r/Baghbani

Where cani get water lily seeds or bulb in Karachi?

So was having convo with someone abt need of local greenery in our city instead of like whatever one variety that catches our dept fancy . The person agreed but the local trees they wanted to planted were fruit trees we already eat like oranges and mangoes.

Now obviously most domestic fruit trees in Pakistan are actually native but that doesn't mean they're necessarily local. If they were, its likely their wild counterparts wld already exist in your area. Second, I get why ppl want fruit trees in their neighbourhoods, they will bear fruits that ppl can collect, it's utilitarian. And yes, shld exist in urban spaces. But they still can't be a replacement to the actual local or let's say indigenous flora of your particular area.

There are a lot of wild species that don't serve some obvious purpose for us, mostly that wld be food or timber. But they're still living species who have a right to exist alongside us. And second utility isn't always just for you, a human, it's also for wildlife, land, air, atmosphere, everything.

A lot of times our care is often limited to species that we directly utilise and find pleasing. It happens for animals too, like ppl only like cats in particular, sometimes dogs, and we want more and more land for livestock but any other animal can just cease to exist within our communities urban or rural. But it is also a very colonial attitude to want everything to die and just push itself back to areas that are still free from our exploitation. Let's not do that and change how we see these plants. They're in fact your kin and you shld care for them like you wld your own.