Gardening

Tabebuia Rosea – Pink Trumpet Tree – Basant Rani – Rosy Trumpet Tree

Tabebuia Rosea is also known as the Pink Trumpet Tree, Pink poui, Pink tecoma, Rosy trumpet tree.  In Hindi this…

Neem Tree

In Mysore, we lived in a building, which was facing the Ashwatha/Peepal-Neem and Navagraha temple for 20 years.  The Peepal…

Tabebuia Aurea – Yellow Trumpet Tree

Come February and Bangalore looks its best with the flowering trees bursting with blooms blanketing the city with a riot…

White Popinac Tree

This tree with its white flowers is planted for ornamental purposes as well as for firewood and livestock feed.   White Popinac…

Christmas tree

When dad used to recollect his boyhood days spent on his grandfather's estate called “Sane hidlu/incessant rain” in Chikkamagalur, he…

Re-Potting Plants

Re-potting of plants becomes essential when the plant outgrows the pot that it was growing in.  The pots that needs…

Tips for growing Orchids

Orchids are slow groiwng pernnial herbs and their cultivation is simple as compared to other plants since their requirements are…

Banni Tree

The botanical name of this tree is Prosopis spicigera. In Sanskrit it is known as Shami Vruksha. Banni tree is…

Preparing Moss Grass Stem

Moss grass stem is very useful to support climbing plants, the roots will be able cling on to the moss…

Passion Flower – Passiflora Disemma

  Plant Summary: The name of the flower Passion Flower - Passiflora Disemma is derived from the Passion of  Christ…

Grow Curry Leaves Tree

I remember running around Curry leaf trees at my Mama’s(Uncle) farm in North Karnataka. He had grown these trees in…