What a beautiful and soothing sight of flowers in full bloom.
Yellow Bells(Tecoma stans), Bigenvillea, Garlic Vine (Mansoa aliacea)
For some time now, every day during my morning walk I enjoy the beauty of Yellow Bells, Bigenvillea and Garlic Vine In full bloom. These beautiful plants belong in the garden of Mr Yemde in my neighbourhood.
Thank you Mr Yemde for giving such pleasure to all passers-by who care to look.
The house was very much there when we moved to our house almost 26 years back. So their house may have been built before 30 years or more. Generally, houses of those times were single or two-storied. Rarely three stories or more.
Houses were built-in part of the plot as permissible by building rules and the remaining area left open to the sky. Hardly any paved area for parking or such.
Most of the owners planted a garden in the remaining portion of the plot. Like the one, we see in the picture above. It gave pleasure to the owner as well as passers-by.
During monsoon, in this portion rainwater was soaked by earth helping in maintaining groundwater level.
As the ownership of such houses passed to the next generation, invariably the house was sold to builders.
Older, single/ two stories houses were replaced by multistoried houses.
In such multistoried buildings with many flats, vehicles of flat owners were parked on the roadside creating traffic problems.
To overcome this, rules were made to cater for parking at the ground level or underground. This resulted in every square inch of the plot area to be paved with tiles.
Gardens vanished.
Sadly flower blooms of Yellow Bells, Bigenvillea and Garlic Vine In full bloom in the gardens of roadside houses which gave pleasure to many are vanishing.
To bring back such vanishing sights, I wish our lawmakers make it compulsory to plant a garden of reasonable size in each and every building as they had made rules for solar water heater, rain harvesting and parking.
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