Flower garden

Catering up to 100 orders daily, Parvathy Mohanan turned her gardening hobby into a portulaca flowers business. She shares how she became a commercial gardener by chance.

Poonam Arora moved from Delhi to Dehradun and started gardening full-time. With over 300 varieties of plants in her home garden, she posts her learnings on her YouTube channel too.

Ram Vilas Singh, a businessman, started his gardening journey in 1997 with eight pots. Now, his terrace garden has almost all varieties of seasonal as well as exotic vegetables, fruits, flowers and ornamental plants.

As we gear up for the monsoon season, here are some helpful tips and hacks to keep your plants and garden safe from the incessant rain.

Kusini Jyothi Priyanka, a resident of Bhadrachalam, Telangana is growing 20 varieties of seasonal flowers, and a wide variety of vegetables in 700 pots on her 600 sq ft terrace.

In 2016, Samir Badal, an industrialist in Telangana, started an orchid farm because he wanted to try something new and was always fond of growing plants.

A resident of Kalyangiri, Hashmath Fathima started gardening seriously when she moved to her current house in Mysuru about 26 years ago.