Beautiful People Bring Beautiful Seasons Always! Beautiful Gardens Always bring Joy! Happiness Garden 9 Tips

The dried garden BEFORE

The feng shuii Joy garden AFTER

Happy New Year from Rizwana A.Mundewadi Reiki Healing artist India

Some people, just like flowers, often give pleasure just by being themselves! All of the seasons are truly beautiful for people who carry happiness within them. Happy New Year 2019! And May this be the Best One for All of Us! #gardencaresimplified.     Beautiful gardens always bring Joy to the World! While the struggles with entryway garden continue ,low light and too much atmospheric dust, yet the snake plant and Chinese Good Luck Bamboo plants are growing. Really true to its feng shui symbolism, the good luck bamboo is a tough survivor.  Window gardens with low light, we have north facing windows, are growing with Anthurium, Brahma Kamals , Fern, Chinese Evergreen, Anant Gardenia, Aloevera, purple hearts, wandering jew and a few more. With the New year, 2019 more garden excitement contines to add fresh energy. Goals this year for making happiness gardens , add more, green and more colours! 1) more focus on ornamental pretty plant containers ( my containers were hand painted, but now we r spoilt with choice! So many unique plant containers!) 2) Focus on what grows happily in restricted environment. Add those plants. 3) No sunlight no flowers, doesn't matter.Add plants with coloured leaves, always a colourful garden! 4) Garden design. The terrace garden had its own design. Now focus on setting unique and workable garden design , easy maintenance gardens are priority. No more excuses for starting happiness gardens! 5) On a travelling spree, so minimal care container plants would be good. That's one thing I am blessed with, whenever we go for a week or so, my gardens are taken care of by fairies. And what a beautiful care they give. In fact telling someone to water my plants last time we were out, was a mistake, my plants don't take well to new hands energy. Choose plants that require less frequent watering 6) Always be prompt in keeping your garden neat and trimmed! Overflowing gardens look so happy, but dried overflowing gardens do not! There is a difference! Dried pots and plants bring negative energy and are bad feng shuii. 7) Go vertical! Best way to keep floor space clean in entryway garden. Have grown some plants in bottles, they look great!  Recycling, focus, 2019! 8) They need more love than care! Accept this! Those who are gardeners and those who have gardens know! More love, lots of love, love is so enough! Most times! 9) Never give up! Nope! Never give up on gardens! I always advice people, some plants may not have worked for you, doesn't mean you have a sore thumb for gardening! Plants are so cheap, even cuttings, we now get ready potted plants, no hassles. While you may be spending on so many other things, put this on your list. A small amount of happiness in your financial budget! You will see how your health and wealth will transform. Try it, it works! Have a Blessed 2019! Happy Gardening from Rizwana! ( Sharing this, the most happiest emails of fantastically ecstatic happiness, and when people meet me with excitement sharing about their plant additions- when people say they have started gardening because of me! Following my Garden Care Simplified and my love and passion for plants, and of course I blush and go on cloud nine! Made a little difference to the world, my life!  Its definately Worth it!

Old coke bottle with money plant

Greeeeens

Colours

Best creations of nature

Mini gardens

Plastic bottles recycled

New growing plants from old mother plant

Welcome to my entryway garden where no flowers grow but there is always happiness!

Happy Gardening from Rizwana! Sharing practical container gardening tips with my Google Blog Garden Care Simplified since year 2010 to encourage growing plants, improving the eco system and environment and adding fragrances and colours through exotic flowers in your life! Only natural fragrances! uplift your senses!

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All the Best from Rizwana!

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World Soil Day, celebrated this year,  5 December 2018. The International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS), in 2002, adopted a resolution proposing the 5th of December as World Soil Day to celebrate the importance of soil as a critical component of the natural system and as a vital contributor to human well being.(Google) 
No soil no food.Soil the healer, the energy of grounding.Blessings of Mother Earth, soil has an emotional connection to our bodies.A very important part of the cycle of nature. While people are going soil less with alternative methods in growing plants, I still cling with the muddy hands and digging of soil. 
Its absolutely Awesome to dig your hands in soil, get them muddy and I have noticed,what whatever I am going through, this gardening brings a beautiful grounding stability and fresh energy in my life. Keep soil near you, in any form, this will keep you grounded and happy.
So true is the quote that brings nostalgic memories in hearts of NRI's 'mitti ki khushbu' ''apne desh ki mitti' .
 Life calling, soul destination, "Kutch nahi dekha to kuch nahi dekha"Amitabh Bachchan promoting Gujrat tourism ,so on wish list, the vast salt dessert. Absolute Bluss! Largest salt dessert, Rann of Kutch. The festival is on from November 2018 till February 2019. Worth visiting and out of this world experience! Mesmerizing whiteness, salt salt everywhere, fresh purification of the body and soul. Its fantastic to ride camel cart and I always make it a point to ask the name of the camel, or horse and thank them too, and of course selfie with the horse and selfie with the camel rocks!  

