Reimaging the house

The one person whom I thanked whole of the lockdown and later this year was  Gardener Hanumantha. 

From a couple of years I started with reimaging our old house mostly from outside to make it look different from other houses in the neighborhood. 

One time when my niece LittleM was here and she told me that the entrance gate of all the 3-4 houses looked the same.. Same design and same color and it is confusing.. she surprised me with her observation which was actually true.. Which led me to the project of Reimaging.

My idea here was to keep flowering pots at the entrance and outside the house..

I did not know how to start since before that , I had not touched or watered a single plant!

After much search I found a person Hanumantha who was selling plants and other gardening essentials near my house. On one of the days in December about 4 years back, I got more than 30 big and medium sized flower pots and planters. We could only place non flowering plants at the house entrance as there was no much Sun light there. There were 2-3 big old trees on our road which blocked Sun light completely.

Though these were non-flowering these gave immense joy and much needed look to the house.

Just few days before the lockdown I thought of getting some more places mainly flowering ones for the terrace. Here there was ample of space and Sun. On one weekend I furnished the terrace with the samplings.

And then there was this lockdown!

we were confined to the boundaries of the house and with no social contact. Nevertheless we had the company of these lovely, tender and colourful friends..jasmine, hibiscus, kanakambara, variety of roses..etc..

Everyday I would water and see how much the plants have grown.. Is there a bud anywhere.. is the plant growing or not.. It also gave a wonderful view from my window where I had my work table.

These plants constantly reminded me of Hanumantha and his help with my gardening.. Be it soil, manure or medicines Totally, he helped us and my lovely garden be lively!