Do you remember the last few weddings you attended? How many of the return gifts are still with you? The steel box, the decorative showpiece, the scented candle that never got lit? Most of us can’t remember. Many of these gifts end up in a cupboard, get passed on to someone else, or get thrown […]
Every year, as Diwali comes closer, the same question pops up in every office: what should we gift this time? Sweets get finished in two days. Dry fruit boxes look the same everywhere. Gift vouchers feel a bit cold. This is why more companies are now choosing plant gifts. This is the trend now because […]
Every year around November, I notice the same thing in my neighbourhood. Gardens that looked lush in the monsoon turn tired and brown, and people shrug and say, “Garden season is over.” It isn’t. Winter is the best time to grow flowers in most parts of India, because the cool mornings, mild afternoons, and soft […]
Once the mornings turn cool, most people put their gardening tools away and call it a day. But November is actually when a winter vegetable garden in India starts to shine. The weather is mild, pests are fewer, weeds grow slowly, and vegetables like spinach, meethi, and carrots taste sweeter in the cold. Cold weather […]
Scroll through any Indian college student’s Instagram story, and you’ll spot it almost every time: a money plant trailing off a bookshelf, a tiny succulent sitting next to a laptop, a snake plant in the corner of a hostel room, or a balcony that looks like a mini jungle. A few years ago, this would […]
Delhi winters are a strange thing. One day you’re still running the fan, and the next morning you step out onto the balcony in a monkey cap wondering where autumn even went. Add the smog that rolls in every October-November, and your poor plants are basically fighting two battles at once: falling temperatures and rising […]
