Namaste to all #photography and #nature lovers.🙏
You have some time, right? Then let's start from the beginning and see what happened here.
Once upon an evening, I went out for a walk as usual and started enjoying the grass, trees, open blue sky and flowers around me. This won't be something new to you because I have already shared many stories of this walk with you.
But what happened that day was that I saw a plant among the construction debris in the bushes on one side of the park. Although there were many other plants there, this one stood out among all of them. Why? Because, firstly, it had sharp thorns and secondly, a beautiful flower of my favourite colour was blooming on it. 😍
Isn't it beautiful?
When I saw it for the first time I just stared at it for a few seconds. You may not find it that appealing, which is okay, everyone has different preferences. And anyway, the point here is not about its beauty but about the feeling and connection created between both of us.
So then after looking at it there for some time, I started my walk again but even after going back home, when I looked at these pictures again, I felt the same loving smile on my face and with that for the first time, the thought came to my mind that how lovely this flower would look in my garden. :)
Now if you want to grow a plant, you will have to bring its seed or a sapling and I had seen this plant for the first time in my life. Then Google Uncle came to my mind, I thought since there are so many thorns on the plant and some part of it looks like cactus then it must be from the cactus family, so I searched about them.
Google Uncle said that there are a total of 1750 members in this family. OMG!
I was really shocked to read this because I thought there would be only a few members in the family so I would identify her by looking at them one by one.
Just the thought of finding her on such a long list made me surrender.
Then I thought let's find out about this plant in the real world. So I showed the picture of this plant to a gardener visiting my area and said that I wanted this plant.
He said he didn't know what plant this was.
I said it's strange, being a gardener you don't know about a plant.
He said it might be a wild plant sir.
I was shocked again, the second shock on the same day.
That day I remained in self-doubt.
Then the next evening I went for a walk again and at another place, among the similar wild plants, I saw a few more plants of that beautiful variety with blooming flowers.
And my desire to have this plant in my garden was once again awakened. I thought it was possible that the gardener might not know much about different species of plants, and it's okay. I should now visit a nursery and ask about this plant, they must know and may even have it. I can buy from there!
But unfortunately, no one in the nursery had any information about this plant, I inquired about it in 2 other nurseries but they too echoed the gardener's point and said that it appeared to be a wild plant.
Now obviously I was feeling bad and when I got the same reaction from all sides then I thought OK This Is A Wild Plant and since this plant is wild.
Meaning no one has deliberately planted it here.
Meaning they will uproot these plants during maintenance
Meaning it is not anyone else's but nature's property.
So I Simply Can Take It From Here. Yess!
But deep inside I am not a bad person and there was that 1% doubt that who knows, someone might have planted them here and there. However, there was little chance of that happening because the plants were planted haphazardly as I mentioned earlier.
So I decided that I have to take out this plant from here. But for that also a small plant had to be found whose roots should not be deep in the soil so that the plant does not get harmed while removing it.
After looking a little here and there, I saw a lot of such plants. I decided that I would adopt 2 of them. Yes, for me it is an adoption but to nature or someone else, it may also seem like theft.
Then I carefully took out these plants from the ground, brought them home and planted them in separate pots.
Flowers have not yet bloomed on them, but some 2-3 bud-like bulbs are visible which will probably soon turn into flowers. 😊🌼
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That's all for today.
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