Are You Into Gardening ?

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Just wanted to know if you guys are into gardening. I started gardening few years back and I find it very relaxing. I was off for few months as I was out of town but I've started gardening again. I'm into flowers and veggies.


I also have a question. Few years back, I tasted a very hot chili in Sikkim. It was yellow and smelled like Ghee (clarified butter). I forgot the name. Anyone ?
 
Just wanted to know if you guys are into gardening. I started gardening few years back and I find it very relaxing. I was off for few months as I was out of town but I've started gardening again. I'm into flowers and veggies.


I also have a question. Few years back, I tasted a very hot chili in Sikkim. It was yellow and smelled like Ghee (clarified butter). I forgot the name. Anyone ?

Yes..its very enjoyable activity. I have been doing it on varying scales for more than decade apart from our traditional farming that we (my parents) still do. Tried bonsai as well...takes good amount of effort..
But no hot Sikkim chillies tho :)
 
You're right, yogibear. It really requires time, effort and patience to see good results. It really is enjoyable and takes off some stress :)

About that chili, I think it's Ghritkumari Bombay Chili although I'm not sure if it's grown in Bombay.
 
In Delhi I do gardening myself. No Mali or gardener. My saturday(which is a holiday) is spent in gardening. Right from weeding, cleaning, manuring etc. Now the time is right for planting seedlings for flowers and veggies. My present plantings include Calendula,Salvia,Chrysanthemum,Star petunia,Double Dahlias(Keenya variety) etc . Will be planting cineraria shortly.
In fact I have Kerala Nendram banana tree in delhi for the last six years and am getting the fruit and also using the stem and flower for cooking.
 
Just wanted to know if you guys are into gardening. I started gardening few years back and I find it very relaxing. I was off for few months as I was out of town but I've started gardening again. I'm into flowers and veggies.


I also have a question. Few years back, I tasted a very hot chili in Sikkim. It was yellow and smelled like Ghee (clarified butter). I forgot the name. Anyone ?
I am from Kalimpong so we do spend a lot of time with the plants.
Though my wife and father take special care of the more exotic azaleas, orchids (cymbedium, catlia etc), anthurium, bromeliads etc I am more keen on the common plants such as the blue eyed Susan (thumbergia alata), sacred bamboo (nandina domestica), tree ferns, ivy (hedera helix), African violet, cyclamen, begonia, geraniums, hydrangea, wisteria, jade berry, fuschias (Bell flower) and the slightly uncommon ginkgo biloba etc.
I also love trees such as the maple, the magnolia, yew and oak.
You could grow plants for flower, foliage, medicine, fruit and even smell (artemesia, citronella, jasmine). Some like the mimosa pudica can be quite tactile as they respond to touch. We call it the buwari jhar(or the shy daughter in law plant because it retracts on touch).
It's also fascinating to learn their names.
We have a small resort where we have pine trees and rhododendron bushes besides tree ferns, vernacular species like lycopdium and various types of grass, raspberries and goose berries.
At home we have a few guava trees, a mulberry bush, avocado and orange.
Some of my friends are into the full time floriculture and nursery business and it is always a pleasure to visit them. A few family members have orange orchards. Some tried growing kumkat in pots. This is a wonderful fruit, very tasty.
My area is blessed because of the variety of flora.
The famous botanist Hooker visited Sikkim and Darjeeling in the mid-1800s and left a fascinatingly erudite account of the diverse plant species that he encountered here. Hooker journal could be downloaded and read free from project Guttenberg.
Regarding the chilly was it small, round and red?

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I've been struggling to find a persimmon sapling and hass avocado sapling in Delhi NCR. Anyone happen to have any leads? I have Kamagong which is a relative of the persimmon and 5 fuerte avocado plants but need hass to assist with cross pollination.
 
One of the books I relished reading was - Up in old hotel and other stories by Joseph Mitchell.
There is a story about a cemetery. He is describing the plants that grew around..
He actually names them: poison ivy, cat brier, trumpet creeper, wild hop, blackberry, morning glory,climbing false buckwheat, patrridgeberry, fox grape, milkweed, knotweed,ragweed, Jimson weed, pavement weed, catchfly, Jerusalem oak, bedstraw, goldenrod, cocklebur, butter-and- eggs, dandelion, bouncing Bet, mullein, partridge pea, beggar's lice, sandspur, wild garlic, wild mustard, wild geranium, old-field cinquefoil, cinnamon fern and lady fern. Whew.. wish I had that kind of a plant vocabulary..

