“monsoon”

snow · flowers

Melting ice tongues give way to a small tarn that will become part of an alpine meadow in a few weeks' time. Until then, it hosts a few ice floes.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

A valley full of blooming Agapanthus Lily in the Himalaya? wildfilmsindia grows thousands near Landour Monsoon clouds mill around the valley even as a Darjeeling Himalayan Pied Woodpecker, a Striated Laughing Thrush and a Yellow-crowned Woo…

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

A valley full of blooming Agapanthus Lily in the Himalaya? wildfilmsindia grows thousands near Landour Monsoon clouds mill around the valley even as a Darjeeling Himalayan Pied Woodpecker, a Striated Laughing Thrush and a Yellow-crowned Woo…

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.

farmland · flowers

The skies gray and laden with monsoon clouds and greenery still fresh from the earlier shower. A vast organic farm near Badlapur in Maharashtra. The farm is overrun with weeds after the monsoon rains.

flowers · hills

Aesculus indica, also known locally as payyan and in more common parlance as Horse Chestnut, has an unusual combination of a multitude of pink flowers, along with a few yellow flowers.

Uttarakhand·flowers · monsoon

In the monsoon profusion of the Himalaya, and as the monsoon clouds wax and wane across our hills, these Dahlias bloom across the mountains of Jabbarkhet in wildfilmsindia's gardens, as run wild garden escape flowers dating back to British…

flowers · monsoon

Western white Clematis (Clematis ligusticifolia) is a relatively common garden creeper in India. It flowers in great profusion during the monsoon months of August and September, especially in Delhi.

flowers · monsoon

Western white Clematis (Clematis ligusticifolia) is a relatively common garden creeper in India. It flowers in great profusion during the monsoon months of August and September, especially in Delhi.

flowers · monsoon

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 flower! From bud to flower to seed pod and seed dispersal, that is the brief summer and monsoon li…

flowers · monsoon

Autumn and monsoon blooms: Nasturtium climbers flowering and Morning Glory going berserk in purples and blues. Also, Canterbury Bells in flower in the monsoon season. Flowers blooming beautifully at Jabbarkhet, Mussoorie

flowers · monsoon

From bud to flower to seed pod and seed dispersal, that is the brief summer and monsoon life of the lotus plant above water. For the rest of the year, the kamal plant is mostly dormant.

wildlife · birds

We spotted this Spotted Munia in our Delhi garden one monsoon day this week, as a surprise. They don't normally venture our way, but the monsoon weather and tall grasses have undoubtedly made it attractive for them to visit us now...

Uttarakhand·flowers · monsoon

Commelina tuberosa not paludosa monsoon light time lapse at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet botanical collection in the western Himalaya. The Commelina flower has a gluey secration inside its pod.

flowers · hills

Set against a misty high altitude monsoon cloud meadow, with a stream lower down the valley, this view of bunches of flowering yellow poppies is indeed a wild Himalayan magical sight! Meconopsis paniculata is a brilliant showy deep yellow h…

flowers · hills

Meconopsis paniculata or Himalayan yellow poppy growing wild on a Himalayan slope in north Sikkim, as well as Oriental garden Lily : Two yellow stunners Meconopsis paniculata in Sikkim Himalaya, seen in end Jun 2002 with droplets of monsoon…

flowers · farmland

Clearing weeds from the lily fields is an important precursor to the monsoons when the Agapanthus start to flower.

industry · flowers

Jack in the pulpit? Arisaema wallichianum or tortuosum Snake plant flowering at wildfilmsindia botanical collection in the Himalaya.

Assam·street food · flowers

Women tea pluckers collect monsoon flush chai patti leaves at Tea estate near Kaziranga National Park in Assam

wildlife · flowers

Common Wall (Lasiommata schakra) ranges across India including Delhi, inhabiting dry scrublands, grasslands, and open forests as a widespread satyrine butterfly.

flowers

Keechad ka Kamal or Indian Lotus grows in muddy sludhy ponds across India: The lotus flower is a symbol of India itself. Seen here flowering during the Indian monsoon at the Wilderness Orchard of wildfilmsindia in New Delhi.

flowers · hills

As the monsoon mists swirl around, have a look at one of the remant tea estates of the western Himalaya, in Kumaon.

flowers · hills

The Golden Leaves Cafe in Kumaon with a deodar-tea garden forest-plantation interface. As the monsoon mists swirl around, have a look at one of the remant tea estates of the western Himalaya, in Kumaon.

Chamoli, Uttarakhand·hills · flowers

Hikers trekking along a rocky mountain trail near the Valley of Flowers National Park in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, India.