Indian Homes Blend Gardens, Family Memories

Across these stories, plants and gardens serve as sources of memory, comfort and connection. In a village in India’s Nagaland state, 90-year-old Mosenyii Yakhro tends a garden surrounding his late wife’s grave, which has become a gathering place for visitors and family. Other articles highlight houseplants as mood-lifting additions to the home, share nostalgic Indian favorites such as hibiscus, and show how greenery shapes the balcony of actors Fahadh Faasil and Nazriya Nazim’s Kochi home. A multigenerational retreat in Maharashtra similarly places family life within a six-acre fruit plantation, with its design oriented toward the surrounding landscape and cooling breezes.