By Aparna Natarajan / Class of 2024
School View Road resident Gayathri has been maintaining a terrace garden for almost 15 years.
She grows mostly medicinal herbal plants.
Gayathri is keen to take guests on a tour of the garden and explain the medicinal properties of the various plants, such as ranagalli ( which helps break down kidney stones), keezhanelli (used to treat jaundice), sorgamaram (which provides a rich supply of oxygen and whose bark is used to treat early stages of cancer).
Gayathri said she had at one time close to 300 plants but lost several to the extreme heat and to intense rain during the monsoon.
She resides in R. A. Puram.
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