In the last few years, the terrace garden became quite popular in this capital city - Dhaka. During Covid people invested a lot in this and now it became an excellent practice for city dwellers. It always amazes me how in a small space people grow so many things.
Recently, I have seen the news that an elderly man even grew 'rice paddy' on the rooftop. Can you believe that?
It was an honor for me to have the opportunity to visit one of my relative's rooftop garden. They set up the garden just in a month, and all the plants and trees are very new. But guess what, some of them are already flowering! I'm so happy to see the garden.
Let me show you some photos.
I would like to start with this mango tree. It's so small, hybrid, and already buds can be seen. Hopefully, in the next month or so they will have some delicious mango as well.
Banana
Sapodilla
They mostly planted fruits and vegetables, not flowers. Though I'm a flower person, still I liked the idea. In a place like this, they easily can have some fresh homegrown food.
Another mango plant.
Jujube
It was the happiness and pride for me in their eyes. I felt so happy seeing their joy in showing me the garden and introducing me to all the plants and upcoming fruits/vegetables.
Elephant apple
Lemon
No need to say that this setup costs a lot. Also, it takes a lot of time to maintain them every single day. Good for them that they have both.
Hog plum
Dragon fruit
The whole garden covered around 2000 sqft. It may sound nothing special but as a rooftop garden, it's sure massive. Also, I have counted that they have around 100 plants/pots including some flowers as well that I'm sharing in this post.
Pumpkin bud
Bean
I wonder what the terrace would look like without all this. Walking around made me feel how little it takes to make us happy.
You can see the high rises around the building. This city is getting green-less day by day. Seeing this huge garden sure gave me hope. The garden was not like any rural place, now it brought much green. But it was special, a small initiative to make a huge chance, a chance for the future.
I don't have access to our terrace. But I have some small plants on my balcony. I wish I could increase the number of my plants day by day.
Plants are an enormous source of energy and happiness to me. I hope you too liked the garden. What do you think?
2000 Sq feet is not small! Lucky them. It makes me very happy to know people are growing food and ornamentals whereever they can. Imagine all rooftops with food growing on them! I'm happy for them.
I sometimes literally imagine, how this city would look if every rooftop would have a garden. It would be a whole different story.
I have never seen a mango plant so small, in my backyard, there are giant mango trees. I would like to show them to you but I don't have pictures right now :(
I know. The regular mango trees are giant but these hybrid/cross ones became very popular here over the last decade. They are small in size and can be grown in pots but gives a lot of fruit, at least 50 from one tree. Isn't it amazing?
Don't worry, we have a lot of mango plants in our backyard and I'm quite familiar with how big they can get.
Have a great day.
Wait what??????? I mean, aren't the branches too thin for the mango to grow? Doesn't it break the branches? Or is it a kind of smaller mango? I've never seen one before, that's amazing!
Have an amazing day too <3
Nope, the mangoes can grow bigger than our hand palm. I believed as they are cultured/genetically modified they are built this way.
I'm sharing a YT link here so you can get an idea of what I'm talking about.
This can be a real problem solver to modern agri and especially urban fruit production.
We learn something new every day! I never expected to see a mango growing on a tree that size.
When I go back to living in some city and not in a small town this will be an idea I would love to consider. Mango is one of my favorite fruits :)
Amazing this is the revolution once we take back our food and nature we are unstoppable. Great work🙏🏽
Not only do green areas increase our mental health and reduce stress, but they also provide food and help the local ecosystem.
I agree, green brings so much more; it is a whole thing with all the positive impacts. I wish our cities would be much greener in upcoming days.
For sure. It will come🙏🏼
Hi @rem-steem
This is a nice terrace garden that you shared in the post. You have done nice work on your terrace to build this awesome garden. Thanks for sharing with us.
Do you know, we have today's theme as GreenTuesday on LeoThreads and you can share anything like a picture, an idea, a thought, or anything that you like.
Thanks for your appreciation, while this is not my garden but one of my relatives, I wish I could have a place like this.
Also, thanks for letting me know about GreenTuesday, I will check it out.
Have a good day.
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I'm hearing so much about thread, need to check out. Thanks.
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that was great terrace garden :)
Thanks :)