Healing garden at home!

Aakanksha N Bhardwaj

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, May 10

Her morning begins by admiring the beauty of her garden and ends by wishing them goodnight! Rajwant Kaur is a perfect example of a true nature lover. Her life revolves around plethora of plants she has planted in her house. She has a wide variety of decorative, flowering, herbal, aromatic plants that keep her elated throughout the day.

Kaur, a housewife, says even for a small area, she has worked very hard in making the house look like an abode of a person who belongs to nature. There is not even a single corner in the house which is not ‘green’.

“My kids live in Canada, and I miss them. These plants keep me away from getting depressed whenever I miss my children,” she said.

She has been using oxygen plants at her home such as snake plant, spider plant and money plant. During the Covid times, such plants help in keeping the environment safe and clean, fresh air.

Kaur said sometimes people make fun of her extra love for nature and comment on how she has changed her home into a jungle. “But I don’t care. All these greens help me breathe. I have some plants with great medicinal effects, with which my husband’s allergy also got better. He used to take a nebuliser because of the allergy but since the time I got the plants, he has recovered a lot,” she said.

He garden is also adorned with artificial decorative pieces. There is a nest too, that attracts a lot of birds, and now she plans to install more.

Although Kaur has a gardener who looks after her garden, she ensures that she remains with him whenever he comes and does cutting and ploughing. “It is not easy to see any of my plant dying. Kaur expressed.