My roof top container garden

Hi everyone! Welcome back to my blog. This time I have added two new adeniums and a Magnolia Alba to my garden. During my last visit to the local plant store, I was totally taken up by the adeniums they had for sale. I have bought one with red flowers and the other one has white blooms. While buying the adeniums I suddenly came across a mysterious plant with beautiful fragrant flowers. I learned from the owner that it is a Magnolia Alba. I ended up buying the Magnolia Alba too. I already have two adenium plants in my garden. Since I have been growing these plants in my garden for years...I am familiar with the growing conditions that suits best for these plants. I would like to briefly go through some of the tips that i have been using to grow these wonderful adeniums. Soil : The adeniums grow in a kind of coarse mixed soil. I have added sand to the normal soil along with some compost and vermicompost. The soil should be able to drain the excess water out. These plants

Welcome back readers! In the quest of adding more color to my garden, recently I have acquired two Azalea plants. Azaleas are a bit difficult growers. There are certain things that needs to be taken care of if we add Azaleas to our garden. The first and the foremost requirement of an Azalea plant is the type and quality of potting mix that is being used to grow these plants. I went through a number sites and browsed various pages so as to conclude on the use of the best potting mix required for these plants. Last year I had killed one of my Azalea by choking its root in a poor quality soil. The characteristics that the potting mix should have is it most be porous so as to circulate enough air in between the  roots and provide good drainage to the excessive water, at the same time the soil should be able to store enough moisture. The soil must have enough organic matter. The potting mix that I have used is half part of soil and one part each vermicompost, compost, cow dung manure,