Gratifying greens

I am sure I inherited this love for plants from my dad. And then again, there was my roommate back in college who added some more love for plants in me. The first time that I remember buying plants was with this roommate of mine. We happened to visit a newly opened nursery near our hostel to buy plants to decorate our hostel room. I know that’s silly. I mean who spends money on decorating hostel rooms. At least none whom I knew back in my college. But sometimes silly activities that you indulge in creates beautiful memories, don’t they? Of all the plants that I can recall buying that day, there was this one plant with purple, delicate heart-shaped leaves and tiny flowers. Yes, you guessed that right. It’s Oxalis Triangularis, also known as Purple Shamrock or False Shamrock or Wood Sorell or the Love Plant. We were so much in love with this Love Plant that when we left hostel, we bought along with us baby plants from this mother plant. Five years passed by but this plant nev