Sanjiv Kumar Bakshi

Sanjiv Kumar Bakshi

Hoshiarpur, January 18

Paramjit Sachdeva, the managing director of Sachdeva Stocks Private Limited, deals in stocks and securities but his love for gardening is the biggest investment he makes in his leisure time.

A lush green garden at his home indicates that he is an ardent nature lover. His place is stocked with various medicinal plants and fruit trees like aloe vera, jamun, guava, amla, tulsi, chikku, lemon, orange, malta, monkey jack and jackfruit. “Mango trees are my favourite and there are 15-16 of different varieties in my garden,” said Sachdeva.

He said that he always had a love for greens and was fond of gardening but at his previous residence there was not much space for it.

“But when in 2014 I shifted to this new house on Jodhamal road, my love for gardening flourished and the garden was developed. We have planted different varieties of fruits and vegetables,” Sachdeva told.

There are also numerous flowers of various varieties, several plants in pots and in the lawn of the house.

“There are around 2,000 plants of flowers. Some of them are seasonal and they change with the season while there are others which remain the same way for the whole year,” he said, adding that generally he has almost no time being busy with the business and social work, yet whenever he finds time he prefers to spend it with the green friends at his house shaping them.

“Seasonal veggies are a regular in my kitchen garden. Radish, mint, carrot, spring onions and coriander are there. Chillies, capsicum, brinjal and other veggies also find space in it.”

He’s got so much love for plants that he even had to change the site plan of his house. “When this was being built in 2013, the builder came to me and said that there were two old trees which needed to be cut as their space was to be used for raising a part of the building. I called the architect and got the site plan changed accordingly so that the trees could be saved,” Sachdeva quipped.