Small front gardens in Assam , northeast India :This is colourful bungalow land.. A low rise legacy of low level living.
We very much enjoy this road side feast of colour and pretty pastels. Imagine turquoise,pink and green painted bungalows and many front gardens reaching beyond just the necessity of vegetable production and seemingly gardening in colour with plants for beauty’s sake.We even see some topiary !
Or maybe it is just the exuberant growth of the Assam climate that gives us this voluptuous array of flowers.Certainly it seemed very out of the ordinary for the typical Indian garden which has more to do with vegetable and fruit production, animal husbandry – pigs, chickens , cows roaming in happy abandon and still the washing gets hung out to dry …..
for practicality’s sake tin roofs of course are still the norm 
but that rusty patina has a certain charm….and are of course the perfect drying place for those oh so hot chillis.
It is a step beyond the normal indian garden for sure .. where has all the rubbish gone ? Assam is pristine and glorious and quite the little eden to revisit in the future….
