Earlier this year we bought this Jasmine plant and surprisingly its doing well – thanks to wonderful weather and Alaska Fish Fertilizer. Early this summer I started thinking about propagating the jasmine plant and after a bit of googling found that jasmine plant can be propagated by taking cuttings and rooting them. So I started [...]
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How to propagate Arabian Jasmine aka Jasminum sambac
Posted in experiment, gardening, tagged Arabian Jasmine, Jasminum sambac, propagation, sambac on October 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Winter care for tropical plants
Posted in curry leaf, curry leaf plant, curry leaves, garden blog, gardening, indoor gardening, indoor plant care, tagged banana tree, cfl light, curry leaf plant, jasmine plant, tropical plants, winter care on November 16, 2008 | 14 Comments »
With winter just around the corner its about time to think about winter care for those tropical plants – this winter care tips should work for curry leaf plant, banana tree, jasmine plants. About a year ago I had a blog post on curry leaf plant and had a mention on CFL light bulbs for [...]
Preparing curry plants for winter
Posted in gardening, indoor gardening, indoor plant care, tagged banana plant, curry leaf plant, curry leaves, curry plant, jasmine plant, winter care for curry plant banana plant jasmine plant on September 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Ah Fall is here. Its the nicest time of the year in St. Louis area with warm weather during day time (around 70 F) and breezy nights (in 50s). It is definitely time to prepare your curry plants, and/or container grown banana plant, and/or Jasmine plant for indoors. Here are few things you may want [...]
How to transplant a banana plant/tree?
Posted in garden blog, gardening, tagged banana plant, organic gardening, pups, suckers, transplanting, transplanting banana plant on July 20, 2008 | 5 Comments »
It is about 2 years now since we have been growing this small banana plant on a container – got this from a good friend of us living here in St. Louis. I think this is Hawaiian/tropical banana tree and so far it has survived couple of winters – since it is container grown it [...]
Hydrangea(s) in bloom
Posted in garden blog, gardening, tagged blooms, hydrangea, mobot on July 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Finally after 3 years of planting our Hydrangea(s) have started to bloom. When we had bought it in fall 2005, it had blooms and we had planted them in a spot where it would get morning sunlight. The second year we didn’t see any bloom (though the plant looked very green and healthy). I had [...]
Spring blooms
Posted in gardening, tagged bulbs, daffodils, dandelions, hyacinths, spring blooms, spring gardening, tulips on April 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Here are some pictures from our little flower garden. We have teeny tiny space for gardening and most of the space is planted with perennials. Daffodils: Hyacinths: Kaleidoscope Tulips: No yard is complete without dandelions
Caladium sprouts
Posted in gardening, tagged bulbs, caladium, garden blog, gardening, perennials, spring garden on April 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The other day I had a blog post titled Call me Mr.Brown Thumb. Basically, I was mystified by the caladium tubers after taking them out of the sack as there was no indication on which side should face up when planted or which side should go down. They pretty much looked like a hardened ginger [...]
Call me Mr.Brown Thumb
Posted in gardening, tagged bulbs, caladium, gardening, perennials, spring garden on March 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
About a month or so I bought a sack of caladium bulbs from Costco. With the weather getting better these days I thought, I will get a jump start on spring and grow these indoors before planting them outside. I was a bit puzzled when I took out the bulbs from the sack. I know [...]
Spring is here
Posted in gardening, tagged Alaska fish fertilizer, companion planting, garden blog, garlic, garlic planting, growing garlic, purple glazer garlic, spring planting on March 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ah spring is finally here. Seems like winter has been unusually harsh here in St. Louis this year. I have been wanting to plant my garlic bulbs for some time now before spring arrives and had to wait until the snow from last week melted away. Weather was real nice today here with about 50 [...]
Planning for spring garden
Posted in Misc, bluestoneperennials, gardening, michigan bulb, spring, territorialseed on January 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Ah its that time of the year again – when you are inundated with catalogs on mail from seed/plant/bulb companies. Over the past few years I regularly receive catalogs from Brecks, Michigan Bulbs, Bluestone Perennials, Springhill, and Territorial seed. Based on my personal experience, I like ordering from Bluestone Perennial for perennial plants and Territorial [...]
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