Garden Affair : Birds are back after advent of monsoon

 Monsoon rejuvenates the Garden completely, the hustle and bustle of birds are more often seen post monsoon rains . My Garden  start to witness bird visitors from monsoon till the advent of winter season. 

                                           The calling of Greater coucal in the morning  is quite dramatic                    

The Shikra bird is spotted once in a while in months in my Garden 

Indian Parrots had well adapted in my Garden and can be spotted anytime of year

Red vented Bulbul is a common scene in my Garden 

Indian common Myna bird is a commonly seen almost everyday in my Garden 

Jungle Babbler quenching their thirst from earthen pots after humidity has set in the environment post monsoon                                                                                                                          

Indian crows are growing in population as they can be spotted easily in my Garden 

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Garden Affair : Rain brings back the Rain Lilies

 Monsoon season has officially begin in our region the heavy downpour had dropped the temperature making weather moderate.   

The Garden welcomes monsoon rains with plethora of blossoms of Rain Lilies  . The weather turns pleasant after heavy downpour perfect to revisit Gardening humdrums .                             

Rain Lilies can be easily grown with bulbs and requires minimalistic care throughout the year.  These hardy bulbs remains dormant in winter and have grassy leaves appearing  throughout the summer. 

                                                                          

             I had made detailed posts on how to grow Rain lilies from bulbs in my previous post.  

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Garden Affair : Plants that can be grown from a Leaf cutting

 Monsoon is about to reach my city the monsoon season is best to grow perennial  trees and shrubs and also favorable time to  propagate plants due to drop in temperature after downpour. 

While Monsoon season  is favorable to grow  perennial and annual plants the  monsoon  season  is best for propagation of houseplants . I had been propagating  some of the house plants every year in monsoon with their leaves easily  . Here is the list of plants that can be easily grown through their leaves in a well drained fertile soil ;

Snake plants or Sansevieria varieties can be easily grown through a leaf cutting  

                                                                

Z Z plants are one of the most low maintenance plants that can be easily propagated through their leaf                                                                                                                                                         

Kalanchoe or Mother of thousand plant can be grown with single leaf and the best part it can          propagate thousand of plants from a single leaf                                                                                                        

  Jade plants are so easy to grow from their leaf and can be propagated easily in small shallow spaces .

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Garden Affair : Lily season is back

 We had experienced a pre monsoon downpour activities in the last week which had rejuvenated the plants after long scorching summer season. Monsoon is expected to arrive in a week or a fortnite in our region , meanwhile the pre monsoon activities had made weather favorable for lilies to bloom in this pre monsoon season. 

Spider lilies which become dormant in the peak of summer are back with pre monsoon activities. Their  spider like appearance and wafting fragrance makes them most sought after lilies .  

                                                                     

Rain Lilies are always consistent with rain fall activities as they bloom only after rainfall or heavy downpour. These are best to plant in pre monsoon season for a  floral show after post monsoon.                         

Crinum lilies  appear in my garden only after the post monsoon season with vibrant colors and fragrance and since post monsoon season is considered spring that comes after summer season presence of lily varieties in the garden in post monsoon season is worth  waiting for in the monsoon.                                      

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Garden affair : Drought tolerant flowers in my summer Garden

 The summer season in my region is scorching with unbearable  high temperatures for the most part of summer season. It is very assiduous to protect plant from scorching heatwaves , here drought tolerant flowering plants comes to rescue as we can grow them even  in higher  temperature of summer season .

My Garden has been blessed with some perennials that strive through scorching summer and give blooms  even in the absence of proper care and irrigation. 

Here are some of my no care hardy perennials that strive through scorching summer enduring drought conditions and still render blossoms in spite unbearable  summer .

Adenium plants are  drought resistant as they can be grown in extreme summer and their vibrant blooms are enough to put up a show in summer . 

                                                                         

Lantana Blooms bring vibrant colors in summer as they are hardy and drought resistant they are best to grow in summer Garden  . 

                                                                    

Plumeria is the tree that adds charm in summer garden with white and pink flowers wafting their fragrance through the entire summer season. 

                                                                          

             Oleander Plant   is quite heat resistant and drought tolerant for summer .                                                   

Bougainvillea's are the best drought tolerant plants to grow in summer . 

                                                                 

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Garden Affair : Jasmine blooms in Summer

       Summer season is devoid of colorful blooms as presence of hot weather conditions  makes it grueling for plants to survive the heatwaves . Although the summer  season is blessed with presence of fragrant Jasminum blooms which cover Garden with white blooms throughout summer and monsoon season that appears to  to be like a white blanket of flowers throughout summer  on plants wafting their  fragrance in the air.  

                                                    Crape Jasmine Flower

                                                                                Juhi blooms

                                               

                                                                                 

                                                              Day Blooming Jasmine                                                                              

       

                                                                    Arabian Jasmine

                                                                          Crape Jasmine 

Jasmine plants are quite hardy plants to survive any weather conditions they can withstand drought conditions in summer and still fill the plants with blooms. I had shared a detailed post on about Jasmine blooms  in past on how to care Jasmine plants for maximum blooms throughout summer. 

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Garden Affair : World Environment Day

 World Environment Day is observed on 5th June every year, the climate change is real and awareness needs to be spread in the world to save the environment.

The rising temperatures  , depletion of winter period , noticeable decrease of spring season, concurrent heatwaves in summer , loss of biodiversity are some of the downsides we can observe recently due to the climate change. 

                                                                   

What can we do from our sides to protect our environment                                                         

We can start at ground level to protect our environment Saving water and non renewable energy 

- turning of taps , using buckets and mugs for water use                                                                                

Planting trees is one of the most effective measure to save environment especially climate change.

Car pooling is one important step everyone should take  to reduce pollution and recent fuel crisis in world has been alarming to fathom the effects of depletion of fuel in long run.                                   

Promoting recyclable packaging and cutlery to reduce waste management                                          

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