Garden Affair : Monsoon has arrived

 It was one of the harshest  summer this year with consistent heat waves that made it more grueling task to step out in Garden during daytime. The  prime concern in harsh summer is  to nurture plants and protect them from  consistent heat waves .  

The await for monsoon is now over as the Monsoon Rains have finally reached our city. The south west monsoon has reached our region. The heavy downpour has brought down the temperature, the best part of monsoon is  it brings an end to Summer heat waves. 

                                                       

The first bloom of Water lily after Monsoon Downpour 

                                                                     

        The Caladium remains dormant most part of the year and the leaves emerge after the advent of monsoon.                            

Crape  Jasmine blooms prolifically after Rains

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Happy Independence Day

 Its our 78th Independence Day , Monsoon has created havoc in my city. Heavy Downpour from last three consecutive days has brought ruckus in my Garden. The blooms especially annuals which were blooming in the last week have withered off after the downpour. 

The garden has fewer  blooms right now but silver lining is it has more greenery than last few months. 

                                                                             

Rain brings Rain lily blooms 

                                                                       

Portulaca blooms 

Caladiums are outshining the blooms   post rains

                                                                  Rain of Gold plant

Huernia Zebrina 

                                                                                     Stilt spotted at offshore 

Garden Affair : Caladiums

 Caladiums are one of the most looked forward foliage plants among the foliage plant world. They come in plethora of shades and  colors. Caladiums are easy to grow with minimal effort and can be grown easily with their bulbs.  

                                                                 

Caladium Inflorescence

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Foliage Fondness

It is true that Mother nature has given plethora of colors in the flowers still we can often observe  unique shaped leaves  and different colored foliage in trees and plants  which adds color to the garden in the absence of blooms .

Here are some of the Houseplants growing at my space that have attractive foliage and add color to the Garden throughout the year

                                                             Acalypha  Plant leaves                                             

Snow bush leaves 

                                                            CALADIUM LEAVES

                                                                Purple heart Plant

                                                                                 

                                                              Dracena Leaves 

                                                                                

                                                      Cranberry Hibiscus Plant leaves 

                                                                      

                                                                      

Meanwhile an old variety of Periwinkle makes an appearance after a long time 

A Pigeon was spotted from the windowsill of the  Balcony                                                                  

                                   It looks like a storm is approaching the sky

                                                              

Colorful Caladiums

Garden gets color from the flowers within  it, but there are certain plants whose fanciful leaves 

are enough to attract anyone passing by.

One such plant is Caladium. They are summer growing annuals which are grown from the tuber .

                                                                         

                                                        

Caladiums are the tuberous plants where there is no stem in plant and leaves keep on arising for whole hot weather directly from the ground.

                                                                             

They like shady environment ,doesn't do well in sunlight ,leaves grow big in size in semi shade environment.  Tubers are planted in spring ,leaves start arising in early summer .                                                                                                                     

They require regular watering otherwise leaves get wilt when weather turns hot.Although I like every pattern of leaves of caladium but spotted varieties gives so much glitter to your eyes.

                                                                             

In mid summer they come up with a flower which is a 9 inch greenish white spadix covered by a spathe,which fruits a berry with several seeds contained in it.I think should try sowing those seeds next year.   

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