November 15, 2009
Expect the unexpected
Gardening has always my all time favourite hobby. Whether we grow the plants in a garden , allotment, pot or even a window- box, it aims to inspire you to think about what you plant in your garden and most importantly how you water your plants.
I feel indoor plants / indoor flowering plants can make a big impact on any room. Growing plants indoors can also be a good lesson for kids in responsibility and plant care. Ammu ( that’s how I sometimes call my daughter ) will be the first person to water those plants every alternate days
Unfortunately the property in the 6th floor where we are located has got no provision for garden space and we don’t have any option to choose the plant to be grown in the garden. The only option left with us is to use indoor pot plant or window boxes.
When ever we go for weekly shopping first section we visit would be flower section.One reason for that is most supermarkets have flower section near to entrance which always attracts our eyes. Apart from this we are great fan of IKEA where they have a quite big area allocated for gardening.
We always manage to get few plants from Ikea some of those are Dracaena marginata, Livistona routundifola, Pachira Aquatica and chrysanthmums.We are always unlucky with respect to Livistone routundifola which always have short life span even less then one month
The good things about Chrysanthemums is they grow as well indoors as they do outdoors. They need good light and average room temperatures. Other instruction to be followed are
->Do not water them until the soil is completely dry.
->Propagate them by taking cuttings and rooting them in water.
-> Do not put them near a heat source
As we use these flowers to offer to god so Chrysanthemums flower pot is often found in our supermarket shopping list.
It was during the month of April 2009 when we bought one such yellow Chrysanthemums pot plant.As a regular routine all flowers were offered to god.
The pot without any flower was placed in our lounge in one corner for long and Ammu was watering that plant on a regular basis The plant was green even after a month was passed and there were no signs of it becoming dry. I was really surprised to see bright green leaves every day.Even I discussed with my husband about this.
Days passed, month passed and i was watering the pot while watering other plants.
Two weeks before as a routine when I was about to water the plant I could notice
buds.I was so happy to see those flower buds after 8 month.Now the flower has blossomed and it really looks great.It was real surprise as the max this Chrysanthemums last would be one month.
Here is the snap which was taken two weeks before
And this one is taken today….
So always expect the unexpected .
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I feel indoor plants / indoor flowering plants can make a big impact on any room. Growing plants indoors can also be a good lesson for kids in responsibility and plant care. Ammu ( that’s how I sometimes call my daughter ) will be the first person to water those plants every alternate days
Unfortunately the property in the 6th floor where we are located has got no provision for garden space and we don’t have any option to choose the plant to be grown in the garden. The only option left with us is to use indoor pot plant or window boxes.
When ever we go for weekly shopping first section we visit would be flower section.One reason for that is most supermarkets have flower section near to entrance which always attracts our eyes. Apart from this we are great fan of IKEA where they have a quite big area allocated for gardening.
We always manage to get few plants from Ikea some of those are Dracaena marginata, Livistona routundifola, Pachira Aquatica and chrysanthmums.We are always unlucky with respect to Livistone routundifola which always have short life span even less then one month
The good things about Chrysanthemums is they grow as well indoors as they do outdoors. They need good light and average room temperatures. Other instruction to be followed are
->Do not water them until the soil is completely dry.
->Propagate them by taking cuttings and rooting them in water.
-> Do not put them near a heat source
As we use these flowers to offer to god so Chrysanthemums flower pot is often found in our supermarket shopping list.
It was during the month of April 2009 when we bought one such yellow Chrysanthemums pot plant.As a regular routine all flowers were offered to god.
The pot without any flower was placed in our lounge in one corner for long and Ammu was watering that plant on a regular basis The plant was green even after a month was passed and there were no signs of it becoming dry. I was really surprised to see bright green leaves every day.Even I discussed with my husband about this.
Days passed, month passed and i was watering the pot while watering other plants.
Two weeks before as a routine when I was about to water the plant I could notice
buds.I was so happy to see those flower buds after 8 month.Now the flower has blossomed and it really looks great.It was real surprise as the max this Chrysanthemums last would be one month.
Here is the snap which was taken two weeks before
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And this one is taken today….
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So always expect the unexpected .
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