Guilty as charged for neglecting my beloved blog.. but my phase of transition continues and i have to plan my time
to tke care of my garden. And when i have to chose b/w gardening and blogging, it makes sense to chose the garden
as i can always make time for blogging it later.. isn’t it? Anyhow coming to the garden, a lot has been going on
with the bulbs sprouting and the seedlings growing and i am having a lovely time anticipating how each planter
will turn out to be. It’s not a secret that i love growing new kinda flowers each year as they keep up the suspense
and feed my experimental soul. This year i am getting very excited about Schizanthus.. if i happen to like it as
much as i love the pictures, be prepared for a flood of schizanthus in my garden next winter. because when i love
something, i love with all my heart soul brain arms legs feet neck hands and ofcourse my garden gloves!!
And hey.. i have tulips this year.. i know i had them last year too but this time my dad went all the way to Jammu
to get tulips for me and i have 60 bulbs in 5 colors!! out of those, i gave away 5 to someone, planted 30, growing
five more for my bhua(aunt) and plan to fill our verandah(patio) downstairs with the rest!
As is the tradition on New Year, i too have some resolutions. Usually i do not make resolutions but this year i
plan to make and stick. To make my work easy, i chose easy-peasy resolutions.. don’t like to be too hard on myself
🙂 So as far as the garden goes.. i have 2 resolutions:
1. I will not stress over anything! Gardening is my hobby and i do it because i enjoy it. i don’t have to prove a
point to someone. So, i chose to break all rules and grow whatever i like whenever i like. actually to think of it, i
have always been doing that but i do get distracted once in a while. i will also not stress out if something doesnt
grow at all or doesnt grow the way i like or gets spoilt due to the weather or something. Ok i will not sit back
and see it dying but after a certain point there really isn’t anything i can do, so why stress? i can always grow
more right? if not this year then next year. oh am i a very hopeful person? guess gardening made me so!!
2. I absolutely promise myself that i will pay more( read much more) attention to my blog. I figured out that it
makes me happy and gives me a high. so why should i kill my own happiness? just typing this up is getting me all
excited and bubbly.
and oh.. i already followed Res 1 today. it had been raining very hard in the past few days which totally soaked my
cups of seedlings( i moved seedlings into individual cups to grow them for hanging baskets) so i jus drained the
water and told them not to die. now if they are willing to live they will though i can imagine standing out in the
freezing weather with me drowning in mucky rain water..ewww i think i will have to be very strong willed to want to
live despie that.. and i know my plants are 🙂
my lil niece has recently been obsessed with the plant tags i make and she totally enjoys pulling them out and at times
interchaning them. at times it also happens so that a single plant is known to have two totally unrelated names all
thanks to her. so i’d sown around 7 kinds of poppy seeds in a single tub creating pizz-slice type divisions. she
very kindly pulled out all the tags and discarded them somewhere. no now i have no clue about what is what and i
think the guesswork games we used to play in school will come handy now!
And hey i noticed that one of the three hyacinth bulbs i had last year was poking its head out of the pot it was
in. And i thought i’d saved none.. the other two i’d grown in water and never saved the bulbs. as far i rem the
re-born bulb flowered purple last year and as purple has been my fav lately i was (i am coming to the “am” soon
) sooooo excited!! then after a few days i saw ANOTHER hyacinth bulb poking its head out close to the original one.
Yessss it multiplied!! and now i have not one but two full-sized hyacinth bulbs. i dug them out and planted in
their own planters. i “am” so excited.. can’t wait for them to flower ( can i ever?? )
wow i just noticed the length of the post so i’ll save the rest of the rambling for tom.
Happy Gardening 🙂
hii,
I like ur blog too much .i think i m a mirror image of u for gardening .means I m also too crazy about gardening and sometimes people around me think i have gone crazy and think that i have this only thing in my life .Well i like ur collection of flower plants.wide collection.that blue flower is interesting .which is that flower name?do u have ranunculus plants too?
lets share our gardening interests….u can reply me to [email protected]
Raj