I got a jasmine!

I grew up in a jasmine-surrounded city. As a kid, I would leave early in the morning to go to school and I would go through the frontyards of the buildings filled with jasmines. In the weekends, I would go get some warm bread from the bakery, and the smell would overwhelm anyone passing on the street.

This was in a city of millions of inhabitants. 

There was one massive jasmine just around corner of our street. There was one literally at our front door. There was another one at the other end of the street. Several others were spread around the neighborhood. We all knew where they were. We would intentionally pick those routes.

Same game in the town of our summer house. When we walkted to the center, we knew which detours to make.

If you pick a few jasmine flowers and put it in water, your entire house will smell of jasmine. I learned this before I was a teenager, because in the weekends, my father would go shopping for food in the morning, bring some flowers, and then when we woke up for late breakfast, the house would be invaded/liberated by the jasmines.

I had always dreamt of having my own house having jasmines. I now live in a house which catches very little direct sunlight and I don't have a garden. I have a little cement terrace with some vases. Even so, I wanted to give it a try. I had asked the florist in the neighborhood, she said it wasn't impossible. 

This was years ago. 

I tried planting seeds. It didn't work.

I wanted to buy a small plant but the florist would never have it.

This all changed last week.

 

 

I went to the supermarket for my weekly grocery shopping. The florist was open. And there was this one single plant waiting for me. 

I rushed in to get it. 

We transplanted it to slightly bigger vase. 

Now it's here. 

It exists.

I am almost sure it won't survive the winter. But it is here now. I wake up, and I say Hi to it first thing in the morning. It is not impossible that it stays with us for a couple of weeks, at least.

In all accounts, this is a major victory. I know that "socialism in one terrace" doesn't work, but this is still a revolution of some sort!