OUR ROOTS
A garden for everyone.
Secret Garden Diaries is a free guide to growing a little more green in Indian homes.
Useful knowledge, honestly shared
Our starter library combines original educational summaries with links to agricultural references. Regional calendars are broad draft guidance until locally reviewed; growing success depends on variety, elevation, weather and your growing space. A reference is not an endorsement of this website.
Five languages, one shared curiosity
Plant names, summaries, core care guidance and main navigation are available in English, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil and Bangla. Translations are editorial drafts. Some detailed guides and account controls currently fall back to English, clearly labelled where article content is missing.
Sources
Tamil Nadu Agricultural University Agritech · Indian Council of Agricultural Research · Telangana Horticulture
Photography
Plant photographs have individual source and licence credits on each plant page. Editorial garden imagery: Unsplash, under the Unsplash Licence. See the bundled ASSET_CREDITS.json for exact source records. Images illustrate plants and gardening; they do not guarantee a particular variety.
| Image | Creator / source | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| coriander | Thamizhpparithi Maari | CC BY-SA 3.0 Resized, JPEG re-encoded, metadata removed. Display may crop. |
| mint | Simon Eugster -- Simon 13:07, 2 July 2006 (UTC) | CC BY-SA 3.0 Resized, JPEG re-encoded, metadata removed. Display may crop. |
| tomato | Softeis | CC BY-SA 3.0 Resized, JPEG re-encoded, metadata removed. Display may crop. |
| tulsi | Shashidhara halady | CC BY-SA 3.0 Resized, JPEG re-encoded, metadata removed. Display may crop. |
| marigold | See source page | CC BY-SA 3.0 Resized, JPEG re-encoded, metadata removed. Display may crop. |
| spinach | Rasbak | CC BY-SA 3.0 Resized, JPEG re-encoded, metadata removed. Display may crop. |
| fenugreek | Thamizhpparithi Maari | CC BY-SA 4.0 Resized, JPEG re-encoded, metadata removed. Display may crop. |
| okra | Earth100 | CC BY-SA 3.0 Resized, JPEG re-encoded, metadata removed. Display may crop. |
| aloe | Collage by en:User:MidgleyDJ , original images from Wikimedia commons ( Image:Aloe_vera_offsets.jpg and Image:Aloe_vera_C.jpg ) | CC BY-SA 3.0 Resized, JPEG re-encoded, metadata removed. Display may crop. |
| hibiscus | Andy / Andrew Fogg from near Cambridge, UK | CC BY 2.0 Resized, JPEG re-encoded, metadata removed. Display may crop. |
| pothos | Mokkie | CC BY-SA 3.0 Resized, JPEG re-encoded, metadata removed. Display may crop. |
| garden | Unsplash contributor (see original image source) | Unsplash License Resized and re-encoded |
| seedlings | Unsplash contributor (original linked image) | Unsplash License Resized, display-cropped |
| chilli | Persium | CC BY-SA 4.0 Resized, JPEG re-encoded, metadata removed. Display may crop. |
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Optional weather
Forecasts, when enabled, come from Open-Meteo, with CC BY 4.0 attribution. Weather is supplementary and may be unavailable. No location permission is requested.