“monsoon”

flowers · highway

Large foliage of Rangoon Creeper in full bloom at a flyover pavement next to the highway. These are common in Asia and are drought resistant plants grown as climbers and for hedges in garden landscaping.

flowers · hills

It takes a lot of heavy digging to get to the bottom of these mighty clumps of Agapanthus or Lily of the Nile. But we need to uproot them, divide them and re-plant them, to ensure their well-being and continued growth and flowering...

river · flowers

The wildfilmsindia team plants Agapanthus Lilies after dividing them. Our Lilies of the Nile have grown manifold! After ten years in the ground, the bulbs or corms were old, tired, enormous and growing one on top of the other.

Ooty, Tamil Nadu·flowers

The Neelakurinji is a range of Strobilanthes species that inhabit the Western Ghats region and the Nilgiri mountains. The Strobilanthes kunthiana plant flowers just once in 12 years.

flowers · hills

Epilobium latifolium in the Valley of Flowers - a beautiful Himalayan flower of the Evening primrose family.

festival · flowers

Women performing on regional songs on the occasion of 'Phool Walon Ki Sair' The Phool Walon Ki Sair is the 'festival of flower sellers' , organised by the Anjuman Sair-e-Gul Faroshan, the festival is seen as an example of the composite cult…

hills · forest

We have stopped all forms of poaching and habitat disturbance, so these Himalayan pheasants just come and gambol among our Arum Lilly Calla flower beds at wildfilmsindia.

hills · flowers

Monsoon time flowering of the burgundry (almost purple-black) Arum Lilies at our Himalayan gardens. Burgundy Velvet Calla Lilies being harvested at wildfilmsindia botanical arboretum in the Himalaya

flowers · monsoon

Lotus flower has a work of art within it, in the form of the formative seed pod developing within Pretty even as it dies, the lotus is something else! What a delicate lotus pink, with finer shades - No wonder the Kamal is India's national…

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Stunning pink, red, purple and white Dahlia successfully compete with Roscoea purpurea and Commelina paludosa wild flowers in the Himalaya, at our wildfilmsindia estate of Jabbarkhet around Mussoorie.

flowers · highway

Large foliage of Rangoon Creeper in full bloom at a flyover pavement next to the highway. These are common in Asia and are drought resistant plants grown as climbers and for hedges in garden landscaping.

Uttarakhand·hills · flowers

The road journey towards the Valley of Flowers National Park in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, India, beginning near Govindghat, the main gateway to the UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Uttarakhand·flowers

We are pulling out tulip bulbs at the end of flowering season at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet botanical collection. If left in the ground, in our monsoon climate, they will rot in the ground.

flowers · hills

A field of pink cosmos flowers (Mexican asters) in full bloom in the Himalayas, at 7,100 feet, at a botanical garden and sanctuary.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

The wild Kaith or Himalayan pear is a favourite of many Himalayan birds that visit it for nectar. Others visit it for the fruit which ripens after the monsoon season.

forest · flowers

A brilliant day to night time lapse over the deodar trees at the Wilderness Orchard and botanical garden estate, from our front door, looking out to the monsoon plains and big sky country of north India!

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

Early winter flowers turn brown after the monsoon profusion, as they cover the slopes of Pari Tibba in Motidhar, in wildfilmsindia protected forests around Mussoorie.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

These Dahlia flowers are competing with wild Himalayan flowers and cover by seeding and spreading themselves in the wild, as garden escapes.

flowers

A field of garden flowers at the end of spring and start of the monsoon showers. White with streaks of red Amaryllis Lily or Easter Lily, Red Amaryllis lilies are harvested from the flower bed.

flowers

A group of green caterpillar with black heads are seen circling around a leaf in a vegetable garden in Delhi. This has been filmed during the monsoon of 2020. Help us identify the caterpillar.

Uttarakhand·flowers

This lovely green tipped yellow flowering water lily grows at our Motidhar Estate in Mussoorie, at Pari Tibba, and delivers lovely monsoon time blooms, despite the cold!

flowers

Commonly called Lantana, these thorny shrubs are common in tropics but are now cultivated worldwide for the colourful flower inflorescence and is used in garden landscaping.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Bunches of run-wild Crocuses have taken over our early monsoon late summer hillsides at the Jabbarkhet botanical gardens of wildfilmsindia, overlooking the plains and the higher mountains of the Himalaya, as garden escapes that have got nat…

flowers

The Delhi springs bring yellow to life with these brightly coloured Indian Laburnum known as Amaltas in Hindi. These ornamental flowering trees bloom from early spring till the monsoon and is almost leafless during the blooming season.