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 purple heart of purple queen is native of Mexico. The plant is named for the striking purple colour of the plant. The plant is widely grown as an ornamental plant in gardens. It is well suited as border or land cover. In the childhood i have seen this plant in school headmaster's home in my native village. I took this photograph on 8th September, 2011 at my colleague's home while on a photoshoot of Pookkalam.
Dianthus, China pink, Indian pink or rainbow pink are short-lived perennial garden plants. It is native to China and northern parts of India. It blooms in several colours and shades. The extremely popular garden plants are favourites among gardeners. The small single flowers have four to six slightly overlapping petals that have often cut or fringed edges. The pretty petals are gathered at the base into a strong green tubular calyx. This beautiful ornamental plant has attracted my attention that from childhood i was maintaining this plant in my home. Recently during my visit to my native place, i saw my father keeping some dianthus! This photograph was taken on 26th April, 2011 from Coonoor, while on a family trip.
Purple morning glory is a perennial climbing shrub, 1-2 m high. Bright purple funnel shaped flowers are a wonderful sight, which makes you cheerful. The flowers are 5 cm long. The plant is native to India. One plant is beautifully growing in the front garden of my institute (CSRTI) at Mysore. Parallelly it grows in wild with profuse flowering in different parts of the same campus. I photographed these flowers in the morning of 19th August, 2011 just in front of the institute.
The paper flower is native to Brazil. It is an evergreen climbing thorny vine. Tiny white flowers appear in clusters surrounded by colourful papery bracts. The plant can be grown as a hedge, a shrub, a climber and also in pots or as bonsai. The plant loves open sunshine. It was named after the French navigator, Louis de Bougainville, who discovered it in Brazil in 1790 and brought to Europe, from where it became widespread and popular. This plant can be seen just outside the animal house attached to the lab where i work now. I had photographed my friend keeping these flowers as background. Months later, i snapped these flowers alone on 11th June, 2011 but of course missing my friend ...
Cineraria or Florist's Cineraria are beautiful plants which provide a splash of color to garden in winters and spring. The hybrid was first developed in the British royal gardens in 1777. This large leaved annual produces a bouquet of bright colored flowers in pink, purple and blue, and also in pastel shades. The Cineraria is a free-blooming, brilliant, and easily-grown plant. Easily raised from seed, almost hardy, blooming in winter and spring, it is a most valuable plant. This photograph was taken from Sims Park, Coonoor in the afternoon of 27th April, 2011 while on a family trip.
Lobster claw, Hanging heliconia is one of the most grown species native to the north western region of South America. It has a beautiful pendent inflorescence with downward-facing flowers, and provides a source of nectar to birds.. The bracts are red with greenish yellow edges. Each bract resembles a lobster's claw, hence the common name. The inflorescence it produces is one of the most colorful one will ever encounter. The mature plant normally starts to flower in the summer. The flowers last a long time and make an excellent cut flower. During 1988 while i was pursuing my computer studies, from my Aunt’s home, we had this plant. This photograph was taken on 29th August 2011 from a house opposite to the institute where i work at present.
Obscure Morning Glory is a small flower of about 1” dia. The beautiful pale yellow flowers with deep purple throats adorn this vigorous vine with small, heart shaped leaves. It is native to Tropical East Africa, Mascarene Islands and tropical Asia. This vine usually climbs on other bushes or anything around it. Flowers continuously and every day it welcomes you with newer ones to cheer you up on your morning stroll. This photograph i took near my lab in the morning of 29th September, 2011.
