Garden Affair: Plants attracting Tailor birds in my Garden

 Lately Tailor birds had been the most visiting bird in my Garden during this  monsoon season. It is a well known fact that most birds have mainly two breeding and nesting season in  a year one is spring and another is monsoon season in our region and  thereby  Tailor bird has its peak of nesting season from June to August. 

While they are known  for their majestic skills of sewing leaves to make their nest it is interesting to know they choose long elliptical shaped leaves to make nest as they can sew them to make a deep and secured nest . 

                                                                   Tailor bird nest         

In last few years I had seen they choose some of the trees in my Garden that have long leaves such as Mango trees, Ashoka tree in my Garden for nesting. 

                                                                             Mango tree

Ashoka Tree

Tailor birds mostly feed upon small insects and larva and are attracted to flowering trees such as Hibiscus to prey upon bugs.                                                                                                                       

Hibiscus tree 

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Garden affair : Garden blooms after monsoon

The monsoon phase of heavy downpour had been on a halt . Monsoon brings the temperature down and make weather moderate that rejuvenates Garden and brings bloom again to the Garden. 

                                                                       Gomphrena blooms

Ruellias

Cosmos

Balsam 

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Garden Affair : Heart of Jesus plant

 

Heart of Jesus popularly known as Caladium plant is a beautiful plant that has large multicolored leaves that makes them most sought over houseplants for growing in shade areas. 

Growing and care of Caladium plants 

Caladium plants are easy to grow plants with bulbs and require indirect sunlight and fertile soil for best results. 

                                                                           

   

Why are they known as ' Heart of Jesus ' 

Caladium leaves are mostly bicolor with deep red and pink in middle that resonates with bleeding heart or sacred heart . Caladium plants are also called elephant ears due to their striking resemblance with them . 

      

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Garden Affair : Independence Day

 Today is our 80th Independence Day , true independence is freedom to speech which has been a topic of discussion   in our country after younger generation marched a protest against the Government recently . Independence has its own definition for everyone subjectively. 

Monsoon is active in my region the concurrent rains had turned the  garden into green carpet. 

                                                                  

Monsoon brings back the blooms in portulaca plants . 

                                                                              

                                                                       

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Garden Affair : Sunflowers from my Summer Garden this year

 Summer season is always dreadful for the Garden as we have scorching heat and concurrent heat waves make it unbearable to do gardening with ease. Although silver lining to summer weather is we can grow Sunflowers in summer season. 

This summer  my Garden was bestowed with  two varieties of Sunflower that brought radiance in otherwise drab garden .

  

Growing Sun Flower in hot climate and  care                                                                           

                                                                                 

Sunflower can be grown in full sunny conditions as they adapt hot summer climate very well , they can be easily grown through seeds in well drained fertile soil and can thrive in semi drought         conditions .                                                                                                                                             

                                                                 Teddybear Sunflower 

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Garden affair: Monsoon miniature Flower magic

 Monsoon brings relief in Garden as heatwaves come to an end and weather becomes pleasant in the Garden subsequently. Perennial  plants show up with blooms after downpour. This monsoon season the miniature blooms are the center of Attraction in my Garden. 

                                                  Butterfly weed Flower

                                                                 

Blue Plumbago 

Jatropha 

Pentas

Lantana 

The carpet of miniature blooms on perennial plants is an eye catching experience in monsoon. Monsoon is best for planting perennials and preparing for upcoming winter season. 

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Garden Affair : Bunny Ear Cactus

 The most rewarding cactus for every laidback gardener is Bunny ear cactus. This hardy cactus has been present in my Garden from last five years . The best part about growing Bunny ear cactus is you plant them  in shallow containers and just give them sunlight for the day  and then forget about planting them  and let mother Nature do her work you will be surprised seeing the end results when they cover the entire container with baby plants covering the container . 

                                                      

The cactus growth can be wild in few months only  and they are good for making landscapes for  arid areas.                                                                                                                                                

How to grow and Propagation of Bunny Ear Cactus                                                                    

The most easiest method to propagate Bunny Ear cactus is planting leaf in a arid soil or well drained soil . They love sunlight and planting in shallow containers helps in drainage .                                   

Propagation through leaf 

Note: They are prickly like other cactus so handle carefully with protection on hands. 

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