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17.10.18

Cymbopogon Lemon Grass Plant and DIY Ladder Swing Love Bird Budgie Toys

Lemon Grass Plant Window sill Garden
Lemon grass is a herb that has been used since ancient times, who would not get nostalgic with the lemon grass tea mom prepared during cold winters and we hardly knew why tea tasted so awful! but gulped it!
Added a new plant, now, till date used to buy lemon grass from market but storing lemon grass in refrigerators does lull its effects somewhat. Fresh plant, lemon grass, easy growing , requires partial sunlight,indirect sunlight. Too much sunlight will burn off the leaves.
Cymbopogon. Lemon Grass. From the grass family , it is a natural air purifier and mosquito repellent. Improves blood circulation. Great for healthy skin, and of course loads of Vitamin C! anti allergic, anti oxidants, strengthens immunity, good for cough flu colds.
Growing the lemon grass plant in hanging basket in my little window sill garden which receives some indirect sunlight.
Lemon Grass Plant New

Ladder Swing for my Pet Birds
 Easy DIY Love Bird Budgie Toys.S while I have more plant and bird friends than humans in this new place I have only two of my bird friends.Love birds.Trying out different games and foods for them.Made a swing, ladder with icecream sticks. Cheap home made budgie toys are easy to make and what more you can amke them from left over items at home.
DIY ladder for love bird budgies
 You can make swings from plastic or wooden bangles, just check that your creative budgies may nibble this, so check for eco friendly colour on them.
Make at home bird toys
 I have hung bangles that are wrapped in cloth. and Natural Wood branches for them to enjoy earthy perch. The three tier home has space for both of them to fly within and enjoy private space too. For keeping them busy give them a complete mix of diet and toys to nibble on. My old budge(who is no more now...)used to nibble on news papers.This one here Honey" loves to munch on wood, little does she realize that the perch falls off when trimming the corners!and this has happened and with flustered fear she flies in side looking at me as to why the branch fell down!
Took the rounded kulfi sticks , tied them with rope, twine. You can make as many steps as you want according to the available space in their home. One more activity and game!
That's My Hero!My Best Friend Birdie Masha Allah

Enjoying some time out in the entry way garden
easy cheap diy bird toys
Being a gardener since so many years life shows us happiness as well as parting pain. Lost this purple petunia..but happy saved the photographs and the creative artist just can't rest so will make the photo available for prints.
Dying Petunia

Purple Petunia

Purple Petunia

Red Vibrant Petunias
 Red Petunias took well, maybe the way I parted the roots and planted is an important part of successfully growing petunias. And watering , this will give you a healthy petunia or a dead one! correct way of watering!
Hanging Basket of Happiness

Creative Petunias Check my Fine Art America Rizwana Mundewadi for fantastic floral art prints and creative floral printed products

Red Chinese Roses
 Here a little window sill garden. The other window has overwhelming pots! trying to focus on arrangement and garden design, about buying garden pot stands and pot holders. will check them online!
Window garden,this is one window
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9.10.18

Bought a Garden Hose Spray Gun Snap deal

Garden Hose Nozzle Spray Gun
 Garden  Hose spray Gun, the struggle with entry way garden and window garden continues as I keep replanting, shifting plants to make them survive with very low sunlight here.
Garden hose nozzle spray gun 
Few new additions, I need to be surrounded by flowers, always! Instant colour, add petunias! of course its difficult to grow them as the roots are extremely delicate. But its all worth the fantastic show!
Purple petunias
New exotic plants
Exotic purple in wilderness
Facing  the watering challenges checked Google and WOW, on snap deal found a Garden hose attachment spray with nozzle. The spray gun with its settings to adjust the type of water sprinkler you want to water your garden plants has made it much easier to water a large amounts of container plants and it also helps remove dust and grime coated on plant leaves that attracts poor growth.  
Nature Trails Nature walks 
Red Adenium plant
It is quite affordable and very easy to attach to a pipe and watering now has become quite fun instead of the chore it was carrying tiny containers watering the plants carefully in my little entryway garden!
While we lost a few and even some new additions didn't last in our entry way garden am happy that the best bet for shade gardens is snake plant and Chinese bamboo !
Happy gardening! remember Gardening is love, gardening is fun, if you know how to! Many people have asked how to make gardening easy, this post is one step towards making gardening easy.
My experience with this product is great. loved the comfort of using this spray gun, garden , the attachments will need some secure connection as water here is in full force and the pipe goes haywire! What more I can now spray the plant every time I water them so they are looking fresh and happy as the dust and grime clears, hoping for more greens now in my life!working upon making diy garden planters for my little entry way garden!
All the Best from Rizwana!
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19.9.18

