HIMANSHU GURU
The best time of the year to create a lovely flower garden in front of your home or at the rooftoop is winter. Women like
wandering through the garden with the petals kissing their dupattas softly while humming an enchanting tune. we spoke to a clutch of women enamoured of their sweet little flower gardens
Winter is the only time in the entire year when flower gardening is best possible. Women anxiously wait for the season to plant flowers in their gardens. After all, every woman wants to beautify her house, and a flower garden full of colourful flowers serves the purpose best. Orissa POST asked women about their choices and efforts and their love for beauty as manifested in their desire to nurture a lovely flower garden.
Priyanka Mishra is an IT professional from Bhubaneswar. She is fond of flowers. Since childhood she has harboured the desire to have a wonderful garden at her home. When asked about her efforts at nurturing a flower garden she said, “I hail from a well-to-do family and we have staff for every household chore. But I intentionally have not employed a gardener since I want to put my own physical effort in my garden. Like poets feel their creations are their offspring, I want to pamper my own flowers. When I look at my garden my eyes get fixed on the flowers. I have planted the seedlings. We have lily, jasmine, marigold and some other flowers in our garden.”
“Besides being a choreographer and a dancer I have great love for flowers. I feel flowers are like my dance students. As I put tough effort to groom my dancers, I also put my best effort in the garden. Of course, in both cases, the outcome is mind-blowing. Besides, I long for winter to make my dream for flowers take shape. Despite my tight work schedule I take out time for gardening in winter. I skip some of my dance assignments and give time to my beautiful garden. After all I love flowers. I have a rooftop garden and all my flower vases there are filled with flowers. Sometimes, I just sit idle in the garden and soak in the sense of satisfaction,” said Poonam from Delhi.
Arati Guru, an ayurvedic doctor from Bolangir, has a big garden. “Earlier, we didn’t have a brick fence in our garden and at times cows intruded. Though they don’t eat flower plants, cows destroy them as they rampage the garden. Thus this year, I decided first to erect a boundary wall and now my plants are safe. I have a variety of plants and shrubs in the garden. But my daughter, Aani loves flowers, and both of us have planted a variety of flower seeds. We bought them from the local market. Even, we got some for our neighbours. Now, our garden is full of colourful flowers. I roam around the garden, as after winter I won’t get the opportunity,” she said.
Sagarika Satapathy is a social media administrator from the capital city. She said, “I used to nurture a number of flower plants in our native village in Nabrangpur in my college days. After marriage, I started living in Bolangir at my hubby’s place. There we had a big garden. But as construction work was rampant there I could not fulfill my dream of growing flower plants there. I had planted some, but it didn’t fit my dream. After coming to Bhubaneswar I realised my dream. I have a lovely garden at the rooftop. But now due to the heavy winter the plants are withering. I am putting my best effort and hope the flowers will bloom in a day or two. Otherwise, I will again buy the seeds plant them in the hope of a colourful garden.”