Not surprisingly, gardening is probably the most common hobby in Namma Bengaluru, which truly was a 'garden city' when I first came here in 1997. However, over the last two decades, we have all been witness to much of that garden space being taken over by concrete. But we Bengalureans still have that in our DNA, to grow plants wherever we live, whether on the 10th floor of an apartment, in a good old typical Bengaluru house in Jayanagar or in a housing community with individual houses. With my farming background, my decision to buy a house was based on…
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