The nursery graduation

The only constant is change. Nature has set everything on a never ending path of  change and evolution. Our city Bengaluru is no exception to this. When looked at a time wrap of 5 to 6 years, several things have changed, one such noticeable change is the massive growth in number of nurseries.

I am not talking about the nursery where you send your child to learn, i am talking about the nursery from where you bring home a child to learn! The plant nursery.

A nursery in Gokula main road

I remember that until a few years ago, catering to gardening interests were occasional make shift nurseries in vacant plots and certain vendors who came around with soil and plants in a push cart. Other than these, one had to go to GKVK or Lalbagh to get tools, seeds, soil, manure or saplings. But that has changed over time, now there are nurseries in almost every major road and every few kilometres. When you notice that there is a nursery even in the prime Koramangala area right opposite to Forum & next to Bosch, where there used to be an empty parking area, you can't help but think real estate cost doesn't seem to be an issue for the nursery business. This might very well be true looking at the number of people taking interest in gardening. I am seeing more number of people with plants in their house and more number of plants per house than what i had seen 5 to 7 years ago.

Gardening is a penance, a tapass really (though penance mat not exactly convey the meaning of tapass). It teaches you patience, hope, positivity & perseverance. This is especially true if you are growing for harvest, such as flowers or vegetables. You make a decision once - of growing & what to grow. From there it takes months & months of continuous caring with very little visible difference. You cannot get a vegetable or flower the next day of sowing, you cannot even see a difference in the plant between two days but you still have to water it everyday, fertilize it, keep the bugs away and keep doing it. Then once at the end of several months you will be rewarded and the joy of that reward is simply delightful. Though the harvest is only the secondary reward, for the process over those few months would have changed you and rewarded you with patience & perseverance. So, it's great to see more people taking to gardening and the growing support system for gardening.

Plants section of the huge nursery at Agara lake

Pots & planters section of the huge nursery at Agara lake

 What i like even better is the diversification and expertise that's becoming available in the nurseries. They have become a one stop shop for everything from planters to seeds to fertilizers to even tips and best practice sharing.