Of all the things I thought I would inherit from my mother, I never imagined it would end up being her fondness of cultivating a garden. Last year, in a fit of sentimentality, I got home a Tulsi plant (ocimum tenuiflorum or the holy basil) because I missed home. For as long as I can remember, my mother had always had a tulsi around. I kept that plant (barely) alive for a few months before …