Gardening-Simplified

New seeds sprouting of Water melon and Musk melon Fruits Buddha Purnima, full moon night celebrated as Vesak, meaning full moon  day in sanskrit. The birth, enlightenment and passing away of Buddha. While Buddhists from around the globe celebrate Buddha Purnima with flowers, candles and incense, it symbolizes that life is one to go away and as the flowers wither and the candles burn away so also is life subject to decay and completion. Devoted Buddhists spend this time in spiritual meditations, rituals for purification and sharing gifts and doing good deeds, helping the needy and also expressing the joy of existence. While the tradition goes that at the time of his death while his followers were weeping Buddha advised them to understand the Dharma, law that is nature, and death is certain, a change, of the soul leaving the decaying body. Doing good deeds and observing a simple life is the true observance of honoring this day. While I have an artwork in a new technique on Bud...

Exotic Birds in our own surroundings , with thick bushy growth around we have a lot of beautiful exotic birds around and any bird lover would enjoy the early mornings and evenings among the chirpy environment. Another sick bird , actually fell from the sky! new Guest Alexandrine Parakeet who looked tired and sick maybe because of the heat. Excitement and wonder when he climbed over my shoulder and took entry into our home. The first bath was under the shower but the next days he never left my shoulder bathed sitting over under the shower. He must have been scared and hence was clinging for safety. Fully loaded with fruits Date Palm Male Alexandrine parakeet  This is where my son found him Welcome to our home Bathing of Alexandrine parakeet Exotic bird in black with white stripes  Awe struck with beauty in nature, so detailed artwork of colorful birds right near us. The thick growth surrounding is a haven for exotic birds, and I was surprised to see the b...

Trimmed leaves of peace lily, the Javed Habib hair cut  Finally got a Javed Habib hair cut!so the fungus growth has been going on and on for months and with all the bathings, washings, and even past winter the white fungus seems to have made a home on both the healthy plants of peace lily. The white fungus is very dangerous for health of the plant and for us. White ring like patches come on underside of the leaves and even when the plant looks healthy from above with blooms the fungus keeps spreading to all leaves and even to other plants. Took a lot of effort to take this step as there were a lot of blooms on both the plant which were looking so heavenly. So finally the hair cut! shocked!  the plant has come up with fresh green healthy leaves! Red Ants in Plant containers Most common problems in summers come up with red ants and usually they take over the whole garden if left unattended. they eat up the roots and make the soil porous and as the soil leaves the pots ...

First buds after four years on gulmohar tree growing in container  Immense happiness and color in the garden, with so many uses of gulmohar flowers hardly do they compare to its beauty, the flowers of gulmohar are extremely beautiful, unique and vibrant color of red and orange. A master piece of God each petal finely painted and shaded into a most beautiful floral art. Nature is beautiful! The first opening of flowers as early sunrise couldn't help but capture how carefully , silently the buds burst into life of color, coloring the whole garden and uplifting the energy instantly!  Gulmohar flowers can be used to make natural dyes and colors instead of letting them go waste. when mixed with turmeric produces golden yellow colour. They produce a olive green with alum. Natural dyes can be used to color cottons and silks as research indicates. Holi natural colors can be got by making a paste of gulmohar flowers to get yellow. Dry gulmohar flowers well and grind them for a r...

Very Low Hanging green Mangoes on tree  Except from Amitabh Bachchan dropping in your house and hitting the green mangoes with a stone, (the advertisement was off the screen due to the smooching sound and actions added to the ad of kachha aam), a mango tree in your garden can do great wonders to you and your life.And yes I tried the small sweet in the advertisement kacha aam is great taste just like eating a raw mango with spices added. The fascination with raw mangoes dates back to childhood, the kacha kairi cut into small pieces and chillie and turmeric along with salt just made a special dish out of this world! mango fruits on tree Two small puppies sleeping  Its a Dog's life when you are enjoying, sounds quite true with these little fellows sleeping cosily just like in their mothers womb. We have 18 strays dogs in our society apart from the pets that people have , its sometimes a war of calls as to all decide to enjoy their vocal chords at a time. Strays have...

Agave in red colored leaves fruits on agave plant Agave variety maybe the plant with beautiful colored red elongated leaves  Agave Striata Gualdalcazar / Agave Striata Rubra am not aware of the plant name, is a beautiful plant grown in dry  rocky soil requiring less watering and full sunlight. The fruits or flowers look like pineapple fruits, except in beautiful reddish peach color.There are so many different types of agave planst with beautiful greenish grey colored elongated leaves. This one looks great even without flowers or frutis as the leaves are a beautiful reddish coppery green colored. The thorny leaves grow well under full sunlight and act as great focal points in any landscape garden design. This plant picture is captured in a private landscaped garden. Wowed with the beautiful colored leaves and fruits! Meanwhile our garden is happy with blast of color with full sunlight. With another few stems coming up of the large sized Amaryllis flowers, bestest i...

Buds on Curry Leaves Plant  This was  a huge surprise and I have never seen the curry leaves plant flower or heard about this. The plant has given out a long stem juts like bulb plants and had tiny creamish buds in large numbers.  The flowers opened after a few days and looked beautiful, tiny miniature like flowers very similar to white lilly or amaryllis , but just very very small. The beauty in nature and God's creation was in detail , each flower so tiny, with the thin creamish petals and clear shape, this has maybe come up after many years. Maybe the plant got affected by being surrounded with everywhere blooming flowers. With two of our Amaryllis bulbs giving out healthy large sized blooms the garden is a riot of colors, white as in mogra and juhi and roses of pink and whites, spider lily and peace lilly flowers, kamini with citrus fragrant creamish bunches, peach, pink kaners, champa, and just colors and fragrances like wild! Thank you God! Heavenly whit...