I feel I should write every
detail of my grandmother’s vast garden.
We have a small cottage adjacent to the main building, it is surrounded by
full of greens, long pathways, a big well, and flower garden protected with
high walls on both sides. She had a vast collection of flower plants like Parijatha, Rose, holy basil, fierce cracker,
variety of jasmine, chrysanthemum white and yellow, red and off-white Hibiscus,
etc… There is one coconut tree, many
clusters of plantain, Yam, and a few papaya trees. The second part of the long pathway is full
of the same flower plants, big mango and tamarind tree, the cluster of Papaya and Yam..etc.
Her creeper garden is just too close to the cottage where we spend our afternoon
playing board games with our grandmother.
She does not like us to wander out of the house with our friends in the
afternoon, so she compulsorily makes us sit and play snake and ladder, board
game, and some traditional board games, most of the time the game ends up with
big chaos and we all leave for an afternoon nap.
Actually this cottage is used for storing
wooden logs, cow dung patties, big vessels for cooking on special occasions
like marriage, yearly homage to ancestors and fire sacrifices.