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IF A garden flowering in gay abandon is not possible as you live in an apartment, it is still not difficult to indulge your green thumb.
If your balcony is small and you also have to accommodate a clothesline, then choose plants that are short like varied crotons and ferns. Float a few pygmy lilies in a deep terracotta uruli with a few guppies thrown in. The fish will love to nibble at the roots, will keep the mosquito larvae out and add effect to the cream shaded flowers. You might even find Thumbelina floating on a lily pad!
String up a few baskets of purple hearts and mother-in-law's tongue. Petunia's, Bizzy Lizzy and the Four O' Clock plant are great flowering favourites. They need plenty of morning sunshine.
The yellow and Buddha bamboos are good for feng shui and need plenty of water and sunshine. Money plants need little sunlight and can be grown in pots with moss sticks or in bottles and stay evergreen and brighten kitchen counters.
If you like a kitchen patch try your hand at coriander, curry leaves and aloe vera. The latter especially is multi-purpose - it serves as medicine for burns, smoothens cracked heels, is a moisturiser and keeps out mosquitoes.
Most balcony plants should be exposed to the morning sun and if your apartment is your dream house then your balcony can be your imaginative corner.
D.A.
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