gardening
#Hobbies / Want plants? Try these low-maintenance greens that are hard to kill!
Craving the beauty of nature without the burden of constant care? Low-maintenance plants offer the perfect solution. These 7 dauntless greens thrive with less attention, making them the best for those with busy lifestyles, or who simply prefer a more relaxed approach to gardening.
Hats off to our green heroes!
The first time I fell in love with plants was when I saw my mother’s glossy green pothos arranged in old porcelain bowls that were slightly chipped off.
#Hobbies / The fascinating world of bonsai
The word Bonsai (often misspelled as Bonzai or Banzai) is a Japanese term which literally translates to ‘planted in a container.’
#Hobbies / Plants keep dying on you? Here's 5 apps that can help you with the plants
Here, we have gathered a list of 5 gardening apps that can enhance your gardening experience and make it more fulfilling!
#Perspective / Consequences of climate change on gardening
People who grow crops and those who garden are often the first ones to sense any climate changes. These people also watch these changes first-hand because they spend a considerable amount of their time in and with nature.
#Guides / How to start a rooftop flower garden during monsoon
Urban cities do not have the luxury of an expansive garden but this article will give you some tips on how to make the best space on your rooftops for a truly unique flower garden lush with life and vibrant with colours.
#Gardening / Practising mindfulness through gardening
For an avid gardener, what a joy it is to watch saplings grow and thrive from their seedbeds! Your garden can give you a comforting space to contemplate and release stress. Gardening is a wonderful way to discover inner peace. And this is what mindfulness is about—being fully present and aware of what is occurring inside and outside of ourselves. Hence, gardening and mindfulness perfectly complement each other.
#Reviews / Green Me: Welcoming greenery and sustainability at your doorsteps
Who does not love to walk barefoot on the dewy grass and bask in the freshness of nature? Nature heals, and studies show that being surrounded by greenery can reduce our stress, anxiety, and even anger, and generate pleasant feelings. Nowadays, we find the sight of vegetation in the urban areas of our country very rarely, and it seems like Dhaka has been rid of its greenery completely. To promote urban plantation, Green Me — an urban greening and farming service provider — started its journey in 2019.
#Perspective / Autumn has arrived!
I smell the fragrance of fall in the air. The morning air is crisp, the leaves are turning, the days are getting shorter, and the temperature is dipping. The quilts are out, the comforters are in. Summer dresses are out, sweaters and light jackets are in. While the aforementioned changes are easier to adjust to, it is my garden and its changing appearance that asks me of my patience, for it is going to be a long wait before my garden dresses up in a myriad of colours afresh.
Giant London glasshouse to reopen with world's rarest plants
A gleaming monument to the ambition and creativity of its age, the world's largest Victorian glasshouse will once again welcome visitors to see some of the world's rarest plants following a lengthy facelift.
A charitable garden
To wander around Bakdokra village in Saidpur upazila is to be greeted by a sea of green. Along the embankments of a disused Teesta
Culinary herb gardening
Gardening as a hobby can undergo several phases in our lives as our love from roses to orchids or from bonsais to culinary herbs resonate with our changing ages.
Fill your gardening appetite despite limited space
In Dhaka, what has been looked down upon as a city brimming with concrete walls, you can make a change of your own and spread more green to the ash – despite limited space.