Grafting Roses-The new fad

Have you ever felt excited about a particular activity you in your mind take a fancy to. Well, I have. The new bug that has bitten me is grafting.With the new rose blooms being welcomed this summer I realized that I would soon need to turn into a barber and trim down the old branches.But in my opinion why waste even the pruned stems. Well grafting is just like surgery and perfection can be achieved only with experience.So,taking the almighty's name , I am embarking on this mission and that too, pretty soon!

A Green Experiment

I am writing this post after hearing from my mom. The day before I left, I sat down to prune my roses and cut down quite a lot of old and a little bit of the new stem. Looking at the pruned cuttings I thought of putting them to some better use i.e. propagating them once again. Now, this experiment has already been done by many people but works for a few  and this being a grafted rose I was apprehensive but still decided to try my luck. I took a knife and made a scratch on the tip of  one of the pruned cuttings and immediately dipped it in a bottle full of water. This rose cutting had a green leaf node which had not yet bloomed but looked hopeful. Thus, after a good one week my mom says that the leaf node has actually opened up and given some tender green leaves. I guess my experiment seems to be working fine. Will keep you posted about the rose and possibly come back with pictures when it actually develops roots.

A Delight

I reached home finally and surprisingly found each one of my plants beaming with beautiful flowers(contrary to what my mom always described but,I never believed her). After watching so many videos as to how I could get my plants to produce huger flowers, I also got some plant food for them and believe me, the kind of feeling was just similar to what a dad feels when he comes back home with precious gifts to spoil his children and the happiness felt by him when his children jump around in excitement. I am sure that my chrysanthemums will bear many more flowers which will be huger in size and I feel confident that my roses will live for one more day to give a slap in the face of the wretched heat. I am sure that all my plants will continue to mesmerize me and make me joyous!

Coming Back Home

I must say it feels really good to be back home after so many days.The pleasure of technically doing nothing during a vacation really brings a smile on my face,especially saying a goodbye to those wreched engineering text books ,even if, for a brief period seems amazing.But the two things that made me happy on coming home were,seeing my mom after such a long time and secondly,coming back to my garden.Ofcourse nobody can ever pamper a person better than his mother.That holding true,I must also say that,hogging into some of the most amazing gastronomical delights that mummy cooks has a feeling which is absolutely special.Now,coming back to my garden,I must say that growing plants in an apartment is really tough.In the confined space allotted to me,I have around twenty plants,consisting of a combination of roses,shoe flowers,jasmines,chrysanthemums and some lovely flower bearing plants,whose names I do not know.Nevertheless,the weird connection I share with my plants is something I can never describe.However I just cannot thank my mother enough,for she takes such good care of my plants in my absense.I have loads to write but I'll save it up for my subsequent blog posts.Remembering what my best friend always says,"Blogging is really addictive!",its me signing off.