love the native

This news by our leading daily is really disturbing (Flowers are not for ever?), but, yes, not at all surprising.

Given the kind of fascination for Western style landscapes, tropical people are also busy chopping off plants. In our attempt to create very appealing greenscapes, we kill so many native flowering plants. After all, in a neatly laid lawn, for which we might have spent a lot of bucks, we don't wish to have "weeds". Right?

But, it is not just the plants, our native ones, are killed...As I wrote before about the trees, every plant harbours or shelters a wide variety of living organisms. Go out and take a close look. Yup...the plant is a vital link of the food web..By snapping it, we start a chain reaction of extinction processes.

We may need lawns and neat gardens..but let us also give some space to our local fellas (read plants).