𝐒𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐬 N𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐲

I am a huge fan of Nature. I can walk into it like it was my own den. The vast expanse of woods and high grown trees never tires of telling me their stories.

At 15, I was attracted to 𝕭𝖔𝖓𝖘𝖆𝖎 upon falling in love with them at an exhibition. My enthusiasm introduced me to several lovely people who had similar hobby and would allow me to enter their protected zone. Some of them gave me inputs on how to develop them.

The Coimbatore Forest College was very near to my home and I sneaked into the wicket gate, approached the nursery in-charge who generously gave me a handful of 𝑮𝒖𝒍𝒎𝒐𝒉𝒂𝒓 seeds with a challenge that if I am successful to sprout it I will be able to make a bonsai. This variety is a very hard challenge. But I succeeded to grow lovely bonsai tree ( two of them Survived )

When I was 25 in age I still had them but only disappointment was they never flowered. It was those days when I was engaged and I for some reason could not look after them well. My mother had to throw one off as according to her it had died, I never believed it. On returning from my honeymoon I saw the second one now 11 years of age dried and uprooted from the flat basin I had provided her. She had a small flowering bud jutting out of its soft branch.

While my restricting the growth of the tree giving it unnatural ambience, it did manage to survive for 11 years and also finally succeeded in giving out a flower.

Everything in nature that finds its own way is perhaps most nonviolent and achieves its success in every step glorifying its inherent beauty for all to see.

Nature has always shown me - 𝓛𝓲𝓯𝓮 𝓯𝓲𝓷𝓭𝓼 𝓐 𝔀𝓪𝔂

Pic Location: Manjushree Tea Estate - Gudalur