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This gardening blog of an amateur gardener from lahore. Currently growing more than 70 types of perennial flowers including 6 types of jasmine. Here you can find tips and tricks regarding flowering plants, fertilizers, fragrant plants, tropical plants, beginner gardening, seeds sowing etc.
Recent Posts
Growing Flowering bulbs in warm climates - Hyacinth
This is the 3rd article in this series. Hyacinth bulbs are native to cooler and mountainous regions so they do not grow very well in warmer areas like Lahore and Karachi. But forcing is very successful here. Forcing means cheating the bulb making it ...
Chrysanthemum Flower Show - Part 2
Here goes some more pics from the show:...
Chrysanthemum Flower Show - Part 1
I was writing the post of forcing hyacinth bulbs when Annual chrysanthemum show 2009 came up. Flower shows are just enchanting and if mums are there then it becomes impossible to ignore them. This year the event was held at Race course jelani park La...
Growing Flowering bulbs in warm climates - Ranunculus
This is the second article in this series. Ranunculus asiaticus with common name Persian buttercup Bloomingdale series. Here they reach around 10 inches in height and around 15 inches wide. They come in various color including yellow, red, white, blu...
Growing Flowering bulbs in warm climates - Anemone
I love flowering bulbs and fall is the best time to plant spring flowering bulbs in warm climates like lahore. I avoid planting bulbs like tulip, puschkinia, fritillaria, scilla, hyacinth etc as they do not grow well in our short and mild winters. We...
Macro monday
Although It has been a while the fall plantings are done, still some late summer bloomers are going all the way into november. And that includes sweet almond vebena, moon flower, sad tree, murraya and rain lilies. Okay i admit the first winter/spring...

