Saluting every life with a flower each day! Flowers are soul of the planet, blooming to play music with silent notes. Smile at them as they are sweet hearted!! Only the photographs taken by me are uplinked. I lean heavily to http://www.flowersofindia for flower identification and descriptions. Looking forward to valuable comments and suggestions.
The water lily is the most wonderful plant any home garden can possess. It is grown in samll ponds or even in containers. There are many varieties and shades of water lily grown across the world. During my childhood, school days and college days, I have been seeing this beautiful water angel around me in the village ponds. The one which is shown here is the one with radiating yellow. It lifts us your soul, radiating energy and enthralls you. This photograph is captivating and fills your heart with energy. I took this photograph from the entrance point of my institute, where I work presently, on 31st aug, 2011.
Pansy is one of the most widely cultivated garden plant. Usually the modern viola cultivars are the Viola tricolour hybridized with other viola species. These are cool weather flowers. The flowers are almost heart shaped with overlapping petals and a combination of violet, red and white colours. The striking feature is the face like center markings, which when observed from different angles gives a distinct look and reflects in different moods or thoughts. These big blotches which resemble faces make them one of the favourite flowers of gardeners. This photograph was taken from the Botanical garden, Ooty on 27.04.2011, while on a family trip.
The Blue morning glory or Japanese Morning glory is an annual or short-lived perennial plant, cultivated for its highly attractive morning blooms. This plant climbs on the support provided and profusely flowers. The beautiful flowers open early in the morning and do not last long, as the sun heats up, it folds down! I have a great admiration to these flowers and love to see them smiling throughout the day, but its a dream. In the current Dussera flower show at Mysore, there were many such plants, maintained very beautifully in pots. This photograph i took in the morning of 5th October, 2011. And today being Dussera, i dedicate this flower to my dearest friend, a symbol of bright heart like this morning glory !
October 5, 2011
Scientific name: Ipomoea cairica
The mile-a-minute vine or Railway creaper is a beautiful evergreen creeper.It creeps over everything and anything around it. The hairless leaves with 5-7 lobes gives a smooth and pleasant look. The plants can be seen almost all along the railway tracts and hence the name! The purple flower studded vine wrapped around the material in which it twines is a wonderful sight. I have an obsession with the creeper as it has followed me where ever i worked. While i was working in Denkanikottai (Tamil Nadu), i used to visit farmers for inspecting their silkworm crops. I used to take a particular route, just to enjoy the beauty of this vine spread over the way side hedges with numerous flowers smiling at me. Even in Mysore, just outside my lab, the old well is fully covered with this vine and i lost the count how many times i have gone and enjoyed the beauty. Further, outside the gate, it has formed a hut like structure, where i leaned in and took this photograph, on 11th September, 2011. I was literally about to fall off the hedge, while doing so ... but it is worth taking the risk to enjoy the beauty.
The beautiful garden common geraniums are indigenous to South Africa and then were a delight to the gardens of European countries. It further spread across the globe with many more hybrids being produced by gardeners with improved floral varieties. The succulent leaves are alternate and palmately lobbed or pinnate. The plants are used for bedding, borders and also maintained in containers. Bears 4 to 5 inch diameter flower clusters with many small florets arranged in a hemi-sphere. The prolific flowers range in colours from white, magenta, orange or even double colours by forming vibrant margins around the petals. While i was working in Bangalore, my friend introduced me to this plant and presented me some cuttings and had three varieties in my garden. Recently on my visit to the Uncle and Aunt in Mysore, i had a happy feeling seeing many garden varieties in their home. I took this photograph in the cloudy evening of 4th September 2011, as light was falling rapidly.
Vine Fuchsia comes from Peru, which grows like a vine and has hanging clusters of long tubular flowers. The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by insects. Propagation is done through seeds. This photograph was taken from the Botanical Garden of Ooty on 27th April 2011, while I was on a pleasure trip with my family, along with some relatives.
The lesser periwinkle is native to central and southern Europe. The plant is also known as small periwinkle or common periwinckle. It is a trailing perennial ever green herb with creeping stems. The leaves are opposite, 2-4.5 cm long, glossy dark green with a leathery texture and an entire margin. The solitary blue to violet flowers rise from leaf axils, with a five lobbed corolla. The plant is used in the ethano-medicine. It is considered as an astringent, as a remedy for nervous disorders and in healing high blood pressure. The flower has called my attention due to its calm and solitary appearance. I shot this photograph on 30th November 2010 evening in the Sims Park, Coonoor.
