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Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Jasmine

I love jasmine flower garlands. In ekm there were little shops from where we could buy jasmine flower garland. We can wear it in our hair and go to school. Sometimes a tamilian lady would come to our house with a cloth basket full of spinach and she also sells jasmine flower garlands. My mom would buy spinach from her and a small piece of a jasmine flower garland for me. I would keep it on the fridge until it is time to wear it to school next day. Jasmine flower garlands are so fragrant. If we are buying from the south junction then they would wrap the jasmine garland in a piece of plaintain leaf and tie it with a coir thread. We can buy jasmine flower garlands that are blooming. We can also buy jasmine flower buds garland. If we buy the garland made of jasmine buds then after we reach home it will bloom into flowers. In my grandfather's house there was a jasmine plant that climbed the mango tree. In the evening the entire front yard will be filled with the fragrance of jasmine flowers. In the dark thicket formed by the entangling profusion of jasmine leaves and mango leaves the white jasmine flowers bloom. We can make garlands with jasmine flowers. I only know how to make with a needle and thread. But the people who are in the flower business the people whose livelihood it is to make jasmine flower garlands know how to make jasmine flower garlands with just thread. They make a kind of loop for the stem of the flower can be placed and then they make another loop where another flower stem is placed and in no time a long jasmine flower garland is formed. For weddings a lot of jasmine flower garlands are worn. They wear a pile at the top of the braid and then they wrap the braid with a long jasmine garland. That is how their hair is decorated. It is really beautiful. Tamilians wear flowers on their head everyday. They wear two different types of flowers. Jasmine and kanakbaram garlands are made in Tamil Nadu.