Our Plants are Growing

Others may think that I am working extra when they see me watering the school flower gardens some evenings. But  watering flowers is not a work for me. I simply love it. I love to see the plants grow when I care them.
     This year my spring and summer share of hardwork paid. The flower gardens that we developed in the school have been successful with all the privet growing. The privets were planted on trail basis referring some ways of plantation from the Google and experiences shared by others. At first I tried right in front of my residence. Having seen the plants growing well under my constant care, I took my gardening further to the Cub den that was just taking shape. I was happy to get some helps from my colleagues and children. For about a month I had to water the plants every evening. And then came the rainy season that the plants got watered freely. The children did timely weddings. Similarly my colleagues tried in other places and they too are successful.
     Last week during his visit, our DCDEO Mr Sonam Wangdi was impressed with our progress in flower gardening. We are also thankful to our former principal Mr Sonam Wangchuk who introduced the privets in the school. I had seen him coming back with loads of the plants everytime he went out for meetings and workshops. It took great trouble to have the mothrrlode of the plants in the school. Sometimes monsoon rain washed way all the nutrients in soil that the plants disappeared. But the principal didn't give up. He came up an Idea to fence the gardens with concrete box. So the cooks were assigned to develop concrete boxes around the gardens to retain the nutrients during heavy rainfall. As a result the plants began to grow and now we don't have to bring the plants from anywhere for our new gardens. We prune the overcrowding and overgrowing plants and plant them in the new gardens.
      This year under my leadership I couldn't afford concrete retention fences around the newly developed gardens. However we mulched the plants with grass and other dried plants to retain nutrients and moisture. The mulching we did helped in growing the plants as we expected. And to fill up the disappearing plants we had raised nursery in noodle and chips wrappers. Just last week we filled up the spaces in our gardens with our nursery plants.
     Hopefully the plants would turn into spectacular hedges in a year or two. The ones grown under Mr Sonam Wangchuk's leadership have turned into great hedges providing great treat to both outsiders and insiders.
     we will keep caring the plants. I remember planting those privets when the farmers were busy planting cardamoms. Our plants are growing. May be the farmers cardamoms are growing too. In a year or two, the farmers' pocket will bulge with cash out of their cardamon and our heart will brighten with happiness and satisfaction out of the spectacular hedges shaped through our collective effort.