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One of the books I relished reading was - Up in old hotel and other stories by Joseph Mitchell.
There is a story about a cemetery. He is describing the plants that grew around..
He actually names them: poison ivy, cat brier, trumpet creeper, wild hop, blackberry, morning glory,climbing false buckwheat, patrridgeberry, fox grape, milkweed, knotweed,ragweed, Jimson weed, pavement weed, catchfly, Jerusalem oak, bedstraw, goldenrod, cocklebur, butter-and- eggs, dandelion, bouncing Bet, mullein, partridge pea, beggar's lice, sandspur, wild garlic, wild mustard, wild geranium, old-field cinquefoil, cinnamon fern and lady fern. Whew.. wish I had that kind of a plant vocabulary..

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Hmm lets see if I can recall what I have at the reserve:

Avocado, papaya, crape jasmine, coral jasmine, angel wing jasmine, honeysuckle, bouganville, alistonia scholaris, lychee, golmohar, ixora, longan, custard apple, soursop, She-oak, Silver Oak, Dates, polyalthia longifolia, pink guava, white guava, goose berry, kamagong, agarwood, clausia lancium or wampee, plumeria x 3 cultivars, red wax apple, green wax apple, rose apple, pomegranate, Bauhinia , Jamun, Mulberry, travellers palm, forest bamboo, Cadamba, Cassia fistula, chinaberry, magnolia x alba, himalayan champak, Langra Dussehri mango, Peach, pear, neem, kanak champa, Butea monosperma, thuja, juniper, rajnigandha, hibiscuses, ficus virens, bottle brush, Canistel, Kalpasree dwarf coconut, beach hibiscus, cotton rosemallow, Indian rosewood, fox tail palm, fishtail palm, tecoma gaurichori, Chukrasia, vetiver grass, lasora, krishna and radha tulsi, green chilli, beetroot, radish, carrot, cabbage, cauliflower, hasnahauna, brinjal, brocolli, louquat, kumquat, phalsa, mahua, cassia javanica, radhachura, karobi, curryleaf tree, starfruit, jackfruit, gardenia, banana, terminalia cattapa, mandarin, nagpur orange, plumeria pudica, buddha bamboo, too tired to recall anymore :lol:
 
I've been to Kalimpong (Kolekham, Lolegaon, Rishyap, Lava) and I was quite amazed to see so much colors in every home :) The weather was so nice in Rishyap and so was the bloom.

I've already sown seeds of turnip, carrot (2 varieties), radish (3 varieties), chinese cabbage (very less germination coz our cat slept on them seeds), broccoli (same situation with the cat), coriander, spinach, chili, methi, amaranth. Also ordered some seeds of herbs like oregano, thyme, mint.

Got mariegolds for pest control, already have hibiscus, dahlias, jasmine, roses, wax flowers for them bees and butterflies which encourages in more fruits.
 
We have a small resort where we have pine trees and rhododendron bushes besides tree ferns, vernacular species like lycopdium and various types of grass, raspberries and goose berries.
Regarding the chilly was it small, round and red?

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Which avocado do you have and what is the lowest and max temperature at your area?
 
Well there are wild avocados that grow in the forest. The fruits are small and spherical and black/purplish when 'ripe'. Locally its called 'fampal' or 'lapchay kaulo' or 'pumsi'. This is
Machilus edulis King.
The current commercial Avocados were brought to Kalimpong from Nepal and Bhutan. Some of these (such has Haas) are being grafted with wild avocados.
Avacado is quite prone to fungal disease and also harbor caterpillars. Some advise not to prune because the exposed branches get exposed to fungal infection.
Our Avacado is Haas.


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Temp in Kalimgpong is around 25-0 throughout the year varying from place to place.

About the chili, it's not red not sure if it will get red when fully ripe. It's Ghritakumari Bombay Chili, I think.
 
Well there are wild avocados that grow in the forest. The fruits are small and spherical and black/purplish when 'ripe'. Locally its called 'fampal' or 'lapchay kaulo' or 'pumsi'. This is
Machilus edulis King.
The current commercial Avocados were brought to Kalimpong from Nepal and Bhutan. Some of these (such has Haas) are being grafted with wild avocados.
Avacado is quite prone to fungal disease and also harbor caterpillars. Some advise not to prune because the exposed branches get exposed to fungal infection.
Our Avacado is Haas.


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Wild avocados <3 how I wish such things happened here. I'm dying here in delhi for avocados. All the ones available here at markets are plucked too early from trees are horrid. I'm looking for hass here but can't find :(
 
Do you want the fruit or a plant ? You might be able to find that kind in Hogg Market. I'm not sure if our climate allows proper fruiting of avocado but worth trying.
 
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