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The Gardener


The first thought that comes to mind when someone thinks of a garden is Greenery. And of gardener, a mercurial visionary who champions the green-movement.

Gardeners are fanatically popular for turning every bit of visible surface of earth into greenery and adorning it with a multitude of colors that are floral in nature.

Have you seen a gardener who fiercely believes that gardens should be clay-courts, trees should not have leaves, plants should not grow for more that a few weeks, flowers are harmful to eyes and mind, grass should grow under the soil and not above, greenery is a myth and brown-stain is reality? Obviously not.

A close friend of mine invited me for a game of tennis and said it will be played in his lawns. Curious to know how he had a house with a lawn-court, i went to his home and  was dismayed when he showed how his grass-court has become a clay-court. Couldn't help wondering if the French Open (and not Wimbledon) was the inspiration

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