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| Although every year summers are getting hotter than previous years in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan but at the same time winters are becoming milder than previous years in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. This pleasant change is giving very much needed relief to not only humans but also to animals and plans. Milder winters are giving animals and plants much needed time to recover from the damages they get during summers. | |||||||||
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| I am sharing some photos of a plant which had relatively bad time during hottest days of this summer. Although it did survived hot days but some of it's leaves were showing signs of decay. Now from a little before start of this year's winter season plant started giving good-looking, large and fresh-looking large leaves again. Same is the situation with other plants of our lawn. | |||||||||
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| Today as I was passing by the plant I discussed above I noticed that it had a fresh and very good-looking, large leaf shining in the winter sun. I stopped by the plant and observed it for some time. I also admired it's ability to rebound from a relatively bad situation it was in during summer of this year (2020). After observing that plant in detail I took out my mobile, nokia c1-01, and took some photos of that leaf and also of some other plants in our lawn. Newest leaf of the plant made me to admire and realize again the Mother Nature. | |||||||||
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Showing posts with label Home garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Home garden. Show all posts
Saturday, November 28, 2020
Art of Nature - 201128Sa
Thursday, October 29, 2020
A corner of our Lawn - 201030Fr
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| Right from the beginning we had a coconut tree at a corner of the lawn of our home. Coconut tree grew into a healthy tree and used to give very healthy coconut fruits frequently. But a few years back it become sick and slowly, slowly diet. We were not able to save it. After that coconut tree had died we arranged some laborers to cut and remove it's remains from our lawn. That coconut tree was around 30 years old. The corner of our lawn, where once our beautiful and healthy coconut tree used to be standing, remained empty for some time. Meanwhile we kept planning what to plant in that place or how to utilize that space. | |||||||||
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| During same time we have had a good looking extra plant in a good looking pot in our veranda. I suggested to place that plant in the empty corner and so from then that empty looking area became not so empty for the time being. After some time my brother brought some artificial birds and our gardener placed them in front of the plant we had earlier placed in the corner of our lawn. | |||||||||
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| Combination of big leaved plant and two good looking artificial birds in front of it looked very good then and is still looking very good. Although that plant went through some bad times during summer 2020 of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan but after that recovered. | |||||||||
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| Following are photos I took using my mobile, nokia c1-01, of the plant and two artificial birds standing in front of it I mentioned above. | |||||||||
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Monday, August 17, 2020
Money plants in our lawn - 200817Mo
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| Some years ago I made an idea of planting money plants in a lot of pots and arrange them together side by side in our lawn. So I started doing as I planned and planted one money plant cutting per pot. In a few weeks they all took roots and in some more weeks they started climbing the supporting branches I had fixed in the pot. Slowly and steady they all climbed to the top of the branch. They all together gave a pleasant and green and fresh look to the area where I had placed them. I take special care of them all and almost daily go to them for enjoying their look and feel and for checking for their health. | |||||||||
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| During monsoon of this year (2020) one day I observed that those money plants were looking very fresh and clean and wet and ready for some photo session. In one or two days, my idea of taking photos of those money plants became riper but problem was continuous rains. So on one afternoon as rain took rest for a while I quickly went to place where I had arranged money plant pots. Then I took some photos of money plants from different angles and quickly came back inside the home as rain was giving signs of starting again. I took these photos using my mobile nokia c1-01. After editing those photos of money plants, I uploaded them to different sites. | |||||||||
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| After a few days of above adventure I made another plan of taking photos of the same money plants with a better camera. So this time in one morning I again went to those money plants and took some photos of them. This time photo size and object details were far better. | |||||||||
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| Apart from these we also have other money plants in our lawn and they are all individually arranged between other plants to give contrast. I planted them all in pots of different sizes. In this post I am sharing only those pictures of the money plants that I have mentioned in the above paragraphs. | |||||||||
