Spring bounty

Being Spring, the first post I can think of writing about is my garden. From the beginning of this month I have found that, I am unable to look away from my garden. I find myself insisting on walks in pouring rain, just so I can have a look at the pink jasmine blooms in the corner house of our street.


From an young age, I grew surrounded by wide variety of plants and trees, hence, it is no surprise for me to fall in love with gardening. Though I don't posses much of green thumb, I am gardener enough to be able to pull off nice flowers during spring and summer, some tomatoes during fall and cilantros at all other times.

Well to make long thing short, my garden is blooming again this spring with nice red tulips, beautiful fragrant Pink Jasmine and simple but gorgeous Geraniums....  Well I have had Pink Jasmine right from last year (it has been growing like weed), while I tried geranium and Tulips this year. 


I planted about 6 Tulips bulbs in beginning of Feb, all of which sprouted and grew to an inch within 10 ten days. Guess the alternating cool and dry weather of San Mateo county helped them a lot. One thing I found about tulips is, they need lot of moisture in soil. So I keep the Tulip pot in a container filled with water, so that they always had direct access to water at all times.


Pink Jasmine is one of the toughest plant and very well suited to California climate. And it also takes the distinction of being the first plant to capture my husband's heart!! Those soft pink fragrant blooms are hard to resist. I planted it last year around March as a young sapling. Within a year it grew to cover one corner of my Patio. I started noticing the tiny dark pink buds at the end of Dec, which continued to grow in to nice pink buds by March. And now my whole plant is covered with aromatic white blooms.


Geranium, it has neither the over powering perfume of pink jasmine nor the seductive and strong coloration of tulips but geraniums are one of those simple beauties that makes us want to keep looking at them. Caring for geranium is pretty easy. They are strong perennial plants. Like Jasmine, they tend to grow very well if provided with the right environment. Lot of sunlight, water and fertilizer.So far I have not had much problem with them.


With summer on its way, I plan to plant  some nice vegetable like Okra, onion and of course the eternal summer favorite tomatoes and cilantros. Thats my tiny garden folks. Hope u enjoyed it..!!See u soon...!! :)