Sunday, December 23, 2012

Christmas Eve and the cold, foggy garden

Today is Christmas Eve. The year is coming to an end once again. A real cold morning. As I write this post, the dogs are all huddled in their corners and some under blankets around me, the garden outside looks reposeful in its winter colours of marigold, the Aloe Vera flowering, the Lantana also showing off gentle colours and chrysanthemum in its last leg.

Every time I turn my face from my computer, this view at my back is this one- of my back garden. The front does not have much flowers yet. But this one always gladdens my heart and the house feels like a home with my flowers a sign of life, vitality and the quiet joy that permeates everything here.

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Many years later

This is the purdah-bel, or curtain creeper; flowering in March
I am writing a blog post on this blog after years. There has been so much gardening activity around the house that the whole view has changed. But I could not record it on the blog due to the sheer work that grips me in getting so much done in a day, including the garden.

This is already the middle of March now. The spring blossoms are fading away, and summer is approaching rapidly. Every onset means new adjustments. Today I have got a little tank installed to take care of the water that the RO system throws out.For several years now that water was draining on the grass of the front lawn, but I always was uncomfortable that so much minerals are going into the earth. Now with the new plan this water will be recycled for mopping and cleaning, instead of watering the garden.
 Marigold bushes flowered  outside my bedroom  in the back lawn.  

I am also removing the little elevation I call 'pahadi' on the southeast side of the garden as the Malati creeper has made that area a bit less sunny and no flowers grow their any more; though I have recently planted another fern plant there. I hope to remove the iron fence and put grass till the wall in that corner; so that even the dogs have more space to run around. Of course that much of stretch is hardly any growth in the size of the garden. As it is, two trees have already taken firm roots over there- the harsingar/parijaat and the christmas tree.

Maybe I could post a few more pictures especially because outside my own bedroom window such beautiful Sunnenerias are blooming right now, and of course before we start breaking the wall in front to make room for more planters as I am hoping to and mom is furious about!
First time what gardeners colloquially call chlorodumdum, flowering