Innovative home decor
tanay
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Pankaj Kumar <sahanipan...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Beautiful usage of lawn grass.... thanks for sharing the pics.
> Pankaj
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> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:25 AM, raghu ananth <raghu_...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Grass is green on both sides of the fence
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> > (My home garden in KR Nagar and Bangalore)
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> > After it rains, the garden in front of my house develops a natural lawn,
> as
> > grass grows unchecked. Sometimes, in the early morning sun,the dew on the
> > young grass seems to glow like pearls, butterflies flutter around and
> birds
> > are found busy digging into the ground, and this sight gives me immense
> > pleasure. In fact, the grass and the green foliage grows so tall and
> appears
> > so dense that people remark whether it is a garden or a mini forest. In
> > fact, many including us, strangely enough, have seen the mongoose and
> even
> > the elusive small Indian civet cat with hairy bush tail running in the
> > dense undergrowth in the darkness.
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> > During the dry season as well, the grass cover is still there prompting
> > villagers to come and cut grass or graze their cattle inside our
> > garden.Decades back the land was barren here but after some more trees
> were
> > planted the leaves fell to the ground and made for a soft fertile earth.
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> > In Bangalore , We have a small lawn as well. But where earlier it had
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> > up naturally, here it had been manmade. Where earlier it was free, here I
> > had to pay a pretty large sum from my pocket. But yes, I derived pleasure
> > from the latter as well.
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> > Regards
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> > Raghu
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> > Photdates - Krishnarajanagar -15 Jun 2008,
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> > Bangalore 27 Mar 2005
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> Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae)
> Research Associate
> Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project
> Department of Habitat Ecology
> Wildlife Institute of India
> Post Box # 18
> Dehradun - 248001, India
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