My roof top terrace garden

All I will say is that I am rather pleased with my roof top terrace garden these days!
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My balcony garden with Poinsettias, Mums and Coleus

My balcony is looking rather dressed these days with Chrysanthemums, Coleus and my favorite Poinsettias. Every year I take a trip to the nursery around November and buy some Poinsettias which I then flaunt on my balcony. The plants this year are rather small and two of them have lost a branch each so they are looking even smaller now. Poinsettia branches sadly are rather brittle!

I grow the Chrysanthemums on my rooftop terrace garden as it gets good sunlight unlike my lawn which is shaded by huge trees growing just outside the boundary wall of my house. Once the buds make an appearance, we take the pots down to the balcony where we can enjoy them even more.

 Rows of Chrysanthemum pots on the terrace.

And brought down to the balcony now.

Hibiscus in my balcony garden

Beautiful Dwarf Hibiscus!

Thanks to the team at Wordless Wednesday.

Basil in my rooftop garden

I needed pots for the Petunia and Dahlia seedlings and I realised that I had lots of pots with Basil growing in them! It seems to have self seeded throughout my roof top terrace garden alongside other plants and into many empty pots. And all these from one small cutting that a friend of mine had given me!

In the Amaryllis pots

  In the Bougainvillea planter

                                                                Living with the Dracaena

  Giving company to the Frangipani

Basil plants ready to be pulled out

Some seeds collected too!

I hated to pull out all the healthy Basil plants but I needed the pots for Petunia and Dahlia seedlings. However, there was a silver lining to this cloud too. I had a whole bunch of beautiful aromatic Basil leaves and so I made Pesto! 

I have some empty pots now but I think I'm going to need a whole lot more!

Amaryllis everywhere,,,in my garden!

The Amaryllis are in full bloom and this year almost all my pots are blooming. And the best part is that I have not done anything for them all year except water them. I did not divide the bulbs and put them in new pots so  most of them are crowding their pots. The only time I repotted the bulbs was when the pots broke, maybe from the crowding!

All my Amaryllis pots lie on the terrace of my house all the year around. Even when the temperature touches 107-111°F during May and June they remain there under the blazing hot sun without any problem. I find the Amaryllis extremely low maintainence and yet the blooms are so splendid and beautiful.

Around the 17th of last month, I went bud spotting on my terrace and I was delighted to see many of the pots sending up buds.

Soon there were many stalks loaded with buds. The sight above, made me so happy! And now they are blooming in abundance in various nooks and corners of my house.

 

 

As you might have guessed already, for me there is no such thing as 'too many' where these lovely blooms are concerned!