flowers

flowers

Tall bearded irises (Iris germanica hybrids) flowering in a range of colours and patterns. Blue-violet, white and lavender, plum and tan, peach and apricot, violet-edged plicata, and rosy-copper blooms display ruffled standards, drooping fa…

wildlife · birds

Pied Hornbill mysteriously appears in New Delhi city, adopts Grey Hornbill nest, feeds eggs to their chicks.

Rajasthan·flowers

A walk through the organic kitchen garden at Fort hotel Devi Garh in Udaipur on a sunny winter day.

temple · flowers

The reopening of Kedarnath Temple in Uttarakhand for the annual pilgrimage season. The shrine is decorated with bright marigold garlands and colourful flowers as thousands of devotees gather for the kapat opening ceremony.

hills · flowers

A group of trekkers crossing a high-altitude alpine meadow in Uttarakhand during the monsoon season. Carrying backpacks and trekking poles, they follow a narrow trail along a green ridge dotted with blue and yellow wildflowers.

industry · forest

A pair of Greenhouse millipedes (Oxidus gracilis), also known as garden or hothouse millipedes, engaged in mating behaviour among fallen pine needles.

Uttarakhand·ceremony · river

Women selling aarti offerings beside the Ganges in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, at dusk. Leaf cups filled with marigold and rose petals, incense sticks, and small oil lamps are offered to pilgrims and visitors for the evening prayer.

flowers · hills

White Peruvian Daffodil flowers growing on a mountain ridge. The pale blooms have long, narrow, curling petals and distinctive central flower structures, giving them a spider-lily-like appearance.

flowers · hills

Planting bare-root Paeonia ‘Candy Stripe’ peonies inside a greenhouse tunnel at the Wild Films India Jabbarkhet Botanical Arboretum in Uttarakhand.

flowers · hills

Giant Lily ‘Conca d’Or’ (Lilium ‘Conca d’Or’) bulbs being planted by hand in a terraced garden bed at the Wild Films India Jabbarkhet botanical arboretum in Uttarakhand.

monsoon · flowers

Heavy monsoon rain pours down on a lush green garden, with streaks of water falling in front of the trees and shrubs. A dense bush covered in small orange-red flowers sits in the centre, with feathery-leaved trees rising behind it.

flowers

A caterpillar of the Indian Lily Moth (Polytela gloriosae) crawls slowly across the ground and over blades of grass. Its velvety black body is covered in bright white spots and orange patches, with an orange head and tail.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Cosmos flowers thriving at the wildfilmsindia botanical arboretum in the western Himalaya, possibly growing from seeds planted by British-era gardeners around 150-200 years ago.

street food · flowers

Large metal cooking vessels are used to prepare Aliv Kheer, also known as Halim Kheer or garden cress seeds pudding, in Sarojini Nagar, New Delhi.

highway · flowers

Gardeners work in a small landscaped garden beneath a large concrete flyover in Narouji Nagar, New Delhi. They trim medium-sized plants and maintain the greenery in the central median.

flowers · hills

Lily bulbs being planted by hand at the Wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet Botanical Arboretum in Uttarakhand. The bulbs are placed in neat rows in prepared soil, covered by hand and marked with small plant labels.

temple · flowers

Kedarnath Temple in Rudraprayag district, Uttarakhand, is decorated with orange and yellow flower garlands. Temple bells ring as devotees enter the shrine one by one for darshan of Lord Shiva.

Jammu and Kashmir·flowers

Archival footage shows a Model Floriculture Center in Srinagar, Kashmir, where a staff member, Ghulam Hassan Hamani, speaks about the variety of flowers growing in the garden.

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.

flowers · river

A green grapevine yard and a vibrant field of sulphur cosmos (Cosmos sulphureus) in the soft light of the day, at Trimbakeshwar. Orange flowers with dark centres sway on thin stems, with more blooms glowing in the blurred background.

flowers · highway

A Red Silk Cotton tree (Bombax ceiba), also known as semal or simal, is flowering beside a busy urban road in Delhi.

flowers · farmland

Workers are preparing Bordeaux paste, a traditional mixture of copper sulphate, lime and water, in a shaded wooded area. Two men transport a sack in a wheelbarrow along a gravel path beneath tall trees before opening it with scissors.

flowers · farmland

Three gardeners are manually mowing a lawn at Wilderness Orchard in Delhi using a green cylinder lawn mower.