Coastal areas and inland water bodies , salt marshes have their own flora and fauna. High tides and low tides have their role to play. During monsoon season rain water allows the growth of certain halophytes as their seeds require non saline water for their germination while they need saline water for their growth. Salicornia is one such plant. Rhizophora with its special pneumatophores meant for gaseous exchange is another plant of coastal marshes. Different algal material also grows in the coastal waters depending on the ocean Once the plants are there the sea animals get their food and a sort of ecosystem based on saline water , rain water, salt marshes, sandy beaches develop in which flora and fauna supports each other.

Rosa alba Linn. Rosaceae Stem,flowers It is cultivated to some extent in Bulgaria and Turkey for extraction of oil (otto) from the flowers. Common Uses . The flower is bitter, acrid, pungent, with a flavor , cooling, Astringent to the bowels, aphrodisiac, sures "tirdosha" stomatitis, leprosy, biliousness, burning sensation, purifies the blood, improves the complexion, the taste the appetite (Ayruveda) . The flower smells sweet, enriches the blood, carminative, laxative, lessens inflammation, useful in cold and catarrah of the nose, headache, toothache, bronchitis, hiccough, diseases of the lungs, ophthalmia, rheumatism, applied to piles, the perfume is a tonic for the brain and the heart. (Yunanai)

Happy holi is celebrated across India . In the evening of purnima holika (made from wood logs ) symbolizing evil is burnt and prahlad (made of green twig) is taken out from the burning Holika just in time . The message was the victory of good over evil. Saving Prahlad a green tree twig indicates protecting green trees and burning the old logs . This used to be one function for the city or mohalla or area . Nowadays Holi is burnt in every corner of the city roads. Jawaharnagar sector 1 and 2 have taken a decision to burn Holi together . This will save wood logs and promote unity and brother hood the ulimate message of this occasion. However I feel sorry to see lots of good quality wood being burnt in the name of ceremoney. How we can avoid cutting of woods ?

Sea beaches and their vegetation have disappeared as most of beaches are encroached upon for hotels industry, housing , and industries in India . Mangroves and sunder bans have also being lost to the natural calamities or manmade calamities. Unless we preserve the sea beaches and conserve the natural vegetation and refrain from destroying vegetations more catastrophes are going to come. It does not need astrology to forecast the same : its human activities which are writing their own future

40 percent of world’s population lives in coastal areas. Coastal areas have different characteristics where saline water from sea, its winds carrying salt, salt marshes, inland sea water vegetation , halophytes make a typical ecosystem Man is not master of earth. Man destroys ecosystem and builds buildings, atomic power plants, uproots the vegetation and makes concrete jungles. It’s not sea which has invaded human dwellings its man which has gone too deep into sea. Mangrove vegetation is typical and must be restored. Time is running. Let us keep ecosystems intact and if we destroy them and enter the sea with all our might the nature will take its toll. What is happening could not happen if we leave 10 km or 20 km of coastal area with natural vegetation .

Vegetation line along rail road or connecting roads was such a common site that sometime trees would even obstruct the passage, in my childhood. They widened the roads and cut the trees . Jaipur -Ajmer Highway for that matter is good example where trees as old as several hundred years were cut and roads were widened. Despite of promise of raising more trees the roads are still open. Trees now raised in inhospitable soil suffer termite attack. Plants can’t be grown at will or on any site you chose. They are specific in their choice of soil, water, and even their society. Strangely enough plants grow in groups and formations. If some plants of these formations are removed others also die.