Garden Affair : Warm spring and absence of bees

 This year would be remembered as one of the warmest spring in the decades. The spring annuals are already withering with rising temperature which has also affected  the ecological balance as the adverse effect can be seen with the absence of butterflies and bees from spring garden. 

          These are the few glimpses from spring from past years when bees and butterflies were spotted hovering over the flowers.

                                                                    

                                                                        

We had reached almost at the end of spring season this year with rising temperatures and presence of bees and butterflies is almost negligible this spring. The possible reasons of vanishing of spring is still  uncertain  to me but the warmer and shorter winter period that induced  warmer spring season     could be one of the reasons for their non survival till spring season.                                                                                                                 

The presence of bees and butterflies in spring is prominent as they are pollinators to ensure production of seeds, fruits and flowers vital to maintain ecological balance. I had already discussed the vitality of presence of bees and bugs in  Importance of bees and ladybugs in garden   post.                                                             

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Warm spring

 The soaring temperature in the mid spring season is alarming with fear of Global warming and unprecedented climate change now becoming a  reality.  

The raising temperature had affected my Garden as  well as early summer blooms are already blooming along with spring flowers. 

                        Petunias are blooming aside summer bloomers Vinca and Plumbago in spring is not we see every year.             

I have always felt growing Single flowered Dahlia is more rewarding than  Giant Dahlias 

                                                         

             The unusual rise in temperatures in spring has affected spring blooming annuals in  adverse manner 

                    Buttercup and other bulbous blooms are out of shape due to sharp rise in temperatures                       

 

Meanwhile Garden is busting with colors of spring , Although the current changes in climate change scenario is indicating towards shorter period of spring season in coming years. 

                                                                                                                 

                                                              

                                                                          

                                   

                                                                                    

                                                           

                                                            

Summers are already around the corner poor Stilts have to travel in city for  quenching of water 

                                          Stilts looking for water            

                                                                           

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 . 
 

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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.                                          

                                                                 

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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 .                                     

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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 

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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

                                                

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. 

                                                         

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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.                                                                                                        

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Garden Affair : Growing Edible Flowering plants for upcoming spring season

Where spring seems far and dubious with uncertainty of winter weather some of the spring flowers that are appreciated for adding vibrant colors in spring season after the end of long dreary winter season are also surprisingly edible by nature . While there are innumerable spring annuals that can be added as an ingredient or placed as garnishing  on food these below are most popular ones that are rewarding to grow for  spring show.  

     Violas

 

Nasturtium                                                                 

Marigolds and Calendulas 

                                                   

                                                

Dianthus

                                                          

Roses

                                                             

                                                                        

These are one of the popular spring annuals grown for dual purpose of adding colors to the spring garden and also adding flavor to your favorite cuisine. These are added in salads, used in  preparing jams, used in breads and added to change color of  food in many cuisines.

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Garden Affair : Winter Days and Garden

 Winter has been unpredictable this year with very warm December  and contradictory January starting on a note with hard hitting cold wave . Now when we are into the second fortnight of January temperature has risen and few of the early spring annuals are already showing up blooms. The talks regarding Global warming seems becoming reality. 

                                       I would had never expected Schzianthus blooming in January

Petunias are already in full  bloom in January this year

Snapdragons blooming in January is surprising             

If the present  weather  condition will persist Spring  season seems to be coming early this year.                   

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