For the gardeners of urban Dhaka, it’s time to prepare for winter flowers. One might say it’s too early, but October is when you need to prune your roses and feed them with compost, besides preparing beds and soil for other winter blooms.

The first time I fell in love with plants was when I saw my mother’s glossy green pothos arranged in old porcelain bowls that were slightly chipped off.

Atop the Barlekha Upazila Agriculture Office in Moulvibazar sits a delicate rooftop garden, featuring a tapestry of flowers. A whopping 250 flower varieties are blooming on this roof.

Perhaps, there is a hidden farmer in all of us. Although suppressed under the urban rat race, many secret gardeners have decided they will create a garden, however small, within the confines of their buildings.

The property owners who grow rooftop gardens in areas that fall under the city corporation and municipal territories across the country will benefit from the newly offered discount.

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.

A woman has been detained after she cut down around 100 plants from a rooftop garden of her apartment building in Savar.

Remote Char Fasson towards the southern tip of Bhola Island is not exactly the sort of place where one might expect to encounter a

HAVING had the occasion to be on the 12th floor of an apartment building in Dhaka, I was taken in by the panorama that was both breathtaking and dispiriting.