My Little Balcony Garden (2012)-2

Posting some more photos of my garden 🙂

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Fenugreek (Methi) Seedlings

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Tomato flowers

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Little Tomato

I grow Fenugreek and Coriander plants in these big rectangular pots. I planted both at the same time but Coriander seeds take a very long time to germinate.

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Fenugreek & Coriander

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Crossandra

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Crossandra Flowers & Fenugreek harvest

Flower Rangoli – Ugadi 2012

Another Ugadi Rangoli! This was in 2012. I was in Nagoya and didn’t have many flowers on hand. I used roses from my little balcony garden and bought some chrysanthemums. I like using green leaves in rangoli. Here I’ve used rose leaves.

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All these beautiful roses ended up in my rangoli.

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M-Seal Craft

Home Sweet Home! I made this during my college days and I just can’t believe it was 10 years ago!!

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The background is a square wooden piece painted black. I used white M-seal to craft the flowers & leaves and then painted them using acrylic colours. Finally, wrote/painted “Home Sweet Home” .

The pen stand is so special to me.  It was gifted to me by my college friends in the final year.

 

Little Birdies

I made these little birds using felt and was wondering what to do with them.

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The house is a replica of Gasshō-zukuri Minka from Shirakawa-gō, Gifu, Japan. I made the photo frame using shells and corals collected from Miyakojima, Okinawa. 🙂 The two Shisas (lion dogs) are also from Okinawa.

Moth drinking nectar

This is a video of a moth drinking nectar from the flowers in our garden.The plant is Jasminum polyanthum (Pink Jasmine). We shot this video last spring. Gk spotted the moth and we recorded it immediately with the iPhone 5s we had at that instant. This is something I can’t forget because it was a day before we moved to Tokyo. Now waiting for this year’s bloom. I am seeing some pink buds already 🙂

Place: Nagoya, Japan
Date: April 30, 2015 

Flower Rangoli – Ugadi 2011

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I made this flower rangoli for Ugadi in 2011. We celebrated it at my grandma’s place.  My grandma loves gardening and all the flowers were from her garden. I had posted the pictures in my blog Life…!!! It goes on…

Link to the post: https://keerthanavc.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/ugadi2011/

Two years back, I saw a facebook profile which had this rangoli picture. I used Google Images to search by image and found that this picture is being used by one of the online greeting website 😉

This is one of the link that copied my picture.

http://blessingsonthenet.com/greetings/indian-festival/id/155/ugadi-greetings

Some more close-up pictures..

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And that’s me!

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