My roof top container garden

Every year during monsoon, Our local nurseries organize a exhibition of different kinds of plants. A year ago I came across a plant with beautiful blooms. Later after searching for proper name of the plant in internet, i discovered that the plant is Ipomoea Cairica most commonly known as the Railway creeper. The plant has wonderful purple colored blooms. These days this plant seems to be very happy and is rewarding me with numerous blooms. Below are some of the snaps from my garden. This plant requires very little attentions and rewards heavily with blooms. Railway Creeper Railway Creeper Railway Creeper During the same year I also came across another plant. This plant had somewhat shredded green leaves with red blooms on it. It is fun watching these flowers bloom in the morning and die in the afternoon. For the first time I came across this plant I found it in a garden. But since the garden was restricted I couldn't collect seeds or stem cutting to propagate...

Hello Readers, The winters have gone in our place and now its the right time to set the garden for the summer. The journey of my winter garden seems to have reached its end. I have collected a plenty of seeds and have stored them in hope of reviving my winter garden from the dead next season. This time for the summer i have planted some bulbs. My hunt for the bulbs started somewhere around January. I visited the local gardens in search of the treasures they had in store for me to set up my bulb garden for the summer. I ended up buying the bulbs of varies types of lilies, curcuma, hedychium, eucharis, crinum lily, spider lily, calla lily, amaryllis, gloriosa lily, lycoris lily, kaempferia and nerine lily. I visited some more websites and learnt that gloxinia bulbs can also be planted for the summer, hence i ordered a pair of gloxinia for my garden from an online store. hence i landed up with a wide range of bulbs waiting to be planted in my garden. I prepared my pots and planted th...