How to DIY garden decor Birds Stones Fairy Stools- Entryway garden challenges

How to DIY entry way garden decor. So while you can hire someone to make a great garden,  and also an attractive entryway garden design, I have seen so many homes now go barren with all the plants dead!So once you see a garden and in few months nothing!
yet facing entry way garden challenges but shifting some plants, adding some and trying new plants for brings positive energy to our garden. The old news papers recycled making paper mache toad stools, pebbles, tortoises. Yes, they are not so perfect like machine manufactured toys, but they are made with my own hands and with loads of love!

Making fairy stools Mushrooms at home

Hand made recyled news paper garden decor
 And the obsessive artist gets to pour out some more creative energy.
Hand made tortoises  entry way garden decor


Pebbles and stones entry way garden decor design ideas
 Wall decals, wall stickers are also available cheap now a days you can order online very easily and you get lots of choices in budget range. If you are a good artist you can paint on the walls  of your entry way garden. Finding cheaper methods as I love to keep changing my garden placements and garden decor.
Planted a new Brahma Kamal plant
 So while the passage is a bit dull without direct sunlight coming in , especially now the rainy season was dull, but my plants survived , a few I had to shift to the window sill. Snake plant and peace lily are doing good. Ferns did get a bit limpy so had to shift them. maybe now after this season some brightness will come up.
Birds do come and sing in my entry way garden!
 So while actual bird friends cannot come here, they can always come by in form of art. fairies come about to take care of my garden and spread their magic.
Hand painted fairy stool

Red chinese rose bloomed in window garden

Red Majestic Rose

Old Brahma Kamal plant giving out weak leaves?stems

Painting using old left over house paint Asian paints
New additions red Adenium
The emotions of the obsessive gardener needs some additions. So while last month added so many new plants of coloured leaves, as flowers may find it challenging to bloom in entry way passage garden.
Welcome to the family! Anthurium , I had planted pink and white Anthuriums in my terrace garden but we lost them in a few years due to strong sunlight.  petunias and Vinca rose! Red adenium, rarely seen , so chanced upon this in a Pune city nursery. We have the flourescent pink one with us bought from kerala Allepy.

New additions Red Anthurium

New additions to our family petunias 

Welcome to the family!
They have found space in window sill garden where some amount of indirect sunlight comes.
New plants bring energy, happiness, and Joy! the space here is limited, yet bringing in more, welcoming energy, trying and facing entry way garden challenges , will not give up!
I need to be surrounded by flowers, I need to be surrounded by Colourful flowers, always, always!
All the Best from Rizwana!

Plant a garden and your life will never be the same!!

Happy Gardening from Rizwana!

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7.9.18

Excoecaria cochinchinensis Bicolour Variegated Cordylines why plants have red leaves?

Excoecaria cochinchinensis Bicolour Variegated

Cordyline terminalis

Pink day lillies Ribbon grass, new additions to window sill garden.
Eranthemum, Tricolour Stromanthe, Triostar Stromanthe, Stromanthe Sanguinea.
Why are leaves red? why crotons plants are having red leaves? Pigments present in croton leaves give the colour. chlorophylls, carotenoids, tannins, anthocyannins. each absorbs energy from different wave lengths and different regions. these properties give each pigment colour. some absorb red and blue, some absorb green. This also is affected by the amount of sunlight received by the plant.
The important pigment associated with red leaves, red plants is anthocyannin. Chrophyll decreases and anthocyannin increases in some plants due to reflected light and energy they absorb. These beautiful vibrant crimson lake red leaves are so beautiful against the greyish green variegated top.
Artistry in nature, and beauty, so many different shades, you wonder what a beauty God has made, nature truly is beautiful ..and you don't always need flowers to bring colour to your garden and life, leaves also are fantastic!
still continuing to face challenges in growing plants in my entry way garden with very low light and struggling yet, they , my plants love me so much,each one is trying their best. on the verge is the mayur pankhi plant, cypress , have with us since more than ten years...shifted this one to the window sill garden, ..praying..
And with the limitations now opens a new gateway to the world of succulents and ornamental shade loving plants, and of course coloured leaves because bringing them to flower in low lights would be near to impossible...so excited about finding new additions!
Adenium flowering

Coleus plants

new additions to my entryway garden

September days are here, with summers best of weather and Autumns best of cheer! Have a Great September from Rizwana!

