Building with uncertainties
The garden this year has gone through lot of uncertainties. Some of you who regularly have seen my blogs must be knowing that the road in front of our society was getting renovated making it a 100ft road and at a particular time, it felt like, the entire area in the front would be taken for the expansion. However, after several months of work, it appeared, they are leaving this area, but the road is exactly in front of our gate. Keeping the safety in view, our society thought, they would build another road through this area, where my pots are kept. So from roof top, these pots came here, and then they had a undecided future amid which, I decided to continue to build for winter. It's so bad that it takes so much time to have something conclusive, but that is how things work in reality.
This circular patch was solely built few years back for beautification during winter, but since the society was not undecided to take the road through this, they did not give any interest to build this. So I took everything in my hands, and decided to plant here as well. At the worst case, they will be destroyed, but if that does not happen, we will experience some joy in the winter at least.
So this is how it started, I planted some saplings for the circular patch to reduce cost and once they grew, they were planted in the outer circle. And then for my pots, I got some french inca and Zinnia saplings from the nursery.
The person asked for some tips and I happily paid a little to him, it's because of their hard work, we get these plants. They don't get a lot of money as salary, but still they are very much dedicated for their work which I like a lot.
Some fresh Orchid procured by them for sell, when I went to get my saplings, I captured them for my memory lane, you can see my saplings kept besides them. Flowers always give us joy, isn't it ?
I asked for few Zinnia saplings, but seems the person was happy with the tips and gave a lot of them.
I always plant these very small saplings in a pot first, allow them to grow a little bigger and then take it to the pots.
Once I feel, they are strong enough to survive, they go to their destination.
So with almost two months of care, they have shaped up well this time.
Only sea weed and bone meal fertilizer ( both organic) have been used so far. From experience I have seen plants flower for long, if organic food is used.
Unfortunately we have a mutant variety of predators coming from the other side of the wall who can eat one plant in a day. And they got a nice home in the Drumstick plant. I never use chemical fertilizers, but to prevent these predators, I had to spray some poison on top of all the plants nearby. At least the soil is mostly fed with organic food.
You can see the big plant above, they have make a feast of this plant three times, and I am in a continuous fight with them. Gardening is so much fun, even though, hard.
So I went to their source with the gardener and asked him to cut their routes.
And we have a company taking care of insecticides, every week, so given instructions to them to spray some tough medicine across the walls.
Don't know why I have so much passion for these plants, anyone hurting my plants affects my mood badly. And now let me show you some very early results :
Watch this flower closely, a pink brick patter petals - nature is amazing. The joy of feeling the beauty of this justifies all the hard work. This was my first attempt to plant Zinnia, next time you will see a lot of them (of course if this patch stays).
A lot of people appreciate my work, but then there are some who ask me why I take so much pain at this age. Passion does not stop, does it ? At least till I am capable, I don't think, I can stop loving plants.
Unfortunately I can't stop some people taking away these flowers, fixing the CC TV is the only way to show them proof and fight with them, but that's still not done. Trying to get it fixed ASAP, but certainly feels excited to have some nice results in coming days, will post more about them.
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