Gardening-Simplified

Big Mogra flower buds Mogra flower plant is one of the best fragrant plants that are so worth growing for their heavenly fragrance. What more the summers are never the same with mogra plants, once you grow them you will never look at other  plants. The flowers are so big, button shaped with so many petals and they grow in bunches. The joy begins when they give out buds,we have huge buds as the plant has grown quite healthy and after trimmings they give out a spurt of healthy blooms. Healthy Mogra Plant with buds Many emails come everyday asking for flowering tips and that their mogra plants do not give flowers. The main reason may be the genes as I always say buy mogra plants with a few buds on them so that you know the plant is fertile. My plant ahs a history and I really feel so blessed that I took the pains to remove physically the pests, red mealy bugs that had got attached to its roots and the plant was on verge of dying ten years back. And what more today it has gr...

Cat's tail Plant Suffering from Ashthma is very stressful and with the attacks increasing due to pollution and internet radiation exposures it would be great to grow some green plants to help purify your space. Here a bit of caution in choosing plants helps a lot. Yes it is true that plants are great, they refresh the space, environment and helps improve feng shui energy but there are a few that can do more damage to your health than help out and need to be grown with care. Sharing here one such plant that looks so beautiful with its magenta, pinkish red furry blooms. The Cat's tail plant, Chenille plant, Acalypha hispida, a flowering shrub. Also known as Philippines Medusa, red hot cat's tail,  fox tail, the plant grows very fats and can go in feets even in containers. Care has to be taken as parts of this plant are poisonous. The female plant bears pistillate flowers looking pinkish, purple, reddish maroon. Flowers grow in clusters at tip of stems. Red Furry Lon...

Bleeding Hearts Vine Happy Flowers Growing in Circular Pattern  When in doubt take a walk!The hot summers bring children and grown ups alike to our complex garden, and there is immense happiness and chatter for evenings till late night. The evening walks , apart from my terrace garden is another inspirational time for me as flowers are different and plants are growing in soil, so this again gives me different insights to gardening. What a beautiful circular growth of flowers, the original view is mesmerizing and unique. Bleeding hearts vine has flourished into Awesum blooms. All growing in a pattern, just bringing in the thought that there is harmony and discipline in nature. Flowers at the end tips of the stems ,each have a circular ball effect. Fluffy flowers , just like a creative unique ball. Smooth to touch and are very beautiful with their tiny red flowers in bracts of off white leaves. We have the bright red flowers bleeding hearts vine that has contrasting white brac...

Florescent Pink Bougainvilleas, vibrant pink, peachy orange, yellow, white, lilac and even shaded variety, Summers are the best time and we see a lot of these Awesum Bougainvillea blooms every where on the roads. Best part is they require less care and grow even in the driest soils. Pink Bougainvillea As you observe the flowers, they are so thin, papery thin and light feathery, hardly  any weight, but they can stand even the strongest of winds! this is a really strange but true fact in nature, that even when you touch it by hand the flowers fall off and when there are strong winds yet they remain on the plant. . Bougainvillea flowers  They are often chosen for their showy flowers, unique, and also less care plants. next time you think of adding these plants to your space consider these points, never keep/grow  bougainvilleas in these 3 places- 1) When you have small children at home, and when there are curious mischievous pets!  cats and dogs at home. Th...

Fresh bloomed Anant flower After two days Anant flower on Plant The fragrance is very distinct and you can smell it even from a distance when the cool breeze sets during nights in summers. the heavenly fragrance, is Awesum, really worth, growing.  Anant flower bud  Anant ,  White Anant fragrant flower on plant Gardenia Plants, is a fragrant flowering plant which gives out beautiful white flowers ,especially in summers when the days are hot the flowers begin blooming in the late evenings and are fully open during sunset.  Like Juhi, jasmine and Mogra , that make summers Awesum, even Gardenias are beautiful bushes  that can grow into huge trees .    Usually our society garden plant goes barren as soon as the blooms come up, in the name of religion to offer in temples. Even on explaining to them that flowers remain on the plant for a longer time, and when plucked they die off in a day, yet... Heavenly Anant flower Anant...

With so many emails and photographs sent to inquire about serious conditions in plant health, writing this post to give practical tips during summers ,especially really hot summers! and I really wish your plants are saved, take extra care of your plants that are growing in containers and are under the sun, with these tips and of course with loads of love! 1) Try to cover up the sides or top of the plants with cool green cloth, this is what we did, and it helped conserve some humidity in container plants.Green cloth is the cheapest and works wonders to lower atmospheric temperatures.This is seen in many gardens and plant nurseries. 2) water regularly and carefully. In summers never skip watering as till the end of the day plants without water droop. Chinese Bamboo in our garden on a sunny day 3) Increase the quantity of water. See that the whole container gets enough water till base. Most times with little water only the top layer  of soil gets wet and the roots go dry, so ...

Baby soft pink Ixora flowers  Added a new plant with baby soft pink coloured blooms, Ixora! we had since years the peachy pink colored, this one is the toughest and survives for many years, Saw this huge tree at the Zoo ,to visit the penguins! and WOW, Awestruck by its beauty! Huge Tree of Ixora at the Zoo All year round flowering,easiest growing plant with loads of flowers and comes in beautiful colours. Peachy Pink Ixora flowers, Toughest variety  The toughest are the orange pink blooming ones that last for years, other variety are a bit delicate, white ixora, Orange ixora Fully Loaded Ixora plant with flowers Buds on ixora plant Delicate pink Ixora flowers Tips for flowering in Ixora- From the variety of plants with so many years we did get one that was tough to flower. 1) there are non flowering types also that are tough to bloom. Buy the saplings with flowers on it. 2) Trimming helps a lot, they do grow like wild sometimes and we need to tr...

Yellow Mussaenda Tiny cute little yellow flowers, the Awesumness of nature, very unique, rare beauties! I thought this was a yellow Poinsettia plant and while I bought it for the tiny yellow beauties, they have since then given us so many blooms. Yellow flowering plants are difficult to find and I wanted the yellow. Since yellow is a cheerful colour in feng shui and very important for feng shui  of north sector of your garden. Yellow flowers search continued and while I luckily chanced upon a small growth under our car in the society compound and thought that this will die off after the rains or maybe thunder showers may wash it away , so I adopted it, and it has since then given so many, oh many yellow blooms. So much for yellow, Love it!Turnera ulmifolia, Yellow Alder, good herbal plant,(read on Google) Turnera ulmifolia Yellow Alder Rajnagandha Fragrant Tube rose blooms  Yellow Mussaenda Flowering Plant Yellow Mussaenda Flowering Plant Yellow Mus...