Gardening in Jaipur, India

Enjoying all the beauty a garden has to offer

Today we ’re head all the way to India to visit with Atoorva , who works as a polite handmaid for the government of India and gets transferred to a different city every three to four years . Atoorva currently lives in Jaipur , where the summers are raging , the winters are mild , and most of the rain falls in the summer monsoon season .

Two and a half old age ago when I came to Jaipur , the pink metropolis of India , and learnt that my new mansion has a garden , I was thrilled . After living in apartments for years , here was my chance to do real gardening and go back to my gardening gene — inherit from my parents . The garden did not disappoint me despite the summertime temperature arise to 48 ° carbon ( 118 ° F ) and the grunge being largely desert sand . In the summertime month , we had giantsunflowersandzinniasall around , and rainfall bring enchanting waterlilies andrain lily .

An teemingness of petunias(Petuniahybrid , annual ) . The most beautiful season in the garden in India is winter . wintertime is mild in this part of the human race , and most annual — frommarigoldsto petunias to pansies tocalendulas — flush during November to March .

An Amerind kingfisher . The garden is located near Jhalana Bird Sanctuary , and therefore the branches are always full of bulbuls , rufous treepies , grey hornbills , black - rumped flame back , hoopoes , parroquet , and kingfisher . An periodic sighting of migrant winter birds can brighten up the twenty-four hour period .

Jaipur has a sizable Inachis io universe , and my garden has a resident syndicate of them . These birds often find a home on the vast mango tree Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , which is the most salient part of the garden . While there are a twain of gooseberry tree , neem trees , and a golden shower tree , the Mangifera indica tree remain a darling with doll — even more so when it is full of Mangifera indica .

One of my first experiments in this garden was to make eight small water planter to hold the waterlilies . Within a few months , with the arrival of summertime , waterlilies were blooming in these planters , surrounded by portulaca on the solid ground nearby .

In wintertime the garden is full of flowers , such as cosmos(Cosmosbipinnatus , one-year ) and marigolds(Tagetes patula , yearly ) .

My pride as a nurseryman last winter was the pastiche of colors around a decorative stonefountain . This display includeddianthus , verbena , daisy , pansies , and even a redgeranium . The chaos of colors was somehow beautiful to my eyes .

In the early month of the class , tall smilinglarkspursattract plenty of sunbirds , and these purple looker swaying together in the spring breeze is a sight to behold .

A multifariousness of marigolds(Tagetes , annual ) . This winter , I am going to plant freesia , chinkerichee and ixia for the first fourth dimension . The decision was partly due to the lockdown effect , which made availableness of the common seedling very limited in local plant memory board , and so I decided to try these bulbs . At the moment the garden is full of marigolds — orange , red , yellow , and my favorite , vanilla extract .

The garden has its moods in every time of year , and even in the harshest day of summertime it is a peaceful refuge tobirdsand other puppet . In many ways , it is they who own the garden , and we are just the tenants , lucky enough to enjoy it for a short while .

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