23.8.18

Asarina Erubescens beautiful tubular pink flowering plant Nature Trails

Asarina Erubescens.
Asarina Erubescens beautiful tubular pink flowering plant

Asarina Erubescens beautiful tubular pink flowering plant
Lophospermum erubescens, known as Mexican twist or creeping gloxinia, is a climbing or sprawling herbaceous perennial, Soft Pink tubular shaped Blooms.  Taking a break amidst nature, nature walks, nature trails, I have a fancy for green forests away from the hub dub of daily life.And nature is Amazing! Take that walk in the wilds sometimes and you will be surprised at the beautiful unique plants and flowers. So many hidden from us, unknown beauties, rare, exotic. It is also meditative to see no houses, no people, no vehicles, only vast curved roads and the chirping of birds, the little movement and you spot an clever chameleon.
Unique shaped leaves 

Chameleon in the wilderness
The fresh smell of dampness and the wet soil.
Nature trails, Nature walks
As rain drops come falling by censored by the thick trees you feel rejuvented, fresh, in the moment. Time stands still! And you spot it, the magic door, wondering what would be beyond...a mad tea party, the mad hatter, the bottle of pink liquid "Drink Me"!
The Bottle of Love Pouring Happy Hearts
Magic Door
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9.8.18

Tibouchina urvilleana Purple Glory Tree Exotic Purple Rare Flowers

Tibouchina urvilleana, absolutely heavenly purple pinkish blooms. With the fresh rains, and the magical backdrop of grey clouds the flowers popped up as Angels attracting me towards them, the gardener in me got excited, clicked a lot, I actually go crazy in gardens with beautiful rare flowers, innfact colourful flowers make me really very very happy! Tibouchina, Purple Glory, fantastic blooms! Read on Google about this beautiful flowers. 
Tibouchina urivilleana


Exotic Purple Rare Flowers Tibouchina Purple Glory
A species of flowering plant in the family Melastomataceae, native to Brazil. Growing to 3–6 m tall by 2–3 m wide, it is a sprawling evergreen shrub with longitudinally veined, dark green hairy leaves. Meanwhile on my entryway passage garden, still continuing to face challenges. Yet, they are growing. With careful watering! Brought another leaf of Brahma kamal, the obsession to view the flower at least once in a lifetime continues...as my other Brahma kamal plants are giving out new leaves..added a few hand made garden ornaments. Toad stools, mushrooms made from recycling news papers, paper mache, fairy stools to welcome nature fairies, as they take care of my garden..fifteen days away from home and the garden was still green, its pure magic! Very cheap garden ornaments can be home made by recycling old newspaper.
Paper mache mushrooms hand made Toad stools
Wall decals are so Amazing! Wanted to bring magic, and WOW, as flowers will not grow here with no direct sunlight in my little entryway garden, completed the garden look!
Beautiful flowers design wall decals 

New Brahma Kamal leaf
Hoping someday I get to experience the magic of Brahma Kamal! All the Best from Rizwana, a Woman Google Garden Blogger,India!
hand made recycling newspaper flower vase 
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6.8.18

What does the colour of Rose flower symbolize. Meaning of different Rose colour


 Happy Friendship Day! Yellow: Friendship, Joy. Do you know which coloured rose to give for friendship day?
Red Rose 
  Throughout history, yellow has been closely associated with the sun, making these roses excellent for cheering people up. Yellow roses send a message of appreciation and simply pure appreciation love without the romantic element of other colors. The color represents feelings of joy and delight. Red roses symbolize passion love and happiness. Pink Roses, the so romantic roses for new love, fresh love. White Roses symbolizes purity and clear friendship. Dark red Rose flowers, again is a very passionate deep colour in roses.
Orange Rose

What more than to be greeted with roses, they are always the Best!
No wonder roses are king of flowers!
Fantastic Roses

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The King! Vermillon Red Rose

Magical Fairies in my window garden, The Yellow rose 
sharing photos of my precious roses in my gardening journey, more years doing terrace gardening.
 Rizwana Mundewadi from my little windowsill garden.

Yellow Rose
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