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.
Very popular plants, some of them for the foliage and others for the beautiful flowers. These are found the gardens all across the world. In the same plant, these monoecious plants bear unisexual male and female flowers separately. Way back in 1988, when i was pursuing computer studies, staying with my aunt in Nagarcoil (Tamil Nadu), i had a collection of more than 35 varieties of Begonias! As an ardent collector, i was amused by the beauty of the foliage – its shape, colour, pattern, etc., so also the beauty of flowers. I was astonished by the interest shown by my well wisher, colleague and friend, around this beautiful flower when he took me to the home, where he stays with the uncle and aunt. The evening of 5th Sep. 2011 will remain fresh in my memory for many days. This flower is especially for him for the wonderful evening.
Scientific name: Stictocardia tiliifolia The spotted heart or sugar candy is native to India and SE Asia. It is a large woody climber. Flowers are funnel shaped, reddish with a yellowish center. If you are a gardener, definitely you would love to have one in your collection. Yesterday early in the morning i received a call from my friend and colleague, that Stictocardia has flowered in his home garden. I reached there, took the snap and had a wonderful break fast. This flower is dedicated to them for their love and affection to the flora ...
The Egyptian stars is a perennial herb native to East Africa to Southern Arabia. The dark green hairy leaves are lanceolate in shape. In tropics they bloom almost throughout the year and are a must in butterfly parks. The flowers range in colour from magenta to pink, red, white, lavender, purple and shades of pink. I had red and white ones in Palakkad, many years ago. Yesterday i visited one uncle and aunt, who are known to me being the members of same church in Mysore. This was possible as my well wisher, colleague (the executive engineer of the institute where i am working) and friend took me there. They are nurturing their home garden very fondly. It was a superb atmosphere, wherein a variety of plants and flowers along with their pet birds were welcoming me cheerfully. I continued my photo shoot, till fall of night.
The white African daisy is an annual, native to Namibia and is the first to flower in the spring. The flower opens with the warmth of the sun. The flowers follow the sun as it moves across the sky. Today being teachers day in India, it would be appropriate to say that the students could follow their teacher as this flower does. I was wonder-stuck at the sight of these flowers, cheerfully waving their heads in a flower bed in front of Louis Pasteur Institute, Coonoor in the evening of Nov. 3rd, 2010.
Flowering glorybower is native to western Africa. It is a semi-woody evergreen vine, which climbs by twining. The scarlet-red flowers formed in terminal clusters are very vibrant and attractive. The plant extract is used for treating wounds and infectious conditions in Africa. On 29th Aug. 2011 afternoon i just moved out with my camera to capture some photographs and it so happened that i could get this snap just opposite of my institute in Mysore.
The beautiful Laurel clock vine or Blue trumpet vine is native to India. Flowers are borne on pendulous inflorescences. It flowers throughout the year and is a popular ornamental plant. It opens in the morning and gets aborted in the same evening. The creeper has fascinated me since so long, because whenever I visited any popular park or garden, it was there to smile at me. This flower was shot in the afternoon of 3rd Dec. 2010 at Coonoor.
A beautiful garden flower found in North Africa, North India and Himalayas. Has got many medicinal values. Used in the treatment of toothache and the roots are used in the treatment of paralysis and epilepsy. I have seen this flower flourishing in many gardens and this particular photograph was taken in Coonoor on 3rd Dec. 2010 as it was smiling at me on a flower bed.
