The pre-winter mild sun was
shining. Winter was not around just yet. As soothing as the air was, in the
corner of our empty tiny roof-top garden shades of a sweet soft mauve was peeping.
This was just late November.
It was the first burst of flowers in the garden which
through out the post monsoon season was regaining its strength and trying to get back
to set the get going for the winter. Most seasonal seedlings had and were just being planted for the tropical winter, which along with spring are the most
bright colour-filled phases of the garden year. We wait for the winter air to
slowly set in as the warmth-humidIty of the summer monsoon transforms to the more cooler end of the temp scales. As if opening the doors for the garden colours, this soothing mauve climber, like bunches of
winter plumerias arrives each year at this time to fill their climbing bush.
And what a pleasure and joy it is to just watch them. And to truly capture some of its
pleasure, we cannot miss to take
a bunch home to make their places in delicate glass vases.
Similar is the orange scented
shrub which usually gets fllled around this time.
The jasmines open up from their buds after nightfall to slowly drop off by early hours of the morning as five-petal, white flowers with tiny orange stalks, to
adorn the ground with delicate flowers forming a carpet on the dew laden ground. Amazing is the
sight! The
jasmine’s fine scent is found in its orange stub. Also, when we looked around, as
if to practice before their major bloom, their spray of spring colours, the bougainvilleas are getting
ready. They are now just lightly draped with small bunces of colours as
if asking us to wait to see their true burst in a month's time or so, that's when
their pigment factories will put the maximum thrust and burst into their
spectacular shades !!!!
This year I got delayed in planting the seedling and thought
the garden looked very empty in December 2014. We had a spell of winter chill,
days of no sunlight, in fact we did have even days of persistant heavy fog. So the seedlngs planted didn't seem to grow or thought they didn't have the energy to bloom. After
that spell, I gave up. Suddenly, the weather came to our favour, the temperature started rising, and we started
getting some sunlight. Then, after that as we crossed over to 2015, suddenly we
had this colour burst of “MUMs”. As if suddenly everything woke up. And Wow,
look at their spectacular colours and varieties we got this year!! The
yellow curly ones, very charismatic, and then alot more yellows in all sizes, then we have the
