“The love of gardening is a seed once sown never dies” –
Gertrude Jekyll
Dear Self,
“The love of gardening is a seed once sown never dies” –
Gertrude Jekyll
Ms. Jeklly was blessed with green thumbs! How else could she
have created so many gardens that dot the British landscape? Ms. Jekyll never
had the pleasure of meeting you. For in you
she would have found an opposite. You don’t have just brown thumbs; in fact all
your fingers are brown!!
The most common plant, money plant is also called the
Devil’s vine because it is almost impossible to kill and grows well even
without sunlight. Well that plant finally met its match in you. Remember the
first time you decided to plant? Your mother suggested the money plant since it
was easy to grow and all one would need was water. Recollect how that turned
out? Sufficient to say there’s nothing more to write about it here. Was it over watering or too much sunlight? You
really cannot put your (brown) thumb on it, can you? Several other attempts at
growing any other plant were also met with a similar fate. You invested in
gardening books, soil manure, pesticides but the vegetation just did not get
the green!
You had to reluctantly acknowledge that your plans to own an
enviable garden were weeded out. You are like the death eater of plants. So you
let others do the gardening and sit back and enjoy the fruits of their labor.
But every now and then a seed sows itself in the brain and says
you shouldn’t give up. Maybe you should listen to it, plant it and let it
sprout!!! Don’t give up!