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| Money plant is also know as Araceae, Ceylon creeper, Epipremnum aureum, golden pothos, hunter's robe, ivy arum, popular houseplant, Pothos, silver vine, Solomon Islands ivy and taro vine. | |||||||||
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| Money plat is a popular houseplant and is commonly found in Pakistan, China, Bangladesh, Cook Islands, Fiji, Hainan, Hawaii, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Java, Maluku Islands, Marshall Islands, Mo'orea, Myanmar, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Nusa Tenggara, Palau, peninsular Malaysia, Philippines, Queensland, Sabah, Sarawak, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sulawesi, Sumatra, Taiwan, Thailand, Tonga, Vanuatu, Vietnam and Western Samoa. etc. | |||||||||
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Friday, August 7, 2020
Money plants in our lawn - 200808Sa
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| Some years ago I made an idea of planting money plants in a lot of pots and arrange them together side by side in our lawn. So I started doing as I planned and planted one money plant cutting per pot. In a few weeks they all took roots and in some more weeks they started climbing the supporting branches I had fixed in the pot. Slowly and steady they all climbed to the top of the branch. They all together gave a pleasant and green and fresh look to the area where I had placed them. I take special care of them all and almost daily go to them for enjoying their look and feel and for checking for their health. | |||||||||
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| During monsoon of this year (2020) one day I observed that those money plants were looking very fresh and clean and wet and ready for some photo session. In one or two days, my idea of taking photos of those money plants became riper but problem was continuous rains. So on one afternoon as rain took rest for a while I quickly went to place where I had arranged money plant pots. Then I took some photos of money plants from different angles and quickly came back inside the home as rain was giving signs of starting again. I took these photos using my mobile nokia c1-01. After editing those photos of money plants, I uploaded them to different sites. | |||||||||
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| There are other money plants as well in our lawn and they are all individually arranged among other plants to give contrast. They were all planted in different sized pots. I am only sharing photos of the money plants I described in above paragraphs. | |||||||||
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Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Trumpet creeper of our lawn - 200805We
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| Now a day’s climate of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan is very hot and it is very difficult to go out of home in open for longer periods, especially in afternoon. Plus because of CORONA PANDEMIC I am also taking extra care in getting outside. Because of these already mentioned reasons I am avoiding going to lawn of our home for some time now. But today by chance I looked at the front lawn from window of a room of our home and was surprised to see that although temperatures were very high but China rose plant was full of flowers. | |||||||||
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| This surprise made me to visit front lawn of our home in the afternoon because in the light of afternoon I had a better chance of capturing better pictures of flowers in our lawn. I was amazed to see so many flowers on one of the China rose plant. I took out my mobile's nokia c1-01 out of my pocket and took some photos of flowers of our lawn. | |||||||||
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| After tacking some photos of china roses I shifted my attention to Orange hummingbird trumper crepper. This creeper is one of my favourite for more then one reason. Now a days it is full of flowers so I took some photos of it's flowers also. Whenever I see flowers of this creeper I notice presence of many ants on it's flowers and a few honneybees and/or butterflies on it's flowers. Some times I also notice hummingbired howering over it's flowers and enjoying it's nector. | |||||||||
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| Following are photos of flowers of above mentioned Orange hummingbird trumper crepper plant. Photos of China rose plant were shared in this post. | |||||||||
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Trumpet creeper of our lawn - 2 - 200805We
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| Now a day’s climate of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan is very hot and it is very difficult to go out of home in open for longer periods, especially in afternoon. Plus because of CORONA PANDEMIC I am also taking extra care in getting outside. Because of these already mentioned reasons I am avoiding going to lawn of our home for some time now. But today by chance I looked at the front lawn from window of a room of our home and was surprised to see that although temperatures were very high but China rose plant was full of flowers. | |||||||||
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| This surprise made me to visit front lawn of our home in the afternoon because in the light of afternoon I had a better chance of capturing better pictures of flowers in our lawn. I was amazed to see so many flowers on one of the China rose plant. I took out my mobile's nokia c1-01 out of my pocket and took some photos of flowers of our lawn. | |||||||||
