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

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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 Budgi...

Bought a Garden Hose Spray Gun Snap deal

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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 ...

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

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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 ...

Excoecaria cochinchinensis Bicolour Variegated Cordylines why plants have red leaves?

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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 bea...

Asarina Erubescens beautiful tubular pink flowering plant Nature Trails

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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 ...