View from the tower Rann of Kutch Salt Dessert

Rann Utsav Rann of Kutch Festival 2018

Meanwhile our 3 little gardens are growing well, windows and the entryway garden. Container gardening is challenging as plants have to grow in limited soil. With struggle for beginning few months have come to right combination of plants that grow in low light and less water. 
Practical points to consider when going for short vacation- 
1) If you are often on the go traveling, choose to grow container plants that require less water. 
2) Large pots hold more staying capacity. If the root system is strong they survive better in any challenging conditions for few days.
3) Do not plant new seeds or new saplings if you are going to be away, they may sprout but will die off if not cared for. ( Mine love me so much, they are still alive, blessed for this love,) But am now very careful in planting new seeds and do consider the timing to nurture the new babies coming out.
4) the plates below the containers, if filled with water help. Gradually supplying moisture to the plants.
 5) Try growing plants in water, this is what I am trying to do now, its another entryway garden challenge, but will be worth to keep my entrance green. I have seen you tube videos and on Google that all plants grow in water, but there is a right technique to grow them other wise they rot.
6) If you can request a neighbor or domestic help to water them, this helps, but I usually avoid this as many times my plants don't take well with someone else handling them. and have lost some due to over watering by other people once in a while. especially container plants need controlled watering.
7) Multiple space covers help conserve moisture. Remember to grow like minded plants, team then up, each benefits the other. 

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8) If you can plan vacations during winter or rainy season where watering needs are comparatively less for your container plants. That's what we try to do, so that I also know they will be fine in a few days of my absence.
Recycling projects on mind, have grown in cold drink bottles and hand painted bottles, Chinese bamboo and money plants and this looks great! With my garden they are never the same, every few months some new, some changes and some additions are always there!
Happy Gardening! All the Best from Rizwana!
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My little entryway garden

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Flowers of Nainital Succulents Airport Arrangements and Lakes of Nainital/Original photos of flowers in nainital

At the Snow view point Nainital

Lemon drink Nainital lemons

Flowering cactus

Lighting Garden plants

Vibrant Pink

Nainital lake view from hotel suite room

Yellow flowers in wild Nainital

Succulents Nainital Classic Hallway Hotel

Pink against the Majestic Himalayas

Lantana flowering plants

Flowers are everywhere! the best climate for flowers and succulents, Nainital. Hill station in India in the State of Uttarakhand.A glittering majestic point near the  Himalayas. Set around the Nainital lake and the best view came from the Hotel we stayed in. By flight to Delhi, Train to kathgodam and then a private car takes you uphill, the spinning curves, to Nainital. Approximately 2084 meters above sea level. So from the city of Lakes, visited Ooty, Ajmer, Jaipur, and more on my wish list.

Beautiful balsam flowers

Lemon tree Nainital

Kamal lake Nainital

Soft lovable pink!

Best time to visit Nainital is from November as the climate is chilly wintery and cool pleasant now.For snow fall December to January is best time if you dream of snow.
So many vibrant flowers, the climate does do wonders to succulents they are everywhere!Balsam with their vibrant colourful blooms love Nainital!

Vistaar flight

Vistara inflight magazine brought back memories when I wrote articles and got published

Diwali flower arrangement at Delhi airport

Flower swastik Diwali arrangement at airport

Flower decoration airport

Don't forget to eat fire pan

Close to Delhi Amritsar Golden Temple

Lighting trees Deepavali Festival

Flowers Nainital

Snow peaked Himalayas

Horse riding Nainital( just posing!)

Clear fresh blue skies Nainital

Boating Nainital saat taal

Memories of writing for inflight magazines spice jet travel

Flower pots in hotel suites Nainital

Vibrant Balsam

View from hotel monastery temple church mosque Nainital

Lake view hotel Nainital

Boating shikaras Nainital

Nainital

Fragrant Raat ki Raani lighted up

Morning glory Nainital

Majestic roses Nainital

Big lemons on tree Nainital

The best part, exotic lemons , very big sized, the size of a ball.
Tangy refreshing drinks of this fruit are served everywhere, quite a shot with soda!
Peaks, snow view point, plants, fresh cool air, food for my soul! Life happens while you live, make the most of it!

Artificial pink tree

Big sized lemons Nainital

meanwhile on my garden front some do look really sick. But good that watering has brought back life. This always works, the mention of replacing them...they just fire back to life!!! Thats love!! containers that were tough for an open terrace garden with full blast of sunlight are not well fitted here for entry way and window sill garden that receive only indirect sunlight. A major makeover in happening soon!new plant containers!
Garden stands, garden design on my mind! Enjoy!
 Happy Gardening!

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All the Best from Rizwana!

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