet Webworm

Damselflies ​seen and photograph at Rowena's Purple Cottage

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Dragonflies ​seen and photograph at Rowena's Purple Cottage

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Bees and Wasps ​seen and photograph at Rowena's Purple Cottage

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Carpenter Bee
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Blue Flower Wasp

Amphibians ​seen and photograph at Rowena's Purple Cottage

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Bats ​seen and photograph at Rowena's Purple Cottage

In the Philippines, there are 79 listed bat species , of which 38 are endemic and at least 12 are threatened, according to the country's red list. Of the total bat species in the Philippines, 26 are from the Pteropodidae family known as fruit bats or flying foxes; 17 of these are endemic to the country.
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Caterpillars ​seen and photograph at Rowena's Purple Cottage

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Crickets and Grasshoppers ​seen and photograph at Rowena's Purple Cottage

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Reptiles ​seen and photograph at Rowena's Purple Cottage

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Common Sun Skink
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Asian House Gecko

Flora and Fauna of Rowena's Purple Cottage

Fruits and Vegetables:
  1. Atis or Custard Apple
  2. Avocado
  3. Banana or Plantain
  4. Bugnay or Currant Tree
  5. Calamansi or Calamondin
  6. Cassava
  7. Cherimoya
  8. Chesa
  9. Chestnut
  10. Chico or Sapodilla
  11. Coconut
  12. Dayap or Key Lime
  13. Dragonfruit
  14. Duhat of Java Plum
  15. Guava
  16. Guyabano or Soursop
  17. Jackfruit
  18. Kamias or Bilimbi
  19. Kasoy or Cashew
  20. Lemon
  21. Macopa (red and green) or Wax Apple
  22. ​Malunggay or Moringa or Miracle Vegetable
  23. Mango (carabao and indian)
  24. Narra
  25. Papaya
  26. Pineapple
  27. Pomelo
  28. Rambutan
  29. Santol or Cotton Fruit
  30. Star Apple
  31. Sweet Corn
  32. Sweet Potato
  33. Tamarind
  34. Zapote
  35. Others...

Flowers:
  1. Anthurium
  2. Birds of Paradise
  3. Bougainvillea
  4. Bromeliads
  5. ​Chillies
  6. Cosmos
  7. Dama de Noche
  8. Desert Rose
  9. Gumamela
  10. Jasmine
  11. Kalachuchi
  12. Magnolia (my favourite)
  13. Makahiya (Mimosa pudica)
  14. Marigold
  15. Oregano
  16. Orkra or Ladies' Fingers
  17. Patola, silk squash or ribbed loofah or sponge gourd
  18. Periwinkle
  19. Sampaguita
  20. Santan
  21. Yellow Bell
  22. Zinnia
  23. Others...​

​Fungi:
  1. Auricularia asiatica
  2. Dacryopinax spathularia
  3. Earliella scabrosa
  4. Polyporus melanopus
  5. Hexagonia tenuis
  6. Schizophyllum commune​

Ants:
  1. Black House Ant
  2. Little Black Ant
  3. Pavement Ant
  4. Others...

Amphibians:
  1. Cane Toad
  2. Chinese Edible Frog
  3. Common Southeast Asian Frog
  4. Pond Frog
  5. Others...

Bats:
  1. Pygmy Fruit Bat
  2. Haplonycteris fischeri​
  3. Others...​​​​

Crickets:
  1. Euconocephalus Katydids
  2. Genus Phaneroptera
  3. Lesser Meadow Katydids
  4. Melicodes tenebrosa
  5. Others...

Grasshoppers:
  1. Rice Grasshopper
  2. Short-winged Rice Grasshopper
  3. Slender Green-winged Grasshopper
  4. Others...

Reptiles:
  1. Asian House Gecko
  2. Common Four Clawed Gecko
  3. Common Sun Skink
  4. Others...

Spiders:
  1. Asian Hermit Spider
  2. Brown Sailor Spider
  3. Grass Cross Spider
  4. Hawaiian Garden Spider
  5. Lawn Wolf Spider
  6. Others...
Birds:
  1. Asian Glossy Starling
  2. Barn Swallow
  3. Blue-tailed Bee-eater
  4. Brown Shrike
  5. Chestnut Munia
  6. Lesser Coucal
  7. Long-tailed Shrike
  8. Rufous Coucal
  9. Olive-backed Sunbird
  10. Pacific Swallow
  11. Philippine Coucal
  12. Pied Fantail
  13. Plaintive Cuckoo
  14. Scaly-breasted Munia
  15. ​Sparrow
  16. Yellow-vented Bulbul
  17. Zebra Dove
  18. Others...

