How many trees do you have in your project?

How many trees do you have in your project? 

It is not the number of plants you have but the kind of plants that is important. Plants which would not just add to the ambiance but being more value. Plant fruit bearing trees that help bring in birds and provide food apart from providing shade and visual appeal. 

At Samskruti Builders, most of our trees are either fruit bearing or herbs with medicinal values.

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Living with plants

Have a lot of trees and plants in and around your house. 

Having a lot of plants around your house will help protect the house from elements apart from providing visual comfort and cleaner air.

At Samskruti Builders, our homes blend with plants and natural elements to create comfort and luxury.

Unlearn the technology

Do you realize that you are addicted and dependent on technology for everything? From playing games, reading news and sometimes even how to spend your free time?

Man is a social animal is becoming the statement of yesterday! More and more children are gravitated by tablets, phones and other electronic devices. This results in the development of individuals so engrossed int he 3 inch screen that they do not know how to respond, behave and even worse, communicate effectively with other kids, elders and family.

Unlearn this dependency and learn to spend time with people. Encourage your children to play outside, like we were privileged to do. This would not just help them shape up physically but also encourage healthy emotional and physiological behavior.

At Samskruti, all our homes are designed to encourage communication, people mingling together and promoting community and bonding.

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Window farming!

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Besides the benefit of food, the cultivation of plants in the house is fairly relaxed and helping several mental health. For the millions of people who live in apartments and are really disconnected to the origins of their food, this model of production is excellent. Not only to help create more local food sources, but to bring a greater awareness among urbanites with respect to agricultural and environmental issues.

At Samskruti, we believe in community being the ultimate fibre that holds the families and cities together. Join us in rediscovering the value of citizens united, and to declare that we are all still pioneers.

Home grown!

My grandfather was a freedom fighter and lived most of his life in a village barring few trips to a nearby town for an occasional movie. Yes, the good old black and white movies where the script and lyrics were more important than actors and music.After settling all his children he still stays in his village despite all of us inviting him to our homes. Every morning he wakes up early, takes a walk, collects milk from his cattle yard and then is fresh and ready by the time we usually wake up. He has a small piece of land where he grows paddy and toiled on his own. You might not believe it but he is more fitter than I am now!

Change of scene when he visits his daughter, my mother and it is fun to watch him fuss around the house with our comfort, if we are misguided to think it is, and keeps telling us what to do and what not. A part of him still looks at us as grand children who grew up on his shoulders in summers and accompanied to the fields for trips constantly asking him lots of questions to which he patiently answered. I love spending time with him as he is better than wikipedia!

When he saw our small home garden my mom tends to, he gets going. He cleans it, touches the plants, rips off leaves, adjusts the angles, provides support and weeds it while continuously telling us which plants to keep and why we should have tulsi leaves with tea, keep digging the soil and what natural manure we should use and so on. He doesn't mind eating brinjals every day of the week if it is from our garden. Every time he has the first morsel, we know what happens. If it is from our garden for him it tastes better and if it is from the supermarket, it doesn't. He can even taste plastic in which it is packed and pesticides and overall unhealthy feeling.

Over the years after I moved out of home for studies and years of living in hostels, I yearn for my mom's food. Don't know how many times, I had posted about my mom's food on facebook and orkut and how many likes I got :)

Every once in a while when someone is coming from home, I get a dabba. Home cooked food from mom and trust me there is nothing better. May be I have grown to appreciate it more now but it tastes 100 times better than the food I have had in the best of hotels. I don't have the measure but it tastes much better when the vegetables are from my home garden. I know it is healthy, tastes better, is cooked with love and affection. I also know it is smarter and more eco-friendly than what I buy from the supermarket.

At Samskruti, we want you to get an opportunity to have small happy moments that you miss or have no time for. Every home @Samskruti, either in Maurya or Hoysala or Indus Valley, have an option to have a terrace garden or a roof-top garden where you can grow vegetables, flowering plants and even fruits. This is not just for decorative purposes but for more aesthetic purposes than one.

You can teach your children, like we learnt and appreciate now more than ever, where their food comes from and how much effort goes into that. Research suggests that gardening is an excellent therapeutic tool and if it comes with several advantages, then why not! Skip the supermarket option and see if you can grow something in your backyard. More than the money you save, the joy you would get out of this would be priceless.

Roof-top garden

"What is a roof-top garden?"


"Please come here and look at this model here. You can have a small garden on your roof. You could grow some vegetable plants, fruits and creepers here."

This is how discussions at our office go. If there is a lady, then she would ask some more questions about the type of soil, plants she could grow and so on. If it is a gentleman, he would like to know if water will seep, will the garden increase the weight on the ceiling and so on. But people appreciate the concept.


Rooftop gardens can also help absorb heat and act as insulators, reducing the energy needed for cooling or heating; provide low-cost food and also a refuge for bird, bees and insects. These benefits are clearly transferable to your locality and urban agriculture can play an important role in strengthening the resilience of cities and their populations against the impacts of climate change. According to the UN Population Fund, about half the world population already lives in urban areas with the number expected to reach some five billion by 2030.

Being able to supply their own fruit and vegetables is clearly an advantage in a time of food scarcity and rising prices. And it’s also not impossible. Hong Kong and Singapore, for example, both produce more than 20% of their meat and vegetables within the city limits. As well as the environmental and economic benefits, rooftop gardens also bring a much needed splash of colour to our rather grey concrete jungles so lets get gardening!

All the villas in Samskruti Maurya have access to a small garden, most of them being roof-top. Only the ones who experienced it will know the joy of eating something from your own garden. It not just tastes better but also is an healthier and smarter choice. If you could grow only 5-10 kgs of vegetables depending on the space you have after allocating a small space for the good old Tulsi, you could still save around 700-1000 rupees a month.

What do you think?