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 : Noida Flower show

 I was recently travelling to Delhi when I got to know about this  Garden Show ongoing in  Noida . I was fortunate to be able to  visit   the flower show . 

                                                                        

The show' Vasant utsav 2026' was organized as  a part of spring  season celebration. It was organized on a large premises exhibiting  stunning  replicas of historic places and figurines made with flowers and wood.

 The center of attraction of show was Giant Temple of kedarnath made from flowers and wood . Kedarnath Temple is a holy Hindu pilgrimage dedicated to Lord Shiva located in Uttarakhand at a height of 3584 meters above sea level. 

                    A Giant Kedarnath Temple sculpture was on 3d display which was  adorned with flowers     

                               I was stunned with the intricate detailing of the temple carved out with  flowers.

   The show displayed some of the huge breathtaking flower towers stationed in premises  which made the whole experience  of fair more commendable.                           

This art work installation gave the calmness and gravitas to the whole chaos in  the surrounding of premises  in the show                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

I was overwhelmed with the display of plethora spring flowers in the show 

                                                                        

 There is another kind of attraction of Dinner plate  Dahlias but this hot pink Cactus Dahlia really stole the show                              

The symmetrical presentation of possibly every variety of spring flower was overwhelming experience 

                                                            

The show was not only about display of flowers and replicas but it was fulfilling every Gardener's fascination and making plant shopping experience  memorable . 

The presentation  of seeds , bulbs , houseplants was enticing for every Gardening enthusiast. 

                                                           

I bid adieu from show and took away some flowering bulbs and lot of cherish able memories of unique Flower show. 

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Garden affair : Adenium season is back

                                                                            

The fluctuating temperature after western disturbances during last week  in the late spring has surprisingly aided in the extension of blooming period  of spring annuals . 

The timing of garden is few and far between when both spring and  summer annuals and perennials  are blooming simultaneously is actually bolt from the blue for this time of year. 

While Adeniums choose early summer or late summer to show up in Garden this fluctuating temperature in Garden has lead to there bloom in the late spring. 

                                                                               

                                                                         

 

   While it is a silver lining for garden to experience spring and summer  blooms at the same time it actually speaks a lot about potential threat relating to climate change  lying in the future .                     

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Garden Affair : World sparrow Day

World sparrow Day is observed on 20th march, the sudden vanishing of sparrows in our region is quite unfortunate. The days are bygone when we could spot sparrows easily in Gardens, parks , verandahs, on roofs and mostly everywhere nearby our environment.

                                                                    

I had already covered in detail the probable   reasons for disappearance of sparrows and what can we do to save sparrows from extinction in my earlier blog. Place check it out if you have missed earlier here                                                                                                                                      

Here I would like to throw some light upon  the organizations which are working dedicatedly   for the welfare of sparrows and  wildlife.                                                                                                                                                    

Nature Forever society                                                                                                                    

Nature forever society is prominent organization working for the protection and awareness of sparrows. They played key role in declaration of World Sparrow Day thereby connecting               organizations from  around the world for the welfare of sparrows.  Their project 'Save our sparrow' has been focused on installing nest boxes , providing natural habitat for the protection and welfare of birds.                                                                                                                                              

Aarambh organization                                                                                                    

Aarambh foundation is working from more than a decade for providing  the shelter to  sparrows. They have been consistent in promoting 'World sparrow day' and spread its importance to the world.                                        

Koodugal trust                                                                                                                                     

An organization working for the welfare of sparrows from more than a decade now , their main focus has been creating sparrow friendly natural habitats and they have built more than 10k nests for the  shelter of sparrows .                                                                                                                                  

Although there are many organizations and NGO's who are working on many levels for the protection and welfare of sparrows. We as a laymen  can make a small or big contribution in supporting the world for protection and welfare of sparrows by either  joining them as a volunteer  and  even showing support in the form of donations to organizations  , buying nests from them  and installing them in your nearby environments.  

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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 bees in 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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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 : 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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