"Oh dear, just cant stop looking at you... it was my mistake of letting you starved... :(
I just cant see you die and whither away... Please wake up, show me ur bright smile u shower on me as u do every single day!
Hope to see u alrite by the evening...love you so much!"
My emotions had no bounds and was almost about to shed a tear, when I saw my Fittonia (a show plant) at my desk...
Accidentally I had forgotten to water her for two continuous days... n she never complained nor yelled at me, for treating her so badly...
But I must confess it was all my fault... of letting her starve... :(
Fed her some water, did this for every half an hour for the first of the day until I saw some of her leaves blooming back to normal, did this until every single leaf was alrite and looked happy enough!
Each time I watered, prayed God for her betterment and to forgive me...was restless until I saw her alrite, guess what she was showing the signs of improvement and was perfectly fine by the evening :)
Though they are plants, who cant respond as humans or animals, do they sense love and they do have emotions, this was told by mom wen I was a kid.
Must say my mom treats her plants like kids and she is never tired of having more than 100 and change kids ;) though she does not have a formal garden, she grows them in pots, she has 3 trees, 2 neem and 1 almond and she loves them, she grows tomatoes, coriander, mint, chillies, curry leaves, banana and many more in her well maintained pots, she spends almost 2-3 hrs a day looking after them, watering them, cleaning out the weeds if any, fertilizing them every 3 months.. she never thinks that as one of her house hold chores, she once had said that they were too like us ( me n my brother ;)
And probably this feeling and the love for plants had a strong influence on me and this I discovered only when I started to live with my husband...
A new home, new things, everything was set but still I was not satisfied and sense of incompleteness haunted me... until a New plant "Anthrium" was brought home...
From then on there were at least 2 or 3 plants at home until they withered away due to bad weather conditions ( England's weather )
At the moment I have 2 succulent plants, one Anthrium, one African Marigold and sweet Basil and the happiness is immensely infinite... while I water them, see them grow and see them glare in green and white under the bright sun :)
Wish to have a huge garden of my own and grow as many plants I like ! Or may be a Kitchen garden :) hope this dream of mine comes true...
This is my Love affair with the Green ;)
5 comments:
Nice thought of kitchen garden..love it...:-)
We hope too that ur dream comes true...
Ha ha thanks Mamatha :) , If it comes true I'l definitely share some kitchen herbs with u :D
hmmm.. green o green effect : ) I knew that you love them a lot but this post makes me feel that I should double my opinion :) will definitely try and make the kitchen-garden happen.. : )
Guess there is a reason for Nature to choose green colour for flora and the result is worthwhile : )
Hey Dear Pal,
May A fresh breeze of air, from your kitchen bushes;
Sooner bring a new atmosphere in your lives with smiles and blushes!
Thanks Nuthan for considering this thing doubly;
For my friend and your loving wife, ur the hubby lovely :)
May All your dreams come true, Pal :)
- Malavika :)
@ Lucky: Thanks a ton for those lovely lines... fantabulous way of commenting ;)
Such a Poet u are.. aren't u? :) :)
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