I love banana trees. I like the light green colour of the leaves,
the smell and structure of the plant and more than anything else, eating in a
leaf.
I have always wanted to have
them in our backyard, but for vaastu reasons,
my parents objected to the idea of planting them. My desire to have them in our garden became
very intense a few years ago and I suggested to my mother two places, where
water stagnated i.e., near the corporation water pump and the kitchen drain outlet
for planting plantain saplings, so that the water is not wasted (Banana trees
need a lot of water). As usual, my
parents strongly opposed the idea.
But, miraculously, exactly in
the two places I suggested, banana plants sprouted during a monsoon. I don’t know if the roots from a neighbour’s
garden reached ours with the flood water, or the plants sprouted from the seeds
dropped by birds (banana plants can also be propagated through germination,
which was not known to us).
Initially, when the plants sprouted, we thought it was a variety of grass.
Then felt, it could be Turmeric and a little later thought it could be Canna indica, but once it took shape, we understood it is my favourite
banana. They are such beautiful plants,
my parents too could not forcibly remove them quoting vaastu reasons.
Every time I see them, I feel
so happy because, the plants have grown exactly the way I imagined them and
wanted them to and the fact that I too have experienced a miracle.
