Offerings of the city’s countless nurseries

I love foliage plants; their rich, plush colour makes my heart swell with love. Lush ferns, creepers like ivy, and lance leaf caladiums, to name a few are my favourites. When the fronds of a Boston fern are opening, I think it is the best example of life coming alive. When the leaves of the bird's nest fern spread, or when the spiderettes dangle down from the mother plant like spiders on a web, the pleasure is unmatched to many.

Foliage plants that are grown for the leaves only and not flowers, are easy to maintain -- a little sunlight, a little filtered shade, and they stand tall. Moreover, the shapes and colours of the leaves interest me to no bound, they are so wide-ranging and variegated that the leaves play the part of the flowers instead.

Recently, Dhaka is bustling with nurseries accommodating all sorts of plant lovers, which was not the case even a few years ago. We have these pockets of verdant spaces enough to shift our focus from the otherwise dreary, and dusty outdoors. 

When you cross 100 feet near Natun Bazar you have a few of the best-rated nurseries in town. Agargaon, the footpaths opposite Dhaka High Court, Uttara Third phase, and even pavements in Gulshan have small but well-manicured nurseries.

Brimming to the full with multi-coloured lilies and zinnia blooms, fuchsia bougainvillaea, the nursery attracts visitors regularly. Some come for the sake of taking a selfie amid the colourful blooms, some for seasonal flowers, and some connoisseurs to add more variety to their speck of green at home.

I believe that just to offset the outdoors, our indoors are full of luxuriant plants. We have balcony gardens, rooftops, small window sill gardens, and even container gardening is a thing in more or less everyone's house. This makes our homes look livelier and more colourful, a welcome change from the dull outside.

There is an inner gardener or farmer in all of us, as a result, nursery hopping in Dhaka has become a fun sport and gardening, a favourite hobby.

To fill your gardening enthusiasm, get some perennials, shrubs, and ferns, or easy-to-maintain flowering plants for the sunny spot in your home. Adding lush greens to your interiors makes them look lively and rich. An easy trick for you would be to buy big soup cups from any vans vending ceramics, adds a few sprigs of variegated pothos to it, add water and a few stones to hold the stems in place.

Nurturing pothos in water is the easiest way to start adding greens to your home space. ZZ plants, Swiss cheese plants or monstera, and lucky bamboo are all easy-to-maintain indoor plants.

So, the next time when you go walking, look for these in nurseries and liven your interiors. Dhaka nurseries have a lot to offer.