Jade in Kokedama... a perfect gift than flowers..

Yesterday I was in super market with my friend to pick some flowers to my another friend (for their house warming ceremony). As I was picking flowers my friend just looked at me and said, why do you want to give these cut flowers where as you can pick these plant which will be forever.. I looked at him and I just picked some Jade plant and Made these two beautiful kokedama out of it.

I made one as tabletop for their living rom and another as string garden new their porch.. They loved it totally. This happened 6 months back and still the plant is doing well..

Then I realized, if you can gift your friends a plant you are not only giving a plant but you are encouraging having green in their small space.

Between Jade is considered as Money plant in Fengshui, If you go to any Chinese store you can see them near the entry way.

Happy Gardening

Choyee

Garden Accents, from my collection>>

I love decorating my garden not only from plants but yes with other outdoor accents, I am crazy bt these wind chimes, I have few picture right will upload some more from my collection. Its a delight every evening when it makes a slight and mild music.

Hope you like it :)

Everytime wind blows, this biddy dances (shakes it head) with the tune of the chime

This left one, make absolute mind blowing sound, love it!!

Yeah, I love rooster, specially this one, picked it for very cheap from street vendor

My little assistance, who does nothing but stare at me all the time ;)

This one is a solar, ever night the insect glows>>

My first ever wind chime, it got broke but fixed it, still going strong and making amazing sound

It's so adorable, don't you think?

I picked it from New Delhi

Some from fab India and other lamp holders from Old Delhi

She wants to be in the middle always

Yeah, I do have water Garden as you know from my previous post

More to come stay tuned

Happy Gardening

Choyee

Waste bottles???

One weekend I was free, so I headed straight to the near by nursery Varitey Growers, By seeing their collection I couldn't stop buying most variety or plants and herbs. When I came back I realise I dont have much container... Darnnn I cant go back again and spend money on containers, I looked around and this what i found TaDa

I gather all the materials and tools to get started.

Ready to get sprayed

Yeah, I am ready, bring it on!!!

Nailed it completely in to the wall

The second one goes next, I am up

At last I am ready, bring the plants in

And with CoKe Bottles, I made two set (yes I am addicted to Coke Zero). One for indoor and another for outdoor herb garden>>

All set to dry

I am the indoor one..

My inverted coke vertical herb garden

Now The final showdown of Indoor>>

So If you are lazy and dont want to spend money on those expensive container in the store then get start  and be creative, make use of every thing around and every inch of space for gardening

Hope you like it

Happy Gardening
Choyee

Aah it's fall.. but still it's time to Garden..

As fall approaches, it's time to redo our garden, bring few of plants inside and build a greenhouse. But wait there are other DIY's which will not stop you with gardening..

1. Miniature or table top gardening
2. String Gardening or kokedama in string
3 Vertical Gardening with waste bottles
4. Hydroponics with Wine bottles
5. Glass garden or terraium
6. Gardening with sea shells
7. And lastly container gardening with any container..

I am going to take each individually and post some DIY I came across and tried which is still doing great.

Stay tuned.. I am finally back :)

Happy Gardening
Choyee

Apologies..

I was away for few days from the blog. Today i realized many of the picture in my blog earlier were not showing up when they are still uploaded. Something got goofed up.. Anyway updated each and every post personally...

My next post soon on
Fengshui Garden,
Jade Kokedama - a perfect gift than flowers and
The Hydrangeas (as the spring on the way)

Happy Gardening
Choyee

Glass Garden - Terrarium

Hmmm this is something new i tried after kokedama. (Yes i went to Sprout Home to learn this one, you can say the young ladies are experts there) 

Easy to do but designing, materials and the plant to chose is more important. I tried with succulents and some tropical plants though.

My first terrariums @ sprout home

Later My experiment

This one is a minature, did in a wine glass

Happy Gardening
Choyee

Ikebana @ Lalbagh Flower show

Ikebana (生け花, "living flowers") is the Japanese art of flower arrangement, also known as kadō (花道, the "way of flowers")

"Ikebana" is from the Japanese ikeru (生ける, "keep alive, arrange flowers, living") and hana (花, "flower"). Possible translations include "giving life to flowers" and "arranging flowers" - Wikipedia

A collection of ikebana presented by bangalore ladies @ lalbagh FLower show on 26th Jan 2012...

Happy Gardening

Choyee