Friday, November 19, 2010

my garden pictures...

Okay ...i have a garden in the middle of Delhi and i am not a millionaire .... i don't live in a huge bungalow surrounded by a lush garden for your kind information . It is a small apartment located in a government owned campus . I am on the ground floor and luckily there is open garden space both in the front and back . There is a huge drumstick tree , a nice lemon tree loaded with lemons right now , a curry patta tree , a jamun tree both in the front and back , a bael tree and a chakotra ( grapefruit ) tree adorning my garden . Apart from this there is a mehendi fence interrupted with paarijat bushels and a very fragrant variety of jasmine too . I keep planting some seasonal flowers and vegetables but there is no set layout and the overall look is like an unkempt patch of greenery .... here are a few glimpses....

                                                                          the Araucaria  ....


                                                                  Pink Abutilon .........


                                                    Violet creeper ( railway creeper )...

 

 Right side of the garden during rains........right behind the papaya tree the curry patta and lemon tree are jostling for space ........



Left side of the garden .........you can see the plants battered by rains , sunflowers can be seen which were in the last lap of their growth span , they are huge sunflowers ( 6-7 inch diameter ) rains made it difficult for them ... In this picture only a few sunflower plants have been left . I am posting a riot of sunflowers in the later part of this post ....scrawl down...... Luckily i have saved a few seeds.


                                                  The papaya trees about a month ago...




 Some potted greenery..................

 
                                                          Growing almost wild.......


                               These lilies look like two shining stars to me......... almost wild again...


A small rock garden i tried to construct , still needs some work....



Mogra during the rains.........last lap of the mogra season.................


                                                         Isn't it wild ....well almost....


                                                                Some more abutilons....


                                                          A branch of lemons in the sunshine........


             The Gomphrenas i uprooted last week and saved the bright colored flowers for dry decorations...


                                                                          Close up....


                                                           One more shot of the Araucaria...


                                   And now ........my happy sunflowers .........attracting lots of bees....

                                                           
                                                                  The buds coming up.......


                                                                       Young flowers.......


                                                            Growing neatly in a row......


                                                      Drooping with it's own weight....


                                                         Don't they look absolutely happy........

 Wait for some other happy looking flowers in the next post ............these were all my summer flowers and the overdrive of the rainy season ...... some quite winter things next time.....

A few of my readers and friends have been asking for my garden pictures ....... i want to remind you my friends...that , this is a lazy woman's garden and the pictures have been uploaded in a lazy frenzy.....if there is something like that .............. but the pictures made me happy in the middle of the night and hope they will do the same to you too......... cheers !!!