Gardening ,is the word relates to my whole life.when i was small or say when i got to realize whats happening in our surroundings i was

introduced to the plants by my mother ,my biological mother to nature mother.she  given me the duty of giving water to the plants ,so when i water they start reacting in giving good smile,giving flowersand most important relaxatation.i started playing in around my potted plants.we also had kyari in which lots of mogra plant are there ,there fragrance was so good that i still remember after 3 decades also.

Now the time comes when i start going to the college but still my duty is to give water to the plants and also i started growing vegetables plants from the seed collected from home only,just like tomatoes,chillies. At that time not aware of fertilizer except cowdung that my mali baba bought.

At that  time,I was am having plants from 10-30 plants ,now got married where they are not so much fond of plants hardly 10 plants including tulsi ,dracaena, daffendacia. But when gardening is in your blood you cant help ,so i started buying plants while coming back from the office ,my mother in law always give me thr instructions ,now no more but DIL TO garden ha ji so i  continue buying plants ,now at that time befor my son birth i was having 300 plants ,all potted as we live in DDA Duplex flat ,so no ground .

Then a drastic change come in my life ,as my son was born , i was at home so i started getting bore .to overcome this boring so i use to  call my friends and relatives ,they started saying that we are not free we are working  you are free plz call us on Sunday .it hurts me badly because i am a person that cant tolerate any wrong thing without my fault and if my fault is there i m ready to say sorry always but not without my fault that also I learnt from my mom .

Then my better half comes as a rescue that you know gardening then start selling or do some constultancy work as lots of people need advice for the plants ,as during this  lactating period of  my son, i started watching videos and reading books on garden rather wasting timr on gossips and serials. In this way we started our gardening farm  AAKRITI PLANTERS  ,it goes up

and down as i was the one in all my realtives and friends and the society who started this different work ,not able to digest ,as what is this selling plants by an ENGINEER  in ELECTRONICS stream and is this the kind of work as females from good family do .but struggling from these i got recognize by all ,so whenever they face problem and they need plants they don’t go anywhere they just give me a call .now i am having around 600 potted plants  in a flat with a small terrace .i had planted in basin ,bathing tub ,old buckets ,in paint box ,disposable items ,made stands from window grill ,made vertical wall from old discarded irons .

My husband is a big supporter and big critics also as he wants all potted plants be in place and on stands and garden should be beautiful .he says grow as much as you can but not a single plant on way and on the floor .

During lockdown  he helped me a lot in giving water to the plants and cleaning the garden .

At the end i say that i learnt lots of from gardening and has understood that they also needs love ,care just like our kids .Daily i go to my terrace to give and take a smile from them and when coming from out of station my first job is to ask them “ARE YOU okay na ,will meet tomm”. When i go outside lots of instruction to my husband ,don’t give water to this plant .keep it in shade ,give lots to that,ha ha ha  so lastly my husband says that your plants along with you .

This is just my story 

Happy gardening