Gardening-Simplified

DIY home decor items simply by using your garden wood!How to paint dried trees. Unique home decor accessories and beautiful decorative wooden objects can enliven your room space and what a beautiful way to use the garden dried trees , a tribute to ones who have served so well giving us flowers and maybe fruits! When we have a  its bound that we get dried tress cut and trimmed wood which often goes waste. My first inspiration came in year 2000 when a huge Gulmohar tree was cut off as it was risky to the foundation of a building. Wood Branches and Roots Hand Painted DIY Home Decor Items The cut wood, in its natural form is so beautiful, even without flowers or leaves. branches flowing in natural forms, abstract designs, intriguing and interesting, so I had collected many pieces and hand painted them, decorated them,  and  they act in decor as major focal point! Dried wood and trimmed trees can be utilized in many ways - 1) Clean them and paint them , they look bea...

Fragrant Night Jasmine Juhi Climber  Night Blooming jasmine, juhi climbers loaded with white amazing blooms. The Night blooming jasmine needs regular trimming during winter season to control its growth and conserve energy.  and then allowing growth as spring season commences the plants sends out beautiful lime green tiny leaves shoots that grow in length. Given some support they fall off gracefully over a trellis. Fragrant white Juhi flowers Night Blooming Jasmine  The ends of each stem produces tiny buds and usually they are produced in many numbers as bunches. Night blooming jasmine buds begin to open as evening sets in and the fragrance is strongest at this time. Its advisable to check out buds and end tips before trimming or you may accidentally snip off the budding shoot. The surface of the shoots is slightly rough, not visible to naked eye,  and may produce itchiness or scratches on skin when rubbed accidentally so take care for allergic reactions wh...

Day 1 of Thane Art Fsetival I AM Gold spiritual Reiki Feng Shui Painting in Thane Art Festival Amazing crowds! fun , art and stalls and music concerts ! Thane Art Festival 13 14 15th February 2015! Will share more later on the gardening stall! God Bless from Rizwana! www.razarts.com

Amazing snowy white leaves plant  Amazing February, my birth month began with a bang! With the garden dressed up in amazing colors, our terrace garden has become a riot of colors! from whites to pinks to reds and yellows and amazing shades of greens! Star cluster at its best Balsam Pink flourescent blooms Pink Exotic Anthuriums  New Brahma Kamal Plants  From the regular heavenly visitors we se the beautiful green bee eaters which are so beautifully colorful and its the beauty with which they fly and catch a flying fly from air! Green Bea Eater birds  Dried a red chillie for days, month to get the seeds. Actually you can get a ready dried chillie. And within a week they have sprouted beautifully. Growing Chillie plants from seeds New sprouts of chillie plants  Shock! Screams! huge caterpillars, guess laid by the huge butterfly frequenting our garden and has feasted upon the huge dahlia leaves. Quite a size finger. Huge Ca...

Packet of flowering plant seeds How will you collect flowering plant seeds and grow them for the next season. The bi annual flowering plants usually give out blooms and then leave us. A wise gardener collects the seeds on appropriate time after flowers have dried on plants carefully packs them and then again new life begins for the next season. Over the years so many plants have been tried, I have learnt this after trying hard to collect seeds from my flowering plants. Many times the wait would continue after planting new seeds, days would pass and then months and no sign of growth!!! Here I have planted seeds from Kerala nursery and always as we visit any hill station some plant bulbs and seeds do come along as the obsession continues to clam some more in the small space we have under the sun !. Last time was a beautiful lilly bulbs  and flowering plant seeds from Ooty. The most important point in collection of seeds is to take a careful look at whether the marigold, zinnia...

Exotic blooms  We were lucky to have spent the year ending 2014 kerala, amongst the back waters. Horticulture exhibition in Allapuza, another experience and sharing a few pics. Showy leaves ornamental plant Huge sized bulbs rhizomes  Fair Allapuza Tubers and Rhizomes Coconut husk goods Kerala Exhibition December 2014  Horticulture exhibition Kerala was a great experience. Huge sized bulbs, banana plants, different types of unique flowering plants and along side the horticulture exhibition were also gadgets, garden equipment, home appliances etc. flowering plants for sale huge bulbs Allapuza exhibition fair statues and Idols in the exhibition exhibition kerala  so some beautiful bulbs,seeds, and plant saplings have found space under the sun in our extended family of plants. The awesum jetty and boat ride is an out of the world experience, a heavenly place, great water energy , Kerala!, Have a...

Awesome Valleys of munnar Kerala Breathtaking landscapes of Munnar , Thekkady , Kerala and the exotic blooms, the hang over still continues....Exotic blooms, huge flowering trees and awesum landscapes. Sharing a few pics from the flower exhibition show Kerala. Have a Great Day from Rizwana! www.razarts.com Flower Exhibition Kerala Flower Show Kerala Exotic blooms Kerala Flower Exhibition Varieties of Flowering plants Kerala Huge blooms Kerala Flower show Pansies Kerala Flower Exhibition Flowering plant arrangements Beautiful plant arrangements