“monsoon”

monsoon · flowers

Monsoon haven for wriggly-wigglies! Wriggly Millipedes feed and crawl in hundreds during rains Ever noticed a big swarm of millipedes in a garden? These are arthropods with multiple jointed legs.

West Bengal·flowers · hills

Monsoon clouds mill around the valley even as a Darjeeling Himalayan Pied Woodpecker, a Striated Laughing Thrush and a Yellow-crowned Woodpecker hunt for insects on the oaks around our blue-green valley of Agapanthus blooms in the Himalaya!…

flowers · monsoon

Beautiful view of Balsam flower and Impatiens flower in a flower garden during monsoon season of India. The Balsam flower with rich red petals and the white petals.

Uttarakhand·flowers · monsoon

Monsoon flowering of Crocus rain lilies, poppies, dahlia and Asiatic dayflower or Commelina paludosa at our wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet botanical slopes in the Uttarakhand Himalaya.

flowers · monsoon

Monsoon haven for wriggly-wigglies! Wriggly Millipedes feed and crawl in hundreds during the rains. Ever noticed a big swarm of millipedes in a garden? These are arthropods with multiple jointed legs.

flowers · hills

Filmed in 1994, so truly one from the archives! In the background, one can see Rhododendron anthopogon flowering in clumps of shrubs.

monsoon · flowers

Monsoon is ending in India, but Kamal or Lotus flowering is only just peaking, as in wildfilmsindia Delhi gardens 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…

flowers · industry

Aeginetia indica, commonly known as the forest ghost flower or Indian broomrape. Characteristics of the Forest Ghost Flower Parasitic Nature: It is a small, leafless, root-parasitic plant that lacks chlorophyll.

monsoon · farmland

Undergrowth during the monsoon season is such that enormous effort is required to clean up grasses and jungli growth or weeds from gardens and agricultural open spaces across India, once the rains have abated.

monsoon · flowers

Lagerstroemia flos-reginae flowering in Delhi monsoon season. The branches get shaken up in the monsoon windiness.

hills · monsoon

Begonia dioica Himalayan wild flower and a droplet of water threatening to fall, with monsoon droplets of fresh rain water, with a backdrop of green lush Himalayan mountain forests at the wildfilmsidia sanctuary in the western Himalaya.

flowers · monsoon

Can someone confirm if this is Commelina paludosa or another species? There are more than 170 species worldwide, including Commelina virginica, Commelina erecta, Commelina benghalensis, Commelina caroliniana, Commelina diffusa, Commelina c…

hills · flowers

A gyro-stabilized walk-through of the Valley of Flowers route from Ghangariya up to the valley itself.

Uttarakhand·hills · monsoon

In the serene hills of Mussoorie, particularly around the quiet area of Motidhar, water droplets resting on fresh green leaves create a delicate and cinematic natural scene.

flowers · monsoon

Oriental Pied Hornbill gets to the ground to eat monsoon termites: Star of Lodhi Gardens birding A female Oriental Pied Hornbill adopts a Grey Hornbill nest and chicks as her own in New Delhi city's Lodhi Gardens, and foster feeds them on a…

flowers · monsoon

Can someone confirm if this is Commelina paludosa or another species? There are more than 170 species worldwide, including Commelina virginica, Commelina erecta, Commelina benghalensis, Commelina caroliniana, Commelina diffusa, Commelina c…

Uttarakhand·flowers · monsoon

These Impatiens or wild Balsam flowers were filmed at the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens at Jabbarkhet in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, during the peak of the monsoon season.

hills · flowers

Meconopsis paniculata in Sikkim Himalaya, seen in end Jun 2022 with droplets of monsoon rain water, in the Shingba Rhododendron Sanctuary beyond Lachung village, en route Yumthang in North Sikkim.

Uttarakhand·monsoon · flowers

Impatiens- wild Balsam thrives in Landour, Uttarakhand during the monsoon season. Impatiens glandulifera is a large annual plant native to the Himalayas. Via human introduction it is now present across much of the Northern Hemisphere.

Uttarakhand·monsoon · flowers

After the monsoon rains have hit the hills, what were once bare tree trunks just a few weeks before are now festooned with a profusion of fern species. This is a particularly productive Toon tree in Landour, Mussoorie.

Uttarakhand·flowers · monsoon

Seen through a blanket of monsoon mist, on the cliff-faces of Landour, these beautiful flowers have bracts that secrete a gluey glue-like substance from what then develops into a seed pod...

flowers · hills

As Roscoea purpurea, wild ginger, Begonia dioica and picta flower in the Himalayan monsoon, a large number of cicada insects call from the trees, creating quite a cacophony that is so typical of the rainy season in our mountains.

Mussoorie, Uttarakhand·monsoon · flowers

Wild Impatiens flowers carpet the ravines of Landour, Mussoorie, Uttarkhand during and after the monsoon months! Impatiens is a genus of about 850--1,000 species of flowering plants, widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere and…

Uttarakhand·monsoon · hills

Standing at 'Land's End' at the Wilderness Orchard and botanical garden in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, one can see the monsoon clouds of the plains welling up into the hills, with the promise of rain...