Pakistan Gardening Forum

A pH of 4.5 is quite acidic. When you tested this pot soil, were any plants growing in those pots or is it just fresh garden soil from a bag? If it is fresh pot soil, wash it with water till you see brown colour leaching from the bottom of them pot and let it sit for a day or so. Does the pH increas...

Thanks Farooq the first one seems to be dodonaea as i searched net after your reply. The other one i am not sure . Flowers of accaica seem to be fuzzy type. These flowers are petals type . Leaves are like pine needles and brown slim branches were bent with flowers . You are right, acacias do not ha...

Very beautiful!

Dear AYK, sometimes people don't know the solution. It is better to be quiet than to express ignorance. What solution did they suggest?

Regards.

The first picture shows the seeds of Dodonaea.

The bottom picture looks like yellow Acacia, I am not sure about the species.

Couple of years ago, Dawn newspaper had a recipe for eliminating slugs in the garden. It was most likely Zahra Nasir's article. The recipe was to place couple of cups of sugar solution, close to the ground level. Add a little bit of yeast (available from bakery). The fermenting sugar solution attrac...

Shazia Khurram wrote:Is this vine suitable for isb/Pindi region?

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I am not sure that Petrea will survive the cold weather of Islamabad. Summer should be fine.

This link will be very interesting to you: http://www.idtdna.com/pages/decoded/decoded-articles/your-research/decoded/2015/03/03/color-changing-flowers-biotechnology-for-everyone Basically, it seems that if we modify the "internal" cell pH of flower cells, the flower color will be differen...

Very interesting question but most likely extremely complex answer. I wish we knew the answer. Some flowers change color due to soil pH. Sometimes, the presence of aluminum can make drastic changes. Sometimes, it is a genetic mutation. I will ask a botanist friend.

Very true, Izhar. FB version is a merely a show-case or a vase of flowers.