My roof top container garden

Planting a seedling , and watching it to grow to a plant and rewarding us with heavy blooms is a total bliss. Last year I had bought some cosmos seedlings from the nearby nursery and planted them into the containers. I was just clueless about the fact that what color of blooms these plants will bear. The man at the nursery told me that the plant will bear pink and red blooms, so was waiting eagerly for the plants to grow up. Finally the plants started blooming and to my surprise all the plants had just white coloured flowers. I was disappointed a bit. This year again I brought some cosmos seedlings home. This time I didn't ask the man at the nursery about the color of the blooms the plant will bear. I planted them in some containers, added some manure to it and left the plants on their own. However this year it was a total delight to see the pink and the red blooms coming up. Finally I got the colors I wanted to have in my garden. These days the cosmos plants are in full bloom...

It is really a very hectic job to prepare our garden for the fall. A lot of work completed in my garden recently. Preparing the containers, adding compost, visiting the nursery to grab some seedlings, planting them into the containers, adding some mulch to it, and then watching them grow up and finally bloom. I have already prepared my planters. Dug out the soil and added some fresh soil mixed with dried cow dung in 1 : 1 ratio (I rather make layers of soil and compost). I prefer to leave some space in my containers so that I can add some more soil and compost later when the plant starts bearing some buds. Last weekend I visited the plant nursery and bought some seedlings. Asters, geranium, cosmos, snapdragon, verbena, celosia, petunias, vinca, pansy, dianthus, carnations, salvia, gazania, calandula to name a few. Planted all these seedlings into the containers and finally added some mulch ( dried straw and leaves). Now I am just eager to watch them grow and bloom. Below are some ...