Down the memory lane - part I

Its been quite an exciting time esp last six months - we moved back to India. We made a calculated decision to come back for good, leaving behind all the things that we loved and hated in the US. The reasons are a lot and a completely different topic ;). Now that we are back in India and kind of settled, we finally got some time to go down the memory lanes and cherish some of our wonderful moments in the US. When I think of my life in the US, for some reason I do not remember the life before marriage. May be because may be it wasn't as colorful :); I know Lovely must be smiling reading this. Since it would be too big a topic to cover in a single post, I will publish in parts; this part is dedicated to our garden.

We have grown almost all the vegetables that you can normally think of and we have grown them through out the year. We have grown chillies, capsicum, brinjal, ladies finger, onion, garlic, tomato, beans, cauliflower, broccoli and different varieties of cabbage. We have grown multiple herbs - parsley, mint, coriander, chives, methi etc. In the summers, we almost never bought tomatoes from the market and used to distribute the veggies to friends and neighbors. I normally used to take care of the veggies section and Lovely used take care of the flower section, and I do not know the names of most of the flowers except for Sun flowers, roses and hibiscus. I would leave the flower details to Lovely to fill in. One thing I really can't forget is the sun flowers; they grew more than 12 feet tall and some of the flowers were huge. I have added Sweety's pic with the sunflowers and you will see less than half the plant in the pic. Even the roses were exceptionally big in size. And not to forget the blueberry plan that yielded only one blue berry after one year.

I used to spend 1-2 hours a day with the plants either pruning them or watering them; it used to be my best time pass. I am adding some of the pics from our home garden in the US. Let me walk you through my memory lanes.
Tomatoes
Mint
Cabbage
Chillies
Brinjal
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Bell pepper
Cabbage
Ladies finger
Banana
Zinnia
Zinnia
Hibiscus
Rose
Sunflowers (& Sweety)

After coming to Bangalore, we have, fortunately, found a house that has some space for plants. We have made a fresh start, not as much as we want to but its a start. I will add those pics soon, till then have fun.

~Kiran
Green is good.