Indoor plants

After starting our plant collection on 1st-vaccine-day-for-Pallavi, we thought we could take on more gardening resonsibility. Mind you, this was after we had RESOLVED to not have any plants for the next 6 months. After we had packed all our gardening stuff and put it in storage. So much for resolutions!

So we decided to head out to a nursery and get some indoor plants. We wanted no-fuss, no-dig plants for indoors only; nothing else. Or so we told ourselves.

When we got to Durga Plant Nursery, we were astounded by the sheer volume of plants they had! We didn't have a list, so we walked around to see what we liked. And as usual, we had to do the dog-toxicity test for each plant. Finally we settled on these.

Crotons - They are set in the corner of our bedroom, near the glass door. They get bright light throughout the day and direct evening sunlight.

Croton

Cordyline - This one has lovely maroon leaves. The new leaves are bright green in colour. The Cordyline has been placed to brighten up one of our home office.

Cordyline

Chilli - We wanted to have some basic veggie plants. Chilli is a good no-fuss plant to start with. The nursery-man literally pulled it out of the ground and gave it to us for free. I had to give it a bit of TLC for it to survive the transplantation shock.

Chilli

Curry leaf - Try as we might, we could not find curry leaves in any grocery shop (we realised later that our society had a huge curry leaf tree going in it's orchard!). So we thought we will buy one and see how it goes. We had killed the previous one we bought in Ahmedabad, so my hopes are not high with this one.

Curry leaf