Garden affair : Portulacas in my Balcony

 

Its Monsoon season the temperature had dropped significantly and garden is in a gradual process  of revival thereby reappearance of   blooms can be spotted after long summer .  

           Portulaca or  9'0 clock as it is known popularly blooms profusely after Monsoon downpour . These are drought resistant plants and blooms in profusion of colors  after advent of monsoon season and blooming remains till Autumn.                                       

                                                                                        

Growing method and care                                                                    Portulaca  plants are easy to grow as they are drought resistant plants they can withstand extreme weather conditions . They can be easily grown through stem cuttings , there root formation is more quicker than any other flowering perennial and annual.                                                                      

                                                                             

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Garden Affair : Portulaca glory in the balcony

 Garden is exuberant and green  after the extended  monsoon, my balcony is filled with colorful blooms of portulaca and purslane. 

                                                              

   

                                                                       

Portulaca are easy to grow hardy plants, they survive throughout the year with blooming for most of the part of the year. They can be easily grown anywhere irrespective of pots and spaces. 

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Garden Affair : Portulaca is back

 Monsoon season  in our city has taken a back phase where we are  not seeing rains from last week as  usually Monsoon   phase is observed in a manner where we see the monsoon trough  line moving in the country and covering all the states of India. While plants are still in revival phase after experiencing worst summer of the decade , the monsoon blooms Portulaca are blooming back after being dormant for  months . 

                                                              

It is the time for link up party Garden Affair where we can share posts related to Gardening, Nature and birds. The link up party will be open for a week starting from Sunday.   

                                                

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Monsoon arrival in the city

 Its raining cats and dogs , the monsoon onset with heavy downpour has created a ruckus in northern part of India. While the condition in my city is stable for now and the concurrent rains has actually worked good for garden. 

Thereby  garden is gaining greenery with rains, some of the cotyledons are into blooms early after the heavy downpour of last week.

                        I am thrilled to see mango blooming after the monsoon rains so  there will be third time harvest this year.                                                              

                  It is enthralling to see blooms of Portulaca , Lemonia back after break in summer season. 

                                                            

                                                                   

Rain brings Rain lily to blooms 

                                                                        

                                                              

(From top : Vinca , Crape Jasmine, Hibiscus, Spider Lily)

Aquatic blooms revive with downpour

(Water Hyacinth, Water Lily )

ZINNIAS

Meanwhile a Indian Great Egret was spotted near Lake 

                                                                 

After a closer look I noticed a green mark over the eyes which was extended till its beak and after searching about it I was surprised to know that this green  lore is a effect that develops on Great Egret when there breeding starts.                                                                                                       

Independence Day.

 Today is India's Independence day. My Garden is filled with exuberant energy and colors after monsoon rains. 

                                            Rutteya Fruticosa

                                             

                                                                   Purslane 

                                                                                                          

                                                            Periwinkle blooms

                                                                              

                                                         

                                                                        Rain Lilies

                                                                 

                                                                      

                                                                       

                                                                   Crinum lily

                                                                  

                                                                          Zinnias

                                                                              

                             

                                                                  Lantanas

                                                         

Water Lily

                                                                       Dreary sky

                                                                         

                                                      

                                     Indian Myna 

                                                 

                                                 

                                     Happy Independence day !      

Garden Affair : Purslane in the balcony

 Monsoon has picked up pace in our city , weather has cooled down and plants are having a gala time after long persistent summer this year. This year my balcony space is ornamented with blooms of purslane and portulacas . 

                                                    

                                                                 

                                                                            

                                                              

It is the time for link up party Garden Affair where you can share posts related with Gardening, Nature and birds . The link up party will remain open for a week starting from Saturday. 

                                                                                    

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Monsoon spell

 Monsoon Rain has been decrement in our region so far , however the hindrance to heat wave conditions after  arrival of monsoon has brought down the temperature and aided in bringing back greenery to  garden .  

                                                             Texas sage

                                                                      

                                                                     

                                             Purslane and Portulaca 

                                                                        

                                                        Balsam blooming

                                                                    

When there is a rain there comes rain lily

                                                                         

              Vinca flowers drenched in the Rain 

                                                                      

                                                       

                                                                             

From left : Bleeding heart, Plumeria , Crepe myrtle

                                                                        Morning glory     

                                                                           Black capped chikadee  spotted

                                                                       When you wake up to a scene like  this