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| After tacking some photos of china roses I shifted my attention to Orange hummingbird trumper crepper. This creeper is one of my favourite for more then one reason. Now a days it is full of flowers so I took some photos of it's flowers also. Whenever I see flowers of this creeper I notice presence of many ants on it's flowers and a few honneybees and/or butterflies on it's flowers. Some times I also notice hummingbired howering over it's flowers and enjoying it's nector. | |||||||||
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| After taking photos of different flowers of our lawn using my mobile nokia c1-01 I found me a littler confident. Under influence of that freshly acuired confidence I decided to take some more photos of flowers of our lawn using better camera. | |||||||||
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| Following are photos, I took using better camera, of flowers of above mentioned Orange trumpet creeper plant. Photos I took on 2020 Aug 5 of Orange trumpet creeper with my mobile nokia c1-01 were shared in this post. Photos I took on 2020 Aug 5 with better camera of China rose plant were shared in this post. Photos I took on 2020 Aug 5 of China rose with my mobile nokia c1-01 were shared in this post. | |||||||||
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Sunday, July 26, 2020
Art of nature - 200726Su
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| Every year summers are getting hotter than previous years in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Not only high temperatures are effecting humans but also animals and plants are having very bad times. Animals and plants do not have any facility of electric fans or air conditioners etc so there sufferings are even more then it looks. | |||||||||
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| I am sharing some photos of a plant which had relatively bad time during hottest days of this summer. Although it survived hot days but some of it's leaves showed signs of what some of plants of our lawn were going through. | |||||||||
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Monday, July 6, 2020
Summer, Flowers and Honey bee - 200707Th
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| Today as I came out of tv-lounge of our home my eyes fell on beautiful orange colored bell shaped flowers which were hanging on side wall of our home. Flowers were looking more bright and clear in hot afternoon of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan summer. An idea of making photos of these flowers visited my mind and I quickly took out my mobile and started taking photos of those flowers with my mobile (nokia c1-01) camera. | |||||||||
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| During taking photos of those beautiful and fragrant flowers I noticed that a honey bee was at the same time also taking interest in those flowers. This made me a little excited and made me wait for honey bee to come/fly in right place for taking it’s photos. Honey bee kept flying around flowers and in and out of flowers. Then time was afternoon and temperature was high so I avoided staying there for a long time. I took a few photos and idea of making videos never came into my mind. | |||||||||
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Monday, June 29, 2020
Rose Triplets of Our lawn - 200629Mo
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| Around a couple of decades ago we had a lot of plants of roses, may be around fifteen, in our lawn. They all were of different color and were of big flower variety. We and our guest all used to like them very much. But one day my around one year old nephew during playing in our home lawn fell on one of those rose plants and got injured. After that I removed all of those rose plants. I also removed all other thorny plants from flower pots and lawn. |
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| But now after a long time (few decades), earlier this year (2020) we again planted some plants of roses in our lawn. This time we opted for red color rose plants of local variety only. We made this choice for the beauty and fragrance of flower and because this variety give a lot of flowers throughout the year. Soon after getting set in their new home, all rose plants started giving a lot of beautiful flowers. |
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Saturday, March 7, 2020
Khat-mith in our lawn - 2020Mar07Sat
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Sunday, August 28, 2016
Monsoon 2016
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| #Monsoon: #Plants of our #lawn after today's #rain |
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| In twitter I somehow reached on someone's tweet about monsoon rains in Karachi with some photos of plants and flowers looking very fresh because of rain drops of this season on them. I liked photos in that tweet so much that I went ahead and also liked that tweet. |
| There was a coconut tree in one of photos in that tweet which was looking almost same as coconut tree in our home. Which brings an idea in my mind that flowers, plants and trees are also available in our lawn then why not I also take some pictures of them and put them online. |
| So I quickly went to our lawn took some fresh photos with my mobile nokia c1-01, added water mark and logo to them in maybe photoshop, shortlisted them and then first tweeted them on twitter and second uploaded photos to photos.google and then shared them here in this blog post. |
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