This time I was quiet! As winters have set in plants are
growing yet there is a lack of colour , except for few reds and yellows. So
Surprise! Husband got some flowering baby saplings, fresh ones, unexpectedly!
Shevanthi, Sada phuli Periwinkle( we lost a beautiful large one after rains...)
and carnations. All with a red alert !
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| Unexpected gifts |
I usually would avoid buying these as bird friends from heaven, sparrows,
pigeons and even rats eat the blooms and sometimes even gobble the whole
plants!
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| Carnations |
So while I had somehow controlled my obsession of buying plants
for a few weeks, this time was an awesome
surprise from the universe! Dried plants in containers are tough to use , have
to break the soil as it becomes hard in winters. As also I thought of continuing
with watering as many times unexpectedly the dried plants, if roots are alive, spring back to life! Yet the soil was quite
hard,
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| Water clogged soil |
Many people buy plants and keep them like that in containers and water them. This is very bad
for your plant health especially delicate flowering plants like carnations and
petunias. Why must you repot the new saplings from plastic bags-
1) The plastic bags are small, stunt the growth of your
plants
2) The plastic bags have holes but may clog sometimes killing
your plant.
3) difficult to water plants as the mouth of plastic bags
are small.
4) many times there is no soil! So limited growth of your
plants, and may also not flower.
5) Plants usually after few days die off in plastic bags.
There is no feeling of safety and security for them in your space.
It is Important to repot the new saplings in pots and containers.
Choose one size larger for planting new saplings, as they get lost in very large
containers. Take care to avoid damage to
roots while transplanting. Also see that there may be a very soft delicate
small root ball, the rest is just peat , take care of this.
The important part was how to save these from becoming meals
of birds, yet still keeping fingers crossed each day! I do not like to put them
in mesh , feels like a cage! and they do find ways, tried last year, plastic
wire mesh, tough one, yet they found ways from below the container! and from
the holes they plant leaves were pulled out!
Practical tips for saving flowering plants from getting eaten
by birds-
1) Feed your birds! Yes everyday for them , yet we have to be careful,
especially pigeons.
2) keep these prone for feed plants away from where birds come
frequently.
3) Found this helpful- plant them under large bushy trees.
Yes they receive less sunlight sometimes but better than the fear of being
killed!
4) I had Chinese roses on window sill , as pigeons completely
remove these! but the leaves were droopy and so planted some stems, cuttings under
other plants and they have become healthy,
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| Chinese rose stems |
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| Chinese rose stems growing under large plant |
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| Periwinkle |
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| Fat Boy plant |
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| Transplanting saplings Shevanthi |
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| Hard rock! soil in dried containers |
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| Brahma kamal long leaves of hope |
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| Magical Sky from my little space under the sun |
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| Sada phuli |
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| Shevanthi Chrysanthemums |
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| Plastic bags new saplings |
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| Poinsettia plants |
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| Two new ones Periwinkle Carnations |
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| Goodluck Shevanti |
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| Glowing golden Sky |
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| Snow queen |
5) Water carefully these new saplings. Most important art, yet I am to learn more refined control! Any experienced gardener would say, always has tough time watering plants ,each one different needs! Keep them together , same needs container plants.
Hope this helps!
meanwhile another beautiful attraction for plant lovers, Vaikunth flower show, from Piramal residency, Old Mumbai-Agra road, Bayer India Road. Ram Maruti Nagar , Balkum,Thane.400607, Maharashtra <India.
10, 11 and 17, 18th of December 2016. don't forget to visit! get your invites!
for passes register at piramalvaikunth.comflowershow
Blue Gold-Indigo the Flower of freedom.will Insha Allah share the happiness in my next post!
All the Best from Rizwana!
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