In the previous blogs, I had mentioned the challenges we were facing with watering the plants daily. It requires too much effort to water individual pots, which is why most of our plants died. Sometime they received too much attention (water) and sometime too little. Plus, it made life difficult for us if we wanted to go on a holiday. While friends can turn on the tap, it's a big ask to get them to spend 30 mins watering each pot.
Anyway, with all that sorted, we let our small collection of plants flourish. I'll let the pictures do all the talking!
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| Unknown |
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| Bougainviillea |
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| Potato plants |
Of course, where there is water, there are weeds. This plant came up in the Chikoo tree pot by itself. I'm letting it live as it has nice flowers and is a ground cover.
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| Common Purslane |
We also bought some new plants, now that we can look after them. The yellow flowering plant is called Tecoma. It is shrub that produces trumpet shaped flowers. It grows in abundance in Ahmedabad, so should be alright throughout the year without demanding too much.
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| Tecoma |
I also saw a Tibouchina. It was more expensive than the other plants, but I hope that it wll tie our two gardens together - Melbourne and Ahmedabad. It looks as lovely as ever, with purple flowers and hairy green leaves.
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| Tibouchina |
