My roof top container garden

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 manu...

 It was a hard time, waiting for my fall garden to be in full bloom. It's almost a month since I had planted the seedlings , in between I had updated regarding my fall garden. At that time, the plants had just matured and there where buds on them. This time, when I visited my home, I was just stunned by the huge display of the flowers the plants had put on. Well it's just the beginning waiting for lot more blooms this year. The dianthus plants had come up with variety of colors of blooms, ranging from red , pink, white to mixture of all these. It just took my breath away. The nasturtium was also looking quite happy, though the color is very common, the shape of the leaves attracts me more , hence I end up adding them to my fall garden. Then comes the favourite snapdragon. The more I look at it, the more I fall in love with it. The Phlox seems to be no less this year. Clusters of beautiful flowers are the centre of attr...

A very happy New year to all my readers... Here comes a new year, 2016 with all New seasons. Even my plants seems to welcome this year warmly. These days my chrysenthemum plants are on full display. The mums seems to be healthy and growing. I do not want to write much, let the pics do the rest on behalf of me.... Hope you enjoyed the post. I will be back soon. Till then stay healthy and fit. Happy gardening. All your valuable comments are appreciated. Thanks!