Nisha Nursery

Nisha Nursery is over near the Umrao Hotel at 373 East Of Kailash in the Sant Nagar area. It is a bit of a green patch in a very busy part of the city. We spend all day watering the plants and moving heavy clay pots around. My shoes are always covered in mud and my hands stay pretty rough from the soil. We don't have a big office or anything. It is just the plants and a small shed where we keep the tools. In the summer, we spend most of our time trying to keep the delicate flowers from wilting in the heat. It is a lot of physical work that people don't see. We get people stopping by who are just walking through Sant Nagar and want something small for their balcony. We don't have a fancy website or a catalog. You just have to walk through the rows and see what looks healthy that day. The humidity is high because of all the watering, which makes it feel like a different world compared to the dry road outside. We have some stray cats that live among the pots and we don't mind them being there. Sometimes the plants grow faster than we can prune them and the place looks a bit wild. We just like being outside and working with the earth. It is a quiet way to spend the day in East Of Kailash.