Alamu's Thotta

First Orange 🍊 fruit grown at my terrace garden for this season is always Special. Citrous tastes like honey.

First Citrus fruit grown at my terrace is always special. It's amazing fragrance is unique and powerful to give a fresh facelift to the ambience.

மணத்தக்காளி பழங்கங்கள் (Manhattan fruits) plucked from its greens at my terrace derive rich benefits for mouth ulcers and other gastro intestinal disorders and could be consumed even raw and fresh apart from kitchen recipes.

These lovely Brahma Kamalam flowers that blossomed suddenly late last evening at our terrace are the most pleasing and proud assertion of beautiful masterpieces engulfed in all the best available on this planet. Their rich fragrance spells out musical melody rendered from the lips of our Mother Earth.

Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom as they speak out Divine fragrance silently, in a language known only to the heart. 💐💐💐

Mango tender leaves at my terrace (கொழுந்து) in it's original catchy Beauty

Terrace grown Turmeric which was sliced and dried earlier is now powdered for edible use as food additive. When mixed with black pepper powder and hot milk, it serves as a fine *Haldi Doodh* which forms healthy beverage. It may also be used as a First Aid natural healer for bruises and cuts as a fine antiseptic agent.

*ORGANIC DRY COMPOST*

This nutritious plant food supplement is made from peels of vegetables, onion, garlic, egg shells, etc (that we usually dump as waste). Collect them daily and get it dried in open sunlight and then powdered using Mixie.

Three table 🥄 spoons of this organic mixture can be sprinkled on the top layer of the flower pots regularly to get maximum colourful yield of flowers. The compost can be preserved for months together. It adds immense nutrition to homegrown plants and is very easy to prepare.

This process also helps nullify throwing of wet vegetable waste into the dustbins.

Lovely buds of rare Brahma Kamalam (Saussurea obvallata) crop up in this monsoon. It is so unique and amazing to find that the flowers grow only from the edges of it's leaves and blossoms only late in the night. This monsoon season would fetch lots of these rare flowers that grow in non humid and chilly weather conditions.

It's always a beautiful sight to find these tender and curly banana leaves (சுருள் வாழை இலை) getting unfolded by the soft and chilly breeze. It gives the same feeling as if our Mother Nature cheerfully extends her Greetings early in the morning.

These huge leaves of mini yams (seppaikizhangu) grown on pots is a direct substitute for onions for making any snacks or curries. Healthy and Tasty.

Aloes (கற்றாழை)
Plant finds rich multipurpose medicinal value which can be cultivated without much efforts at terrace and Balcony/corridors.

Archanai pookal

We tried once to grow these rare Brahma Kamalam flowers (Saussurea obvallata) at our doorsteps which is a native species to the Himalayas, Himachal Pradesh Uttarakhand, Mongolia, northern Burma and southwest China. In the Himalayas, it is found at an altitude of around 4500 m and happens to be the state flower of Uttarakhand. These rare flowers usually bloom it best during July and August and are getting ready for pollination.

Fresh Mint leaves (புதினா கீரை) adds nutrious taste to any recipe and grows abundantly. The stems could be sown again after peeling of it's leaves for the next harvest to get a regular yield.

Heavy late night showers accompanied by Lightning and Thunder ⚡ cannot stop these bunch of lovely flowers to blossom for the day's yield.

These decorative money plants (Epipremnum aureum) grows in abundance without much efforts but brings huge green ambience to corridors and terrace.

*மாடி தோட்டத்தில் இரண்டு மாஞ்செடிகள்.* ரசித்து ருசித்து சாப்பிட்ட மாம்பழ கொட் டை மூலம் வளர்த்தது. இலைகள் பூஜை கலச அலங்கார விசேஷங்களுக்கு பயன் தருகிறது. தேவைப்பட்டால் பிறகு இதன் கன்றுகளை நிலத்தில் ஊன்றினல் பெரிய மரமாக வளரும்.
Mango plants grown at terrace from seeds of sweet variety fruits. The leaves find immense use for daily pooja activities and regular religious ceremonies. If required, later on, these plant saplings could be sown on land to grow them into big trees.

These huge Banana leaves grown at terrace shows the gratitude that the Nature showers on us if we keep whispering our sincere prayers for the wellness of all to get relieved from this pandemic hurting the mankind.

These flowers often challenges to explore one's decorative skills.

It's always pleasing to eyes when the day starts with these smiling beauties at 🤣😃 my terrace.

Lovely leaves from Taro plant needs to be admired for few days before it's root vegetables (seppaikizhangu) are removed for edible use.

These rare variety brinjals grown in our terrace make a taste curry for the lunch.

Moringa Oleifera (செடி முருங்கை கீரை) from the terrace Muringa tree, Hy peranthera Moringa oleifera (botanical name ) also called ''Indian horse-radish " (drumstick) alongwith tasty green chillies and baby tomatoes make a nice and healthy hot evening snacks when cooked with finely powdered coconut grates and groundnuts.