And so we moved again!
This time up North, to Chandigarh. From the gardening aspect, it's going to be interesting. Ahmedabad was hot and dry for the most part, whereas Chandigarh gets 4 well defined seasons in their full intensity. So we'll have a cool Spring, hot and dry Summer, rainy Monsoon and cold Winters. This gives us a lot of opportunities to try growing different things during each season.
We don't have as much space as terrace garden though. At the moment its just two 4x6 blaconies. None of these balconies get any direct sunlight, except for 1-2 hours in the afternoon. That's the worst kind of sun really, something that I'm sure the plants can do without!
As this is a tempory accomodation for a few months, we didn't want to start a garden. We thought we could easily manage without plants for these months. So we packed up all our gardening gear and put it in storage. How little we know ourselves 😁 Because the gardening bug hit us within a month of being here! And in the most unlikely of the places.
We had gone to get a Covid vaccine shot. While driving out from the hospital, we took an inside route and stumbled on a virtual nursery forest! It had huge trees and look liked a forest, yet it was a nursery. Turns out that it was the government nursery, which catered more for mass plantations. Anyway, once we saw it, we had to stop and look around. And when a gardener looks, they almost always buy.
This was our first plant. It is called a Shrimp plant because of the shape of it's flowers. It is doing well on the balcony, thought droops on really hot days. The flowers last for almost a month before dying. The plant tends to become leggy, so requires a trim from time to time.
Looking forward to more plants in the balcony :)
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