Gardening On The Terrace

A dusk view of one corner of my terrace garden.




Ever since the front yard was used for keeping construction material,
I started to shift many of my potted plants to the terrace. Initially,
it was done in spasmodic spells, the shift hampered by rain several
times. There are over 100 potted plants and I've added all kinds of
containers too. This was a necessity as I wanted to grow vegetables
there as well.










For growing okra, I've used these large plastic bags, originally
used for packing cement. Much more room and and I can put in a whole
lot of stuff like coconut husks, leaves from my trees, and cow dung.
The topmost layer is garden soil bought from the nursery.








Growing in one of the containers is this Canna lily/canna indica.








The sense of aesthetics isn't much of a priority here:) I'm using these
long containers made out of old wood. The Porter Weed plants are doing
well, and in the background, you can see a coleus and also a croton plant.
Below is a close shot of the croton leaf. It was my good fortune that a
dragonfly chose to land there when I was pottering about in my terrace
garden.


I've already sowed some seeds--carrot and eggplant. I hope they do well.
As for the other blooms, the four o'clocks aren't showing any signs of
fatigue and the Pink Jasmine still adds that extra special touch with its
oh-so-heady-smell.