Bangaloreans have beautiful names for everything. (I am not one of them. I am from remote small town called Sirsi. And hence the small town mentality). They call small orange flower, which is used some times with jasmine garland kanakambara. We just call it abbalige.
Anyway I brought this small kanakambara plant an year ago. The plant already had a flower bunch in it. The flowers stayed without withering for almost a month. Then when they did wither, I blamed my opposition party (spouse!!) for that. I pointed that, when he was spraying insecticide to the adjacent mango plant, my kanakambara flowers got murdered.
Even after that I religiously was watering the plant everyday. But where are the flowers.? When I go to buy flower plants, I will be bewitched by the beauty of the flowers and bring them. But almost always, once these demo flowers wither away, there will be just plants, haughtily standing without even a single bud. Have they learnt a lesson or two from software packages?
So Kanakambara flower or lack of it was not a big surprise for me. But unlike many other times, I did not stop watering the plant. I am growing (very very very tiny steps)!!!
And yesterday there are few buds in the plant. In the next post, I will surely add their photo.
And demo version of Dahlia is yet another story. I brought this plant about a month back. There was this large, purple flower in it. So it was added to my collection of potted plants - depressed looking, like me, skeletal , unlike me.
But this time the plant decided to give me a surprise and bloomed a second flower. May be because the bud was already there.
After the second flower dried and was beheaded by me, there came yet another bud. By now I was confident of this plant and its reliability. I would wake up early in the morning at 7 and run to the plant. Hoping to see, the bud blossom into a purple beauty. One day, two days, one week. Still the bud remained tight lipped - tight corollaed (is that the right botanical word?). By now there was a second bud showing hints of purple small petallettes. I cut the defiant bud and this latter bud bloomed into a faded, skeletal caricature of a flower.
But that is life!
Anyway I brought this small kanakambara plant an year ago. The plant already had a flower bunch in it. The flowers stayed without withering for almost a month. Then when they did wither, I blamed my opposition party (spouse!!) for that. I pointed that, when he was spraying insecticide to the adjacent mango plant, my kanakambara flowers got murdered.
Even after that I religiously was watering the plant everyday. But where are the flowers.? When I go to buy flower plants, I will be bewitched by the beauty of the flowers and bring them. But almost always, once these demo flowers wither away, there will be just plants, haughtily standing without even a single bud. Have they learnt a lesson or two from software packages?
So Kanakambara flower or lack of it was not a big surprise for me. But unlike many other times, I did not stop watering the plant. I am growing (very very very tiny steps)!!!
And yesterday there are few buds in the plant. In the next post, I will surely add their photo.
And demo version of Dahlia is yet another story. I brought this plant about a month back. There was this large, purple flower in it. So it was added to my collection of potted plants - depressed looking, like me, skeletal , unlike me.
But this time the plant decided to give me a surprise and bloomed a second flower. May be because the bud was already there.
After the second flower dried and was beheaded by me, there came yet another bud. By now I was confident of this plant and its reliability. I would wake up early in the morning at 7 and run to the plant. Hoping to see, the bud blossom into a purple beauty. One day, two days, one week. Still the bud remained tight lipped - tight corollaed (is that the right botanical word?). By now there was a second bud showing hints of purple small petallettes. I cut the defiant bud and this latter bud bloomed into a faded, skeletal caricature of a flower.
But that is life!
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