in a blue teacup …sonny helps the gardener paint the pots a bright terracotta…
The Mad Momma
The days are long but the years are short
in a blue teacup …sonny helps the gardener paint the pots a bright terracotta…
The Mad Momma 
Such a Good boy…blessings…your garden looks so green..me trying to put my terrace garden in place, any chances of consultation from MM the terrace gardner???
LOL! sure. where do you live?
C.R.Park re…quite close by…as corporate wale put it TA DA alag se…:) forgot to pick up ur card that day, guess it was a rush to brag to all my frenz and the dear hubby that I had a public appearance from the MM…
🙂 ha ha! well you know how to get in touch with me. if you’re serious, i’ll come and work with you on the garden for a day and get it organised. mail me.
Can you pls come over here?i can buy you flight ticket and visa.But beware of the beating heat around 42 degree C.
haha. i think i should quit my job if i plan to fly around the country doing gardens.
Pliss to do that,doesn’t it sounds lucrative?
Also you can travel around the world for free.
and who will take care of my babies? 😀
What for OA is afterall?(Bring forward few years the scenario what you describe at your age of 40(when you die))
awww… this is the best time. now i dont want to leave them. i’ll dump them when they’re insolent teenagers
you are not mad,you are smart.
havent you heard that there is a fine line between genius and insanity? i think i slipped across to the dark side!
LOL!!
Lush garden … its rare to find such a sight in Delhi
well now you know why i envy your house so much. i’ ve been begging the OA to move there!
Its awesome what you have done with your terrace. I really miss the gardens of my childhood…so rarein big cities….
do you have any bonsai?
yep 🙂 very proud of it too. one only though 😦
please please add the picture if u have one
not right now. but i will remember to click one and upload it.
hthats what i meant..thanks
Like beanie who doesnt deserve a non-ghost pic,this bonsai doesnt deserve a pic?
MM, Any chances of you taking up organizing gardens as a full time profession 😉 ??
i’d love to. if i get enough offers, i will.
i LOVE the way you experiment with your plants. we live in an apartment in bangalore, which thankfully has a good provision for gardening. me and the hubby are trying to make the house green and you continue to be a source of inspiration for us!! 🙂
sometimes plant behaviour leaves us puzzled.. would love to learn from you! 🙂
aww 🙂 thanks! i only experiment. if i keep a plant somewhere and its not doing well, i shift it, i change the watering time and amount. no real gyaan to give there, sadly!
Is that jade? The leaves are looking so awesome. My jade used to look so rich and lush but for some reason seem to shedding its leaves now.
Didn’t you have a pic of your bonsai(the one with the pretty pink flowers) on your banner sometime back?
i do.. but that one grew so big that its not accurate to call it a bonsai anymore!
What plant is that?
And imp question,how do u manage time for everything?
zimble. i dont sleep. the maali calls it jade. i am not sure.
Not even in Night?
Pls save some energy for your grand childrens too.
grandchildren? i plan to die at 40 so that the OA has to deal with unreasonable inlaws. i’ve done my share.
Whom do you refer as unreasonable inlaws? your folks or his?
both!
What if he himself has the plan of dying at 40?
or the important point of all of us dying together?
in that case there will be no grandchildren to worry about!
btw – you guys HAVE to watch this. its hysterical if you dont mind the profanity.
How i forgot OA reads this blog and expecting a genuine answer for the above question on inlaws?
pooh. i’m not scared of the big bad wolf. my parents are worse than inlaws because inspite of being my blood they take up for him blindly. also they’re mad. if you think i’m mad you shoudl see them. they’re stark raving nuts. and my mom reads my blog too.
As i dont follow Hindi could not relate to it much.
And i will wait for your mom to vouch on those afore-mentioned facts.
Why are you speaking about dying at 40?
I was told that according to Mayan Calendar the World is coming to an End in September 2012. I want to believe this one.
why?! you also dont want to raise insolent teenagers and then deal with their painful inlaws?
hey. what do you use to paint the pots?
