Gurgaon’s green obsessions

Gurgaon boasts of having some of the most lavish houses in NCR, and what’s even better are the extravagantly designed gardens that they have. And Gurgaon has it all – kitchen gardens, balcony gardens, terrace gardens.
For an onlooker, they may seem like just a striking thing to admire, the kind of effort and craze for all things green that goes into making them look that way is not something they’re aware of.
And as the sowing and planting season begins, women in the city take their gardening obsession to the next level – be it rushing to the market to get the latest garden installations before anyone else, or always having one eye on what the neighbour is getting for theirs.
The first thing Gayatri Shankar, a PR consultant who stays in Palam Vihar, notices when she visits someone’s house is their garden.