Orchid Day | 5% for SL Charity

When it comes to the home garden, most of the time it is maintained by Mom. It is the case for our garden too. She has grown many varieties of plants and take care of them like she takes care of us.

I am not sure that I will be able to maintain a garden this much smoothly like she does. There is a reason why I told it. Past few months I have helped her time to time. When pandemic came, we were all trapped inside our houses. The only place we could go out is our garden.

_{Purple color orchid}

Because of that we have grown plants time to time. I have also tried. Sometimes I plant some seed or little plants and forget about it for weeks and suddenly remember after a while. But they are dead without any care. That’s why I cannot make a garden like my mom.

_{Kandyan Dancer}

One day I bought some orchid specific fertilizer because we had some plant without flowers. It needs to mix with water and spray. This was done by me for past few months. There are instructions in it how we should use it. I have used two types of fertilizers. One is to enhance blooming and other one is to enhance the growing new plants.

_Fertilizer

Since I started my job last month, I couldn’t take care of orchids about a month. Yesterday, we didn’t had much sunlight at the afternoon. So I remembered that I could spray the fertilizer. When I searched for spray bottle, my dad has used it for some other work and he told me not to use it again to spray fertilizer. I was helpless. Then I saw an empty dish wash bottle and decided to use it.

_{White will bloom soon}

There is this purple color orchid, it didn’t had any flowers for years when we first got it. But now it doesn’t have a time we cannot see flowers. And others are blooming time to time. But brown one hasn’t bloomed yet.

_{New roots}

When I was doing my work, I saw there are new plants with some white roots. And I am waiting to see them grow and bloom.