Btw, you can make a killing offering gardening consultancy, you know!
You have probably heard of these guys – http://www.mysunnybalcony.com/
i have and i have been wanting to quit writing and joint them
i use terracotta to paint the pots. its better than that red pot paint.
I like that little Buddha-like thing on the left hand side 🙂
A big admirer of your gardening skills – you should do a post on that!!!
i do lots of chhota posts … cant get together the energy to do one biggie
So pretty and so green. I love your mirror-on-the-wall idea 🙂
Love the garden, must be lots of hard work with Delhi’s heat no? Our plants used to keep dying all the time during the summer.
And love the fact that you let the little ones go crazy with paint.
My MIL is really bigtime into gardening like you, and I’ve been looking for the frog and turle planters you once posted pictures of, in Bangalore. Know she’ll like those.
can you cart them from delhi next time?
I thought of that, so maybe yes, whenever I come next. Airline staff will probably think I’m crazy, but what’s another drop in the ocean of people who think I’ve lost my marbles 🙂
and its all for a greater cause, look at me – living with a moniker like mad momma!
you know it just dawned on me that i never got to see your beautiful terrace garden on my quick whirlwind visit. it was in the evening too but i should have. deng!
how is brat doing now? did you throw a party for him?
wow, over 250 comments on the last post eh? thats fantanstic…your readership is booming and deservingly so. do me a big favor..send some over to my little spot in the blogosphere as well, at least today, on my 10th wedding anniv, cant tell you how stoked i am!!!!! Just kidding, OK!! this the leo in me looking for flattery:-)
again…just kidding!
oh you should have! and it was winter so it was nicer 😦
sorry. the brat wasnt too well when you came na? thats what made it all the more chaotic.
and its your tenth?! today?
AWESOME!!! lets go everyone! let go wish sukanya!
happy anniversary!!!!
Hi MM,
Did you throw a party for the Brat? I am waiting for the big post. I hope he is doing well now.
not yet 🙂 saturday. am like a headless chicken now
I love this 🙂 And the fact that I have the same plant! Yippie 🙂
How long do u keep the plant in such small planters like tea cup? I have a huge coffee mug which I wanted to use but not sure what to plant in it or how long it will stay with so less soil….
This is permanent
Hey MM,
Will this chana-jhaad (I call it that, heard it in vns) last in a tea cup planter? Cos it belongs to the succlent family and needs proper drainage, plenty of sunlight and not much water…it can be propogated from the stem. Just clip a stem and plant..soon you can have a lush full pot of this jhaadi. I planted one in an old alumunium kadai but it didnt flourish. Didint die either but never flourished…so my maali told me drainage is of utmost importance. Or does this tea cup have a hole for it at the bottom? Pls let me know cos i have tons of unused tea mugs lying around.
Also that bonsai like plant with pink flowers on ur header is called as ‘desert rose’ here in the gulf region, becuase thats what it is. Thrives in dry,arid,sandy,hot regions. Dubai is full of it…looks lovely na?
Ur terrace looks yummmmyyyy.
cheers
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dubai
nope – no hole in the cup 😦
but i water.. and drain. and it gets lots of sunlight. thats how it lasts. the pink one is called adenium here.. i love it!
And those rocks? where did you find them in delhi? Here in dubai, we have to buy them in bags…not too cheap either! I find it maha annoying because heck! its found naturally and why should I be paying for stuff like that! But having said that, I actually went and bought a big bag of natural rocks and pebbles. hubster was quite willing to kick me out of the house/life cos of it.
But if we drive up to the mountains towards Oman/Hatta, outskirts of Dubai, we could just find them on the mountainside and load up the car. This is my contribution to yor readers from the uae ok? ok.
Oh, MM I do love ya so…such a joy reading your blog!
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ha ha! I found them on the roadside, driving back from auli and manali. we filled up the trunk of the car and lugged them up !