[Assam] Oxomiya Bagisa in Houston, Texas

Mon May 5 10:45:49 IST 2008

Hi Aradhana,
  Enjoyed reading about your adventure in gardening. The warm weather in Houston gives us a helping hand in growing Assamese plants. We did have a xewali tree in our back yard but it died after our lawn maintenance guy sprayed it with some strong fertilizer.The fertilizer probably contained weed killer. The three year old tiny tree was in shock. It looked droopy.
  I felt sad beacuse the tree was.ready to bloom. There were 82 buds. I am not kidding. I counted each bud.But all the buds fell off and the tree died. When you grow a plant from  a seed you get attached to it.
  Currently we have some Axomiya flowering plants. I purchased some from Houston Garden shops and collected some from friends, The flowers in my garden are madhabi lata , godhuli gopal, bogi tora ( Dr. Biren Dutta identified the plant's name, I didn't know) gulonchi, bokul,togor and asok phul and joba.

  Love,
  Dil

Anna Satin <annasatin at gmail.com> wrote:
  Dear Dil, Dilip & Chan:

It was real nice to see those Assamese plants growing so well in Texas. I
just hope their US
visa status is up to date!!

Believe it or not I was able to smuggle in and then grow Kath Alu in good
old NJ! That is the
good news. The bad news is that it never did come back the next year.

Two winters ago I brought a Kath Alu from my parents house in Assam to NJ
in mid-winter. I planted it
indoors in a pot and left it in a sunny place. It took almost two months
for the plant to peek out from
under the soil. Then it grew and grew. Well, it was too cold outside to
plant so I started giving it very little
water and kept it in a less sunny location. Then in mid-May with much
fanfare we planted the
very first Kath Alu in NJ. Of course we had to protect it from the ever
present deer population! Also,
we had to use strings to attach the plant to its foreign partner - the pine
tree. But unfortunately, once
outside the Kath Alu did not grow as vigorously as it did indoors. At the
end of that summer I did not
dig it out thinking may be it will resurface next spring (i.e., in
2007). Well, it did not! But I plan to
patiently wait for it this spring. If it does not sprout by June end then I
plan to dig it out and do some
detective work as to what happened. Will keep you all posted on my Kath Alu
adventure
in NJ! Incidentally, over the years I have done quite a bit of reverse
transplanting. My parents are
really igrowing flowers and vegetables (they even grow garlic, rohor dail,
etc.). They have been quite
successful in growing many vegetables I took from here including lima beans,
zuchini, brocolli,
Chinese snow peas, Chinese Bok Choy, Chinese winter melon, Chinese white
gourd, etc. It seems
seed packets from Chinese groceries do quite well in Assam!

Oh well, I can go on and on but happy gardening to all....enjoyed those
pics!
Aradhana B. Satin

On 5/1/08, Chan Mahanta wrote:
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> At 6:49 PM -0700 5/1/08, Dilip&Dil Deka wrote:
> >O'Mahanta,
> > Thanks for posting the pictures. Assamnet
> >never got around to doing it - may be the files
> >were too big.
> > The first kazinemu we got from the garden was
> >great in gin and tonic. I invite you and others
> >to come to Houston and take some of the nemus
> >from the trees.
> > O"Deka
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> >Chan Mahanta wrote:
> > The following Oxomiya plants flourishing in Dilip
> >and Dil Deka's yard in Houston:
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> >A: Oxomiya Nemutenga
> >B: Kazi nemu
> >C: Bhedai-lotaa
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> >I got a cutting for my bhedai-lotaa from them.
> >And they got their nemu and kazi nemu from us.
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> >>Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:14:31 -0700 (PDT)
> >>From: Dilip&Dil Deka
> >>Subject: Oxomiya Bagisa in Houston, Texas
> >>To: ASSAMNET
> >>Cc: Chandan Mahanta
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> >>Oxomiya Bagisa in Houston, Texas --
> >>Kazinemus growing,
> >>Nemutenga blooming,
> >>Bhedailata spreading its tentacles wherever there is water.
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> >>All authentic Oxomiya - collected from various sources, no names.
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