A doctor with 'rosy' heart

English garden designer Gertrude Jekyll wrote, "The love of gardening is a seed once sown never dies . . ." And Dr.F.A.Kazi, Chief Medical Officer of KUD, is one in our neighborhood passionately doing gardening with the feeling that seed once sown never dies. His love for gardening has changed the face of health centre compound in the campus as rose, jasmine, and many other varieties of flowers giving a beautiful aura to the compound.

There are 180 rose plants in the garden of nine varieties. Out of nine six are budded (Hybrid) roses of different colours like Bright Red, Crimson Red, White, Yellow, Green and double colour (half petal is pink and half petal is white). There are 18 Jasmine, 500 Gladiolus (white, yellow, pink), Barsera [Russian scent plant (the same plant which is grown in Tata geni estate behind Ashoka Hotel and a factory producing scent out of it) and a creeper, which gives bird shape flowers decorate his garden. 40 May flowers plants, which gives balloon shaped flower, which stays for 2months once a year in the month of March crimson red colour are also there. Entire margin is lined with Cena red flower plants which gives parrot shaped red flowers 10 in number once in a year. Red cushioned shaped flower plants are there around 300 all along the edge. The garden is full of a variety of tendrils, which give small star shaped red flower throughout the year and a variety of indoor coloured plants of different colour which cannot survive under direct sunlight.

“This is just a beginning. I did all these things no employees scheduled for garden and without any external assistance”, tells Dr.Kazi. I started this effort in last June and nothing but love for plants inspired me for this,” he continues. He spends daily three hours, 6 to 9 in every morning for the nursing of his plants. If varsity provides me a gardener and a compound wall, I can produce a spring to the campus. I have bigger plans of planting fruit plants, constructing a fish pond and fountain.” Dr. Kazi is a model to several campus residents and officials.