A Note of Thanks

First and foremost, the gratitude of all the world and especially disciples and devotees of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother should be offered to Tara Jauhar for her careful and diligent preservation of Mother’s commentaries on the messages of flowers. When I visited Tara at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Delhi branch, she showed me a cupboard filled with books she had prepared to hold the commentaries Mother gave when we were preparing the first major revision of the flower book.

I asked Tara if she would scan these priceless documents and in her usual fast and efficient manner, scanned them all and sent them to me on DVD’s, which I am now using in these garden articles.

A number of Ashramites and devotees have graciously offered their photos and these will not only be used in forthcoming articles but also for a new book I am preparing, A Field Guide for the Identification of Flower Significances. My thanks to all, especially Dakshina, Lilo, Mohan Mistry, Devdutt Lall, Nilauro, Sergey, Vytautas and Pavitra (Estrem).

I invite photographers to send in their best photographs, especially of tropical flowers named by Mother but also of temperate climate species such as tulips and hyacinths. It would be useful to have photographs of the plants in addition to the flowers to show how the flower is carried, the size and type of plant, etc. The photographs of the plant can be separate from close-ups of the flowers. Please include a note giving me permission to use the photographs.