I am not sure why I didn’t decide to have houseplants in my hometown earlier when I have had a beautiful south-facing window in my bedroom. I suppose it was due to uncertainty of how long we would be staying here and when we would be going back to our work city. It’s still uncertain but at least now I […]
Fascinating Plants – #1
One of the things about plants that fascinates me is how some plants smell or taste like something else or are aromatic in general. How standing by a plant or tree and taking a long breathe fills you with spicy aroma. How crushing a leaf or flower between your fingers gives whiff of sweet scents. There are other parts of […]
A Little About Houseplants
I love houseplants. But, I always felt that I lacked the knack of keeping them alive. Somehow, no matter how sturdier the garden center claimed a houseplant to be, sooner or later it died on me. The plant started to droop or drop all of its leaves one by one and eventually died. I was particularly bad at keeping succulents, […]
Plant Growing Series
When I started growing vegetable and flower plants from seeds, it took me quality time to look things up on internet from different sources to understand how do it properly for different plants based on Indian seasons. The information were all scattered or just too unnecessarily complex for beginners. So, after gaining some experience, I wanted to put whatever I […]
A heartfelt love for flowers
I have always loved flowers. But, several years back, if you had asked me which flower was Calendula or Zinnia, I wouldn’t have been able to tell. I loved stumbling across different flower variety wherever I went and I am glad that I almost always used to photograph them. Going through my old photograph collection makes me realise how obsessed I was […]
Trees in Bangalore
It is almost impossible to live in Bangalore and not notice the abundance of trees, even though there is a sharp decline in tree cover all across the city. I have inherited love for trees (or love for Nature really) from my mother, so when I asked her what it was that she liked about Bangalore the most, her answer […]