A Beginner’s Effort to Set Up a Small Garden
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jdashraf
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A Beginner’s Effort to Set Up a Small Garden
AoA. My love for plants, flowers and gardening started only in Jan this year, Thanks to Gardening Pakistan. This happened when I moved to Rawalpindi and got house with small area to be used for lawn and plants. Incidentally I got the same house where I had already lived from 2007- 2009. At that time I planted few fruit trees in the house which were to give fruit after 2-3 years . At that time I never thought I will ever be able to enjoy eating their fruit… But this year, I have already enjoyed lokat and apples should be ready within a month. Mango and Guava trees were already there. It gave me so much pleasure that today I am eating fruit of trees which I sowed with my own hands…
Coming back to the topic… I will be sharing my small successes towards setting up my garden (which should be a long journey, I guess, keeping in view me little knowledge about the gardening) This house had nothing similar to called plants and flowers. I had to do it all afresh.
After cleaning this is how it looked like – Fig 1 (Jan 13):
Preparation of Lawn
1, As per guidance on this forum I started with removing the 1 to 1.5 feet of sand to avoid weeds (fig 2)
2. Then filled the lawn with new bhal of swan river .. (fig 3)
3. Sowed the fine Dhaka grass
Coming back to the topic… I will be sharing my small successes towards setting up my garden (which should be a long journey, I guess, keeping in view me little knowledge about the gardening) This house had nothing similar to called plants and flowers. I had to do it all afresh.
After cleaning this is how it looked like – Fig 1 (Jan 13):
Preparation of Lawn
1, As per guidance on this forum I started with removing the 1 to 1.5 feet of sand to avoid weeds (fig 2)
2. Then filled the lawn with new bhal of swan river .. (fig 3)
3. Sowed the fine Dhaka grass
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Re: A Beginner’s Effort to Set Up a Small Garden
WOW..........Great work and quick results. Way you go....
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Re: A Beginner’s Effort to Set Up a Small Garden
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4. Lawn after one month fig 4
Will share later how lawn looks like today..
Preparation for Seasonal Flowers
It was already Feb 13, so I could not sow from seeds, therefore I went for paneris from nursaries. Being the beginner, I only went for Petunia, antirrhinum, Pansy, Cineraria, Daisy, Nasturtium and fwe more..Few pictures are shared below:
4. Lawn after one month fig 4
Will share later how lawn looks like today..
Preparation for Seasonal Flowers
It was already Feb 13, so I could not sow from seeds, therefore I went for paneris from nursaries. Being the beginner, I only went for Petunia, antirrhinum, Pansy, Cineraria, Daisy, Nasturtium and fwe more..Few pictures are shared below:
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Re: A Beginner’s Effort to Set Up a Small Garden
Few more...
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And these..
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Farhan Ahmed
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Re: A Beginner’s Effort to Set Up a Small Garden
What a sweet reminder of spring.......Nasturtium shot is lovely with background light.
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Few more ..
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And few from recent days ...
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Re: A Beginner’s Effort to Set Up a Small Garden
Please allow me to share the joy that I get when I see these beautiful flowers sowed with my own hands.. Flowers from hereon are all sowed from seeds ..Never ever felt the extreme pride and joy what I got when I saw-throw seeds sprouting in seedlings,then growing up and then flowering ...UN-parallel joy..
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Re: A Beginner’s Effort to Set Up a Small Garden
I like this vine .. "Butterfly Pea" growing at very fast pace. This one gifted to me by my friend he got its seeds from Holland.. I am collecting seeds, will share with members who desire..
Passiflora vine below is different than usual passiflora or passion flower . I got seeds from Chanan Din Lahore, not sure what is this..
Passiflora vine below is different than usual passiflora or passion flower . I got seeds from Chanan Din Lahore, not sure what is this..
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