It's time! Winter has finally set
in, and, as I am typing this, it's raining. This rain will drop the temperature
further, bringing in more cold and fog. Just today, I managed to get in a
couple of plants to celebrate the winter season better. The chrysanthemums, I
shared in the last post, are profusely blooming these days, giving a delightful
view of the blooms, white and orange chrysanthemums blooming in a few of my
pots, and believe me, when I say, it's breathtaking. I can only imagine seeing
these beautiful plants blooming on a piece of land.
Anyways, back to my newest
plants, this time around, I decided to lay my hands on a few marigolds - hybrid
ones, the ones, which bear huge blooms, with the plant height remaining under a
feet. The regular ones, which, I've seen reaching more than 6 feet (remember, I did a post on
one of my biggest marigold plants, one that reached 82 inches in height.) In
case you'd like to revisit it again, here it is.
This is the first time, I've
bought marigold plants. Otherwise, I've been growing marigold plants from seeds
that I get from dried flowers in garlands we get. And believe me, it's pretty
easy growing marigolds from these seeds. As I visited the plant seller, I was
mesmerized by the vivid colours of the marigold blooms, I saw. I bought the
plants, four of them, in different shades of yellow to orange and a dark red
one as well.
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All four marigold plants.
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The maroon marigold bloom. Looks pretty nice, right?
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One of the shades of the yellow marigold.
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The orange marigold bloom.
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The maroon marigold plant, shot while I was planting it in the pot.
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Let's take a
look at the plants. I've transferred these to pots, and I hope the rain will
help the plants grow and stabilize pretty well with the new conditions, and I
hope, the plants will add colours to my garden, which, already is a quite
colourful with the chrysanthemums blooming completely. But, these plants, will
take some time growing and stabilizing in the new conditions, and while the mums
will put an end to their yearly show in a couple of weeks, the marigolds will
continue blooming, playing partners to dahlias and calendulas, which I'll be
getting in the coming weeks.
Apart from
the marigolds, I have got a couple of hybrid miniature roses, that too, for the
first time. We'll talk about them in the next post, in the coming week. Till
then keep trying and HAPPY GARDENING!
Good to see four different shades of the same flower. I had recently bought myself a rectangular pot, filled it up with mud and planted a few seeds of dhania. I got 3 inch tall coriander now.
ReplyDeleteThe only problem,i hate to cut it to even use.
That's the toughest work mom ever gave me!
You're right, Manogna, it pinches when you plant something, nourish it and then you're supposed to kill it. But then, that's the way of life. Something goes off, new things come in. Keep up the good work.
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