My Ramblings..: 2015

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

OTG : My terrace painted red all over again..

Tomato chutney with onions in making :) 3 days back.

More tomatoes and a few chillies yesterday..

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

OTG Diaries : Gongura ..

Last week : Gongura leaves freshly plucked from terrace garden getting ready for chutney..

OTG diaries : Daal+Tamatar (tomato pappu) today

Plucked some tomatoes (Noticed two nice tomatoes were tasted by a squirrel? :-( ) anyways.

Sunday, September 20, 2015

21/09/2015 - Straight from Terrace Garden.

Today's produce from my OTG.. I will make daal+palak (palakoora pappu), tomato chutney and bhindi+beans chaaru (rasam) for lunch.. :)

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Moon flower...The pride of my garden..

I just wanted this flower to head the line of flowers I am displaying in this blog. Moon flowers are the most beautiful flowers of my garden. At about 4.30pm, the buds would bloom in to wide soft velvetty white flowers,.. My kids enjoy seeing the buds blooming into flowers. It is amazing! This whole process takes less than 3 minutes! And they last the whole night. and when the sun's first drop of light falls on the flower, it 's life gets over. Thanks so sowmya.. my neighbor, I got this wonderful creeper. When you get the seeds of this creeper,.. please don' t put them in soil right away. soak them in water at least three days before you sow these seeds for the best results.

purple beauties..

I saw maroon flowers like these in my neighbor's home and was very impressed and thought I should also get those. I went to the nurseries on sajjapur road, (bangalore) and on road side, I found the same flower but in different colors, They were all potted and sold for 30Rs a pot. I found this pot having purple, white and and pale pink flowers in the same pot. Three colors in one shot!! Was happy and brought this home. It is seasonal and the flowers last at least 10 days, the shade of the flower indicating the age.. Dried flowers fall and new plants come once the plant dries off and we are ready for the next season!

moon flowers..and jasmines..

Moon flowers are the most beautiful flowers of my garden. At about 4.30pm, the buds would bloom in to wide soft velvetty white flowers,.. My kids enjoy seeing the buds blooming into flowers. It is amazing! This whole process takes less than 3 minutes! And they last the whole night. and when the sun's first drop of light falls on the flower, it 's life gets over. Thanks so sowmya.. my neighbor, I got this wonderful creeper. When you get the seeds of this creeper,.. please don' t put them in soil right away. soak them in water at least three days before you sow these seeds for the best results.

Serpant' s tongue..

This flower is one of the toughest plant. You can uproot this plant and throw in the sun, in summer for 3 days and plant it back, still it survives. My daughter Dhatri got it from her friends' home. Frankly.. I was n' t too interested to keep this plant in my home. But I did n't want to say no to my little one. So, kept it. But now.. I enjoy the flowers. These flowers just spread sideways making it difficult for the other plants to survive. One needs to control the growth of these plants, to let other plants live :-)

donDakaaya/thonDakaaya/kundroo/kanTOla

This creeper in my home has some history associated with it. My grandfather (who died like 15 years back) had this creeper in his house (Rangapuram village). My mother got sapling from the same creeper and grew it in her garden for years. When my backyard was ready for some plants, my mother gave a piece of the creeper (without roots!) and for days together,... I was too busy to even plant it. It was there in my baggage and only in weekend, I remembered and ran and planted it. For weeks together there were no leaves on it, I frankly thought, it died, and when I was not really looking for it, it started turning green and today I have a pound of these vegetables every week. My parents built the support when they came for a visit during the summer..

bacchali/indian spinach..

Bacchali was once regarded by common man as the boring cheap leaf, poor peple ate.. But Ayurveda always had high regard for this leaf. It has high levels of iron, has medicinal values associated with it. I myself have seen at least 4-5 varieties of bacchali. ** I think ** that the creeper with deep purple stem should be richest in iron content. In this picture, there are two creepers. one with thick,dark green leaf and another with pale green delicate leaf. I know one more kind which is a small bush (cylone bacchali) and purple stemmed bacchali.

My Ramblings..

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

OTG : My terrace painted red all over again..

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

OTG Diaries : Gongura ..

OTG diaries : Daal+Tamatar (tomato pappu) today

Sunday, September 20, 2015

21/09/2015 - Straight from Terrace Garden.

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Red Rose Creeper,

Pink and Yellow Rose

Light/Dark Combo Pink Rose

Red/Turmeric Rose

Red and Cream Roses

Another Rose from my garden

Cream Rose

Beautiful flowerbed..

Think hibiscus

Common hibiscus

Cream colored hibiscus

Two Roses

Guava flowers

Pink nooruvarahaaalu

Cacti

Cacti

Cacti

krishnakamal

Raama bANaalu/nooru varahaaalu/panneeTi guttulu

Cacti

Cacti..

hibiscus - Light saffron color.

Some cacti and other crotons

Orange shoe flower and kids

Moon flower...The pride of my garden..

Yellow flower creeper on our car parking..

Yellow rose..

Yellow button rose..

Button roses - Pink and White

Bunches of wild white roses

Pink button roses..

Orange button roses

Multi colored mini rose

Star like white button roses

Jasmins/sannajaji

Bunches of pink jasmins..

Mogra..The most admired flower of indian woman,

Green sampenga

Orange five petal flowers..

White table rose

orange little flowers

red flower..

neeli gOrinTa flowers..

Some wild orange flower..

kanakaambaram flowers

lady kanakaambaram

purple beauties..

Violet flower

White flower

Multi colored Idly flower bunches.

Purple idly flower bunches..

White idly flowers..

Red beauties..and the yellow flowers..

Yellow color single layered hibiscus...

White wild hibiscus

Orange full hibiscus

Violet double layered hibiscus flower

pale purple single layered hibiscus and a multi-layered orange hibiscus bud

moon flowers..and jasmines..

Orange Rama's arrow bunches getting ready to bloom to the fullest!

raama's arrows and mini roses

Serpant' s tongue..

My Garden ..

Light green eggplants/brinjal/vankaya/kathrikaaya

white and purple mixed colored brinjals

cherry tomatoes