Refurbishing after a dreadful heatwave

This summer was the hottest on record so far (don't they say that every year?). And to make matters worse for our plants, we went on a long holiday. This subjected them to dry and hot winds, without receiving any water. Sadly, we lost about 50% of our plants.

Not wanting to cause further damager, we waited for the monsoon to arrive before we shopped for new plants. Yesterday was Plant Shopping Day!

We'd gone with a long list of pots to fill. And we've come back with a lot of plants! 

I'll let the pictures do the talking for this blog post.

Hibiscus

Pentas

Philondendron Xanadu

Crepe Myrtle

Lemonia

Plumbago

Texas Purple Sage

Ruellia and Evolvulus Blue Daze

Aralia, Golden Money Plant, Pearl & Jade Money Plant, Neon Money Plant, Aglaonema

Song of India and others

Croton and others

Picking up the threads of gardening - 1

My last post was more than 2 years ago (I'm writing this in Oct'23). Not to say that we did not have plants during that time, it was more the fact that I did not have the mindspace to pick up the laptop over the weekend as well. 

So let's recap the last 2 years of our balcony garden, before we move onto our new balcony garden! As always, the posts are published according to the date the plants were bought.

The first thing to arrive after we bought the first set of plants, was a bonsai for Anshuman's birthday from my parents. It's a beautful looking plant! 

Ficus bonsai

Then for some unknown reason, we ordered a big loot from Nurserylive. This order was a big pain as they stalled the delivery for many weeks and communicated nothing to us. Then suddenly, 8 weeks later they came back to life and shipped everything. These are in 10 colourful plastic pots and we hope to brighten up our drawing room balcony with them.

As we get no sun at all, we picked plants that do well even without sunshine. Also, our plant selection consisted of only perrenials. This ensures that we do not have to do anything to maintain them, which is great because we have no tools.

Crotons, Spider Palm

Pandanus

Meanwhile, we also ordered some plants from Ugaoo because we were annoyed with Nurserylive. These were indoor plants.

Aglaonema Red, Money plant, Stromanthe Triostar plant

Snake plant

More about the next set of plants in the next post!