09Oct25- Wild Gardens are like Joint Families

Someone in the WhatsApp group asked about their Rangoon creeper leaves turning yellow and whether they were overwatering. I took a photo of mine growing among the Hamelia Patens to show them it's a natural process. The plants go through cycles of resting, yellowing, and pushing fresh shoots. I messaged that there's nothing to worry about.

While taking the photo, I understood something deeper about wild gardens like mine. The Rangoon creeper (Quisqualis or Combretum indicum) lives amidst the Patens, their roots far apart. One grows in the ground, the other in a pot. Yet both have leaned on the porch roof tiles, taking support from the roof to grow together. Among them climbs a jasmine, invisible in the picture, leading its own life, unmindful that I cannot pluck a single flower from it.

Unlike manicured gardens where plants are trimmed, maintained, and stand apart in isolation, here they have each other. This is life's natural flow: independent yet together.