Somu and his garden

 

When we purchased our house it was surrounded by a huge grass land around it. Today also towards the side there is just an empty expanse of grass. But Somu spent a lot of time trying to develop a garden. We had to first plan the design and earmark the place. Though we do not have much space but only a small one something which one can afford in the city, Somu has been able to have two small lawns, few flower beds and a small kitchen garden.Somu loves to do gardening and he will not trust even a gardener to touch his plants. He just gets help from Kistayya who is like a man Friday and he drops in when ever he feels like. Hence most of the garden work is done by Somu himself. He stats planning what flowers to put in the beginning of the season. We are also able to get some vegetables from the Kitchen garden. In the beginning we would get a large number of pumpkins, brinjals. Now also I manage to get a large amount of leafy vegetables, green beans, Radish, Coriander and Chili's. It is nice to know that one can just walk outside and get coriander and Chili's. The garden is filled with roses of every hue and color . In winter the small patch of land which is our garden is a riot of colours. We have Crossandra,roses, Eranthemum,Petunia, Amaryllis Lily besides the seasonal flowers. We have immortalized our first roses  that cam up in our garden by digitising them and they hang in a frame in our Veranda. Somu takes care of his flowers like his children.  Every morning before going to his Office he has to spend some time going around his garden. When ever he comes back from tour he first goes round his plants and tells us you have killed this plant and you have killed this one. I have also now started enjoying the garden.