Jaipur Garden

Saturday, 7 March 2026

Garden Affair : Blogoversary

I was this enthusiast Gardener who fall for plants in the early childhood days when I used to pick up Dog Flowers[Snapdragons ] growing in my Garden just to play with them like with puppets . I am sure many of you had played with them in your childhood.

It was almost 13 years ago when I started this blog to share my passion for plants with world, little did I knew that I would be able to connect with fellow Gardening Enthusiast from around the world on this journey.

Garden Affair was born to share Garden happenings , resolving queries related to growing plants, understanding and exploring new Gardening trends and techniques. I would like to Thank everyone whoever has participated and shared their posts in this linky party.

Thank you for being actively involved every week in the Garden Affair linky party. Now with great delight I would like to share with everyone I am publishing my first ever Gardening eBook in the upcoming months . The first book will be a Guidance book on Gardening. I would need your support .

It is the time for link up party Garden Affair where we can share posts related with Gardening, Nature and birds. The link up party will be open for a week.

Saturday, 28 February 2026

Garden Affair : Happy Holi

Festival of colors is around the corner, Holi is the prominent Indian festival celebrated in India during spring season. It also signifies victory of Good over Evil. The Festival of Holi is generally celebrated by applying color on each others body thereby signifying social harmony among all people irrespective of caste, color and creed.

A colorful Holi scene

Holi falls in the spring season of the year and Garden also displays vibrant colors during this time of year.

It is the time for link up party Garden Affair where we can share posts related with Gardening, Nature and birds. The link up party will be open for a week starting from Saturday.

Friday, 20 February 2026

Garden Affair : Pink prevalent in spring

The early spring was anticipated when rise in temperature was seen in the first week of February .We are entering into the third week of February and temperature has risen drastically which is unusual and alarming for spring this year .

The only silver lining is early spring blooms it seems pink will dominate this spring

Schzianthus is in prime of its blooms

Snapdragon

Clarkias are already blooming

Hibiscus have started blooming

While it is exhilarating to experience spring after winters the early arrival of spring is sign of long exhausting intense summer period coming in upcoming days .

It is the time for link up party Garden Affair where we can share posts related with Gardening, Nature and birds. The link up party will be open for a week.

Saturday, 14 February 2026

Garden Affair : Making Plants your valentine

Its the valentine Day which has primary motive is to seek and give love and compassion in relationships from our near and dear ones .When we show compassion to our Plants by nurturing them u will never be disappointed as they revert back producing harvest in return , providing aesthetic to your Garden and home, giving calmness to your mind and soul. I believe in showing affection to plants is more rewarding than to human beings.

A spring scene from my Garden

This aesthetic beauty from flora world known as Bleeding heart vine represents the Valentines Day

It is the time for link up party Garden Affair where we can share posts related with Gardening, Nature and birds. The link up party will be open for a week .

Monday, 9 February 2026

Spring is knocking

The beginning of February saw a rise in temperature with slight presence of Winter chills, the dormancy in plants is broken as we can observe the formation of buds promising early arrival of spring season this year.

Roses are back on arrival of Rose Day

Geranium buds are as beautiful as blossoms

An Adenium blooming in early spring is quite surprising

Buds appearing on common hibiscus

Four o'clock blooms breaks from the dormancy

The warming up of first week of February is alarming as it makes us realize that concept of Global warming is actual reality while the only silver lining is we can observe early blooms of spring flowers.

I was fortunate to spot black Drongo on the outskirts of city

Saturday, 7 February 2026

Garden affair : Rose Day

Today 7th Feb is considered as Rose Day which is the beginning of a week dedicated to showing affection towards relationships. We are observing early arrival of spring this year with some of the Roses variety are already blooming in my Garden in the first week of February itself.

Here I am sharing some of the Roses from my Garden on the occasion of Rose Day.

I had made a detailed post on How to grow Roses in Garden, please do check it out for growing roses in your Garden.

It is the time for link up party Garden Affair where we can share posts related to Gardening, Nature and birds. The link up party will be open for a week starting from Saturday.

Saturday, 31 January 2026

Garden Affair : Plant that interacts with me in Garden

Flora and fauna world is full of surprises, while the sheer beauty of plants are always drawing factor there are some of the mysterious attributes of plants that make them stand out in flora world.

Mimosa pudica is an interesting bush in plant world where leaves are interactive when touched by hand . This plant is popularly known as Touch me not plant as leaves of the plant closes and move inwards when touched by the hand as shown in the below picture .

Mimosa bush leaves closes when touched by hands

The mimosa bush is a small perennial plant that grows in to small shrub and blossoms two times a year with fuzzy purple flowers that stores seeds .

Mimosa Flower

Plant care and growing method

Mimosa bush is a hardy plant that doesn't require much care and grows well in hot and humid climate. It can be easily grown through seeds.