How can green be the colour of envy?!
A late bloomer, I have only now dared to have something more than tulsi in my balcony. First a friend's photos of the flowers on her windowsill used to have me longing for blooms of my own. But I didn't think I quite had the green thumb. Then another friend put up photos and now that my kids are older, I started thinking, why not.
Today I have a few - not many, but just enough to fill my heart with contentment. Each new leaf brings joy over the fact that the plant survived another day and will survive another fills the heart with a pleasure that can only be compared to watching your children achieve the milestones. One variety, which my maid calls patrose, blooms almost everyday and each morning, the sight of the three different colours that burst forth in the pot makes me hum. As the regular rose burst forth in new leaves, I detect small buds that I am waiting will bloom. The hibiscus came with a bud that withered. But now I detect a few in the plant as I examine it closely. My jasmine stopped awhile, but new leaves are erupting forth...
Imagine having a garden full of plants and trees, a street full of them, a world filled with greenery... Can we reverse the trend and work towards increasing the world's green cover? It can only give joy, isn't it? Do we have the heart to relish it?
A late bloomer, I have only now dared to have something more than tulsi in my balcony. First a friend's photos of the flowers on her windowsill used to have me longing for blooms of my own. But I didn't think I quite had the green thumb. Then another friend put up photos and now that my kids are older, I started thinking, why not.
Today I have a few - not many, but just enough to fill my heart with contentment. Each new leaf brings joy over the fact that the plant survived another day and will survive another fills the heart with a pleasure that can only be compared to watching your children achieve the milestones. One variety, which my maid calls patrose, blooms almost everyday and each morning, the sight of the three different colours that burst forth in the pot makes me hum. As the regular rose burst forth in new leaves, I detect small buds that I am waiting will bloom. The hibiscus came with a bud that withered. But now I detect a few in the plant as I examine it closely. My jasmine stopped awhile, but new leaves are erupting forth...Imagine having a garden full of plants and trees, a street full of them, a world filled with greenery... Can we reverse the trend and work towards increasing the world's green cover? It can only give joy, isn't it? Do we have the heart to relish it?
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