Plant Exhibition - 2014

Before I begin with a few pics from a plant exhibition we recently had in the city, lemme show you my green corner again.  I just change positions of the few pots that I have and admire myself at the new look and be happy.  :)

And now for some pics from the plant exhibition.  This year.  The number of bonsai plants were less.  But we have bonsai exhibitions once or twice a year in the city.  Oh!  those are amazing.  I learnt the basics of bonsai  last year.  But the plant did not survive.  I'll try again.

Now for some pics.  There were flower arrangement , bonsai competitions there.  Please don't mind the quality of the pics.  They were taken from my cell.

Can you see the green rose?

Dahlias

This is beautiful. The bougainvilleas

Cactus.  These are so huge and must be old too cause they have flowered.

I liked this idea.  Its an old tray.  Huge one.  On which the landscaping has been done.  Thats really beautiful.

These were the only two terrariums.

There was salad decoration also.  He looks cute na?

Flower arrangement.  I liked this a lot.  Simple but beautiful.

This got the first prize

Look at this.....  This reminds me of christmas snow flakes.  (crocheted :))

 

This is my favourite.  The adenium.  It has been grafted multiple times.  So we can see different shades of the flower on the same plant.

I ENJOYED MY VISIT TO THIS EXHIBITION.  I bought three petunia plants.  Have to buy a pot to repot them.  Could'nt make that buy as yet.  Will do that soon.  I bought some radish and carrot seeds too.  Plant to sow them tom. A special day for me.  My girl turns 18.

Zipper pouch

Before I could even blog about it, its gone.  Nevertheless, the memories are there :)  Ever since I saw zipper pouches on blogland, I wanted to make one myself and more than me, my little one was very keen that I make one for her.  I kept getting lot of reminders from her :) is when I decided its time I work rather than just gaze at tutorials.  

Here's how it turned out

She used it excitedly for about 10 days and :( sad, left it behind in school one day.  And she's lost it. Her favourite TRIMAX pens and other paraphernalia along with the pouch are gone.  She was upset for a day... (so was I ).  I'll make one more now.

The making is super simple.  There are vivid tutorials available on blogland.

Four pieces of fabric. The same size as the zipper.  I also used a soft sponge for padding in between.  All left over fabric that I had in my stash. By the way, the sewing machine is my mother's and is more than 50 years old. Going strong.  She has attached a motor also.  Though I use it sparingly, I take care, oiling it once in a while.  I love it.

I tried this out.  Cut circles.  Turned them inside out first

Then pinned them like this and 

Stitched them one above the other to make it look cuter.

Sense of achievement. Source of scoring brownie points from my lil one :)

Hmmm... there are two new shoots growing in my balcony.  I planted these.  Can you guess?

Plant Exhibition

There was a plant exhibition in my city.  I loved visiting the place.  A feast to one's eyes. And I had to firmly make up my mind not to get tempted to buy plants. :(  We are shifting to a new home soon and I have one balcony which is not big enough to accommodate even my present collection.  Phew! Such is life.  Lemme atleast share few pics here with you.

I don't know their names.  They were all lovely.

A twenty five year old Adenium. So claimed the stall owner !  My favourite plant.

More adeniums

Red leaved plants.  These are beautiful.  I don't know the name :) The leaves turn red as they grow.  Its a bright plant, brings cheer around.

Smiley flowers

Few more

These are simple pleasures. I read sometime back that gardening is a good stress buster.  When we sow and tend to the garden, the negative energies from the body  flow back into the earth!  Happy gardening.