gardening

#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.

The well-crafted balcony garden

Gardening does not have to be limited to spacious lawns, roomy rooftops or terraces. Balconies can easily be transformed into a lush patch of greenery, regardless of its size.

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.

September 4, 2023
September 4, 2023

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.’

August 21, 2023
August 21, 2023

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!

August 14, 2023
August 14, 2023

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.

July 2, 2023
July 2, 2023

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.

May 21, 2023
May 21, 2023

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.

November 20, 2022
November 20, 2022

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.

October 1, 2022
October 1, 2022

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.

September 30, 2021
September 30, 2021

The well-crafted balcony garden

Gardening does not have to be limited to spacious lawns, roomy rooftops or terraces. Balconies can easily be transformed into a lush patch of greenery, regardless of its size.

February 18, 2018
February 18, 2018

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.

February 3, 2018
February 3, 2018

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

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