Gardening-Simplified

Newly planted, yes with hope, happiness, excitement and planning to see some great awesum blooms, but within a few hours or a day the newly planted plant dies! So many queries I get that the newly planted plant has droopy leaves after a day of planting, or the sapling looks sick, the new plant does not give out any change or even that the plant suddenly died with no reason What so ever! Why does a newly planted plant die? The obsession , though there is hardly any space left, but still a  few more squeezed in the addition of my precious extended family! With my obsession of plants it is most  of the time that I have this compulsion to buy new plants. Actually they are squeezed in my little space under the sun but they love me and bless me with awesum blooms. Newly Planted Exotic! Plant with white leaves tiny yellow flowers Ribbon Grass Beautiful ribbon Grass Close up Petunia flowers fluorescent pink Awesum fluorescent pink petunia bllooms H...

Old sofa set as unique planters in garden Recycle your old furniture, instead of throwing away old broken pieces of furniture you can reuse them unique creatively as garden planters. This beautiful concept has been going on since long time by eco friendly and eco awareness drives and this photo was shared by a friend on face book. I have been using so many broken pots,  artifacts and sculptures as unique planters and even hand painted bottles that look awesum and also bring out the beauty in your greens! The gum boots and the helmet  is a classic one in my garden that are great conversation pieces! Old shelves and drawers as beautiful garden planters for those who have large gardens it is difficult to bring out so many planters and this concept is so beautiful using recycled old furniture as planters. You not only benefit from the old furniture instead of throwing it you also do a bit for the mother earth by using these resources in a great way. These also act as gr...

Evil Eye on Your plants , I don't know whether you have seen this and if you accept this, but I did not a few years back. It never came upon me that this could happen, but have seen plants die off within a few hours from some ones touch or evil eye or comment! Buri nazar on flowering plants has become common and people gets cared to show their blooms. Few years back I would not have believed this but it happened in front of my eyes! I dont know why,  but women carry more negative energy as compared to men regarding flowering plants. Some one just plucked a tomato fruit and tasted it, threw it and by evening the plant dried! Roses too do not take well to everyone. And I have lost some great ones by visitors or servants just randomly plucking flowers. Actually they don't realize that flowers are a part of the plant. I always take permission before plucking a flower, and that too only rarely I do as flowers stay fresh longer on plants. Then gently take sharp scissors and cut the...

Recycled wood from cut trees art  Recycling cut wood from trees is a great cheap way to decorate your house. This inspiration came fifteen years back and still the pieces of painted wood from the Gulmohar tree are great and look unique and beautiful! A simple way to attract feng shui wood energy into your home is to add real wood that is excellent form of wood energy to activate relationships , health and wealth energy in your home or any space. Decorative show pieces from scrap cut wood  You just have to look out for cut pieces from road side or your own garden, search for naturally beautiful forms, branches that may look like or are similar to any attractive form or shape. When I first saw this tree cut in our society compound, it just connected with me, there were so many beautiful forms, each one on its own amazing, some similar to what we see in nature some abstract and some intriguing but each one unique. And you just don't have to spend a  lot of money for...

Red Layered Hibiscus flowering plant Hibiscus plants are grown for religious purposes as it is often sad that a home growing this flowering plant attracts good luck and God's Blessings. This is due to the fact that it is loved by Ganesha, the Elephant Headed God,  and also used as offering in temples. Hundreds of species of types of different hibiscus flowers! Its difficult to grow one for years and I wonder that's why it is so auspicious!  Especially as winter sets in the plants are always attacked by white flies, aphids or pest, I don't know why but due to low sunlight and high water content, is one of the reason, that many hibiscus plants grown on window sills in pots  do not make over the long chilly winters. Rare Hibiscus flowering plant From health benefits to symbolic religious importance Hibiscus is grown every where for their large sized blooms. Its great dye additive for hair and growing healthy hair. Not only had I planted many many different typ...

How Much Water is Required for my Indoor Plants? while some follow the simple daily ritual of watering their indoor plants like the outdoor ones some keep it once in two days and some once a week. Some literally drown the plants in water, (I am , till I learnt the hard way!dedicated to the awesum ones who I have lost due to over watering...) Anthuriums Exotic Indoor plants Peace Lilly Plants grow well indoors Feng shui strength, Rubber Plant grows well in artificial lighting.  Since I had kept the beautiful awesum Chinese Green and Bamboo plants that grew beautifully indoors the watering was always an issue. Over watering the plants made the soil look soggy and also attract mosquitoes. The plate under neath the pots was taken care off in whenever the water seeped through from the bottom of the pot, because stagnant water breeds diseases. So I selected a ceramic container that could retain water for longer time. It all depends upon the type of plant you have indoor...

Love bird eye swollen  Love bird eye swollen since past few days and though the garden is so vibrant with awesum gulmohar blooms, Lilly fragrances, Amaryllis large blooms, and Allamanda majenta big flowers,  and mogra heavenly white flowers the budgie who is a simply beautiful disciplined one, I have named her "Golden Monk" is sick... No love birds don't show any signs of disease and looks good, eats with others but there is a swelling near her right eye and once we removed some pus but the boil seems to be like a tumour or thickened and don't know, just praying she recovers fast. Antibiotics help to heal faster and she was given feeding diluted with water with a dropper. I don't know how, but on searching with google found that either some other budgie has hit her near the eye or she accidentally got hurt or it may be an eye infection. I so take care of keeping them clean, bathing them and they love the morning and evening trips outside under the blue sky w...