March updates after three years in our Indian garden

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Hello, friends and hive garden community, all hive gardeners greetings from India. Finally started internet after 2 weeks. Last three years missing this place. when we arrived we are disappointed after seeing the condition of the garden. Some of our favorite flowering plants disappeared. luckily the fruit trees all survived but some were in bad shape. many of the coconut trees are not bearing well like before. Our caretaker has done his duty to keep the garden clean and tidy. But he was not very clever to take care of each plant in the garden as we do. Meanwhile, one water pump was broken and there was no water for some plants. We have only sand here so no vegetable garden but we have plenty of coconuts, cashews, sapota, and Alphonso mangoes which survive in this sandy soil. My Shatavari and star fruit doing well all curry plants were just like sticks. Many hibiscus plants and night blossom were almost dying but should be revivable with some regular watering. now mango season will start and some mangoes will be there but some trees did not flower. the cashew trees are doing well and we will start harvesting soon. here is a glimpse of our garden.

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Normally his area was full with all different flowerjng bushes now it is almost empty.

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the starflower bushes, milkweed, bourgainville, lemongrass and mogra all look messy. i

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Luckily some mangoes are flowering and some mangoes are visible and should ripen soon if we are able to keep the monkeys away.

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lemongrass and star flower bush.

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these mango flowers are unusually late this year .

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We had many different ornamental and medicinal plants

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Cashews still in flower along side young cashews forming below their auxillary fruits.

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My red hibiscus just few sticks are alive.

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Instead of 10 12 flowers everyday. only one flower I had seen since we came.

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The same with orange color hibiscus.

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The organic turmeric. just few left.

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The big curry plants are totally dried up but should come back quickly with some generous watering. this one was new I found

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First-time fruits on our starfruit tree since it was 10 years old.
we cannot expect big fruits as the tree is growing in pure sand

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Nice beautiful flowers of star fruit.

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a pine needle carpet on top of some rotting logs full of dried upfungi

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I am happy to see shatavari in good shape. this is an important medicinal plant

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Some fruits on sapota tree monkeys are most days here to eat them.

This is my March update Thank you very much for stopping by.

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good to see some things survived. it must be hard growing a gaarden in pure sand!

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The garden looks so tranquil

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thank you.🙏😊

This is a heavenly place. The fruits are amazing and how great would it be to have monkeys hanging around. Nice to see you posting again. Thanks for sharing.😊❤️

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yes, it is but this time it looks like a child without parents. Now after a week, they are started getting green. and looking forward to seeing them back in the shape. thank you, dear friend take care must be cold there I heard from a friend of mine in Norway again -6 C with ice cold wind. hope your place is not badly affected by winter. a hug 😊💓

That's lovely garden updates.

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thank you very much🙏😊

Amazing that so many things can grow in just sand!

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It is amazing if you had read my Indian garden posts you will see how beautiful it was.
Thank you for stopping by, greetings🙏💓

Although not everything is as we would like it to be, there is hope, I know how sad and frustrating it can be to see the plants between dry, half, dead and completely dead, but there is only one alternative to continue with this task until the goal is achieved.

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After pruning and watering some of them started green and it feels good. hope, before we will back to Norway the garden, will be in good shape. thanks for stopping by Greetings 🙏💓

It must have been heartbreaking to find your beloved garden in such a state. But with a lot of hard work it will be satisfying to bring it all back to life and get it looking lovely again.

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It is a lot to do and we are all the time busy with pruning watering and finding some new substitutes. and it is helping some are started getting green with new leaves and flowers, and buds which makes us very happy meanwhile cashews are in the middle of the season last three years cashew nuts have been totally thrown out conditions. Mango trees give us little happiness mangoes will be ready after 15 days and this is surprising because we never get mangoes before the end of May. we will see how it works out. Greetings from us
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Some of the plants need water indeed. Glad that despite the neglect of your caretaker to give the plants some more tender love and care, they are surviving and like you said, may recover when generous watering especially that they are growing on pure sand.

!LUV

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Hope they will be in good shape soon we are doing our best to bring the garden back in good condition, and working hard. we will see how it will transform. Thanks for your kind words. A hug 🙏💓

All the best to you as you work on to bring back your garden to its vibrant state♥️

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Thank you dear a hug😊💓

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Glad to see your mango bearing fruits already, as for me, my favorite mango hasn't been flowering yet.

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This year only two trees are flowering we have 7 trees. I think this year's mango season is not so good. The neighbors also talk about it. Greetings 😊🙏