Gardening-Simplified

Weeds are a blessing sometimes Rainy season brigs in a lot of colour to out garden, in fact, my little space under the sun, terrace garden is the best during rains!The overflowing love of many plants, they have grown really quite tall and needed a as I say,  "javed habib haircut"! Weeds are sometimes a blessing in disguise as they protect precious bulbs from rotting. Impatient self this time controlled to pluck them off, as they are protecting the bulbs indie the pot by absorbing the heavy downpour! Happiness comes in many forms for a gardener, There are always unexpected surprises during rains!this one is growing in the pot that was adopted, (the obsessed gardener) actually picked up from junk! so waiting to see what blooms come up, New surprise, unknown plant  Offices and corporate houses can now have such beautiful vertical gardens. clicked this in a private corporate sector office. What a beautiful way to bring in greens in the closed air conditioned environment,...

Allamanda flowers in rain  I LOVE RAINS! my little space looks green, fresh and fully loaded with multi colour blooms! Drooping roses, drooping Allamanda flowering stems and Awesum fragrant Kamini bush fully loaded! While the rains bring out some respite in the gardener , ME, I get a break from the daily care and watering of plants, there are also some losses, but waiting to see how the season progresses. A strange behavior, the Allamanda and the Fragrant jasmine, Juhi climbers are giving out tall lanky stems and at the tip of ends have bunches of blooms. No, I cant trim them and they are as if connecting ends of my terrace with lovely blooms!Fragrances are at top, with so many happy roses, heavy loaded plants but a bit sad as the roses with weight of heavy rain water are drooping but they look so happy and beautiful! The photographer in me gets great shots of flowers in rains!Actually every morning I am welcomed with some great attractive flowers and the mobile has given me g...

Hibiscus leaves burnt, terrible heat and stress, too high temperatures, thank God now its pouring! The Hibiscus plant has been quiet for some time and even on watering showed no signs of growth. Leaves burnt due to pre monsoon showers, but now that the rains have begun it looks happy and is also giving a lot of large sized layered hibiscus flowers. Reasons why plant leaves burn- Red Layered hibiscus Leaves Burnt 1) too hot temperatures and kept under direct sunlight for long hours 2) Planting in new place, adjustment stress. 3) Plant attacked by mites and caterpillars so leaves start to turn yellow. 4) too much fertilizer 5)  Watering in hot afternoon time when the soil is very hot and even the leaves are hot. How to avoid leaf burns in plants- 1) Keep checking the hours of exposure of sunlight or shift containers during hot summers. 2) See that the soil is healthy and not soggy or clogged. This affects plant health and also prone to attacks by pests. Even when...

Go Getter Inflight Magazine June 2016 Urban Gardens I am so so so happy to see my words in print! On top of the world! Urban Gardens has some of my precious important rare practical tips for taking care of your garden during hot summers. Have a good read in the latest Issue of Go Getter June 2016 ! Did you know this? A Fireflies festival! Purushwadi Maharashtra. Informative  and Appealing with loads of Great Getaways, photographs and interesting read, Yes in the new June 2016 issue of Go Getter In flight magazine. From Goa to Shimla to kashmir! Dream Destiantions. And rare unique natural Root Bridges!  Mawlynnong! India's Fist Bicycle Highway! Priyanka Chopra on her dream run! Power Packed with Awesum destinations, The Team of Maxposure has done a fabulous job to bring out yet another beautifully attractive good read, One for keeps! So while the list of my dream destinations goes up , already visited the Gods own country back waters Kerala, and Goa and Ma...

Best hill station in India Maharashtra, Mahabaleshwar! You will never visit just once,t he mountains will keep calling you again and again! Black Plum, Indian Black Berry, Jamun, Java Plum, Jambool, has great medicinal properties. Yummy Strawberry with Fresh Cream  Mahabaleshwar is so Awesum with fruits! I love flowers and fruits!  Best Fruit Healing feng shuii Paintings for sale by Rizwana A.Mundewadi Being a healing artists I always trust the flow and plan of the Universe to bring me to magical places. I never research about them, they are planned by my husband so actually it is a surprise to see with awe each new destination and traveling with family.  There is so much magic in visiting a new place, we usually never repeat places in our travel list. An evergreen tropical tree, you will see loads and loads of Jamun trees all over Mahabaleshwar. A beautiful hill station surrounded by Awesumness all the way! Cool temperatures and fresh air always all year rou...