Butterflies:
  1. ​Autumn Leaf
  2. Bamboo Tree-brown
  3. Blue Glassy Tiger
  4. Blue Moon, Great Eggfly or Common Eggfly
  5. Brown Pansy
  6. Common Barron
  7. Common Bushbrown
  8. Common Dartlet
  9. Common Evening Brown
  10. Common Leopard or Spotted Rustic 
  11. Common Mormon
  12. Common Three-ring
  13. Dark Grass Blue
  14. Emerald Swallowtail
  15. Grey Pansy
  16. Lemon Emigrant
  17. Lime Swallowtail
  18. Long-tailed Blue
  19. Luzon Grass Dart
  20. Malay Lacewing
  21. Mottled Emigrant
  22. Orange Emigrant
  23. Oriental Palm Bob or Indian Palm Bob
  24. Pale Grass Blue
  25. Palm King
  26. Pink Rose
  27. Plain Palm Dart
  28. Psyche
  29. Red Helen
  30. Rice Swift or Formosan Swift
  31. Rounded Banana Skipper
  32. Scarlet Mormon
  33. Scarlet Swallowtail
  34. Scalloped Grass Yellow
  35. Small Banded Swift
  36. ​Streaked Baron
  37. Striped Albatross​
  38. Tailed Green Jay or Green-spotted Triangle
  39. Three-spot Grass Yellow
  40. ​Wizard
  41. Yellow Band Dart
  42. Others...

​Moths:
  1. Erebid Moth
  2. Beet Webworm Moth or Hawaiian Beet Webworm
  3. Mango Hawk Moth
  4. Metalmark Moth
  5. Mocis Moth
  6. Nyctemera coleta
  7. Silver-striped Hawk Moth
  8. Snouted Tiger Moth
  9. Sugarcane Looper
  10. Wasp Moth
  11. Others...​

​Damselflies:
  1. Blue-ringed Dancer
  2. Blue-tailed Damselfly
  3. Blue Midget
  4. Blue Ringtail
  5. Common Bluetail
  6. Large Red Damselfly​
  7. Narrow-winged Damselfly
  8. Red-eyed Damselfly
  9. Orange-tailed Marsh Dart
  10. Vivid Dancer
  11. Others...

Dragonflies:
  1. Asian Blood Tail
  2. Blue Dasher
  3. Chalky Percher
  4. Common Green Darner
  5. Crimson-tailed Marsh Hawk
  6. Giant Petaltail
  7. Green Skimmer
  8. Indonesian Red-winged 
  9. Scarlet Skimmer
  10. Wandering Glider
  11. Others...​​

​​Bees:
  1. Andrenidae
  2. Apidae
  3. Blue Banded Bee
  4. Bumblebee
  5. Carpenter Bee
  6. Honeybee
  7. Leaf-cutter Bee
  8. Others...

​​Wasps:
  1. Blue Flower Wasp
  2. Others...
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The Philippines officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelago country in Southeast Asia. It is situated in the western Pacific Ocean and consists of around 7,641 islands that are broadly categorized under three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. The Philippines is bounded by the South China Sea to the west, the Philippine Sea to the east, and the Celebes Sea to the southwest. The Philippines covers an area of 300,000 km2 (120,000 sq mi) and, as of 2021, it had a population of around 109 million people, making it the world's thirteenth-most populous country. The Philippines has diverse ethnicities and cultures throughout its islands. Manila is the country's capital, while the largest city is Quezon City; both lie within the urban area of Metro Manila.

Nueva Vizcaya, officially the Province of Nueva Vizcaya (Ilocano: Probinsia ti Nueva Vizcaya; Gaddang: Probinsia na Nueva Vizcaya; Tagalog: Lalawigan ng Nueva Vizcaya), is a landlocked province in the Philippines located in the Cagayan Valley region in Luzon. Its capital is Bayombong. It is bordered by Benguet to the west, Ifugao to the north, Isabela to the northeast, Quirino to the east, Aurora to the southeast, Nueva Ecija to the south, and Pangasinan to the southwest. Quirino province was created from Nueva Vizcaya in 1966.

The name Nueva Vizcaya is derived from the name of the province of Biscay (called Vizcaya in Spanish, Bizkaia in Basque) during the Spanish colonial period. This can be seen in the right part of the seal, a representation of the heraldic of Vizcaya in Spain.

Surrounded by North Luzon's three large mountain ranges, Nueva Vizcaya is generally mountainous, varying from steep mountains to rolling hills, with some valleys and plains. It is bordered on the west by the Cordillera mountains, on the east by the Sierra Madre mountains, and on the south by the Caraballo Mountains. The province (and the entire Cagayan Valley) are separated from the Central Luzon plains by the Caraballo Mountains.

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