flowers

festival · music

Anthurium Festival held at Reiek Tourist Resort in Mizoram, India. Organized annually to promote the cultivation of the Anthurium flower and celebrate Mizo culture, the festival brings together traditional performances, live music, local cu…

Ladakh·hills · river

The Zanskar Valley in Ladakh, India, where blooming apricot trees add shades of white and soft pink to the rugged high-altitude cold desert.

Uttarakhand·hills · flowers

Three gardeners carrying out planting and landscape maintenance work in Jabbarkhet Estate near Mussoorie, Uttarakhand.

flowers · industry

Bougainvillea vines climbing high into tall trees, forming dense cascades of brilliant pink and magenta bracts. The thorny woody climbers completely blanket the tree canopies, creating towering columns of vibrant colour.

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Gladiolus (Gladiolus spp.), commonly known as Sword Lilies, blooming in a garden. Tall flowering spikes carry large blossoms in vibrant orange and soft peach shades.

flowers · wildlife

Grey Hornbill parents feed their chicks within nest hole at Lodhi Garden, despite community parenting. The little chick from within peeks out as it prepares to take on the world within a few days, and head out of its little nest hole.

Ladakh·hills · village

Skurbuchan Village in the Leh district of Ladakh, India, during the apricot blossom season in April.

birds · flowers

A pair of Common Myna birds also attempt to feed Grey Hornbill chicks: The Lodhi Gardens saga of community feeding continues! Pied Hornbill feeds bird eggs to Grey Hornbill chicks in their nest-hole at Lodhi Gardens in New Delhi A female Or…

flowers · wildlife

Pied Hornbill feeds bird eggs to Grey Hornbill chicks in their nest-hole at Lodhi Gardens in New Delhi 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 the…

wildlife · birds

The famous Grey Hornbill of Lodhi Garden - on those rare occasions when the female Oriental Pied Hornbill didn't butt in!

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The Japanese Flowering Quince (Chaenomeles speciosa / Chaenomeles japonica) in full bloom. Brilliant scarlet-red blossoms with golden-yellow stamens cover its woody branches, while fresh green leaves and emerging buds signal the arrival of…

flowers · village

A close-up of a bi-coloured Sweet Pea flower (Lathyrus odoratus) gently swaying in daylight.

bazaar · festival

The festive spirit of a busy market as people shop for Diwali decorations. Stalls are filled with colourful flower garlands, decorative torans, hanging ornaments, and other festive items that are commonly used to decorate homes and workplac…

ceremony · temple

Maha Shivaratri celebrations at Sree Vinayaka Mandir in Sarojini Nagar, New Delhi, India. Devotees gather inside the temple complex to offer morning prayers and perform traditional Hindu rituals at an outdoor stone shrine.

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Showy Dombeya (Dombeya spectabilis), an ornamental flowering tree often known as the Tropical Hydrangea or Maple-Leaved Dombeya.

farmland · flowers

The flowering stalks of radish (Raphanus sativus) are growing alongside a field of Indian Mustard (Brassica juncea), commonly known as Sarson.

Uttarakhand·flowers

An Indian Tortoiseshell butterfly (Aglais caschmirensis) resting on a bright yellow single-flowered Dahlia in Jabbarkhet, Mussoorie, Uttarakhand.

highway · flowers

The beautifully landscaped roadside gardens along AIIMS Ring Road in New Delhi, India. Dense, colour-coordinated beds of Petunias (Petunia × atkinsiana) in shades of pink, red, and purple line the central verge, adding vibrant seasonal colo…

birds · wildlife

The behaviour of Rose-ringed Parakeets (Psittacula krameri) around a tree hollow, which serves as a natural nesting or roosting site.

flowers

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 unilateral basis, in addition to the Grey Hornbill pair feeding their own chicks.

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An Indian Palm Squirrel (Funambulus palmarum) perched on a bare branch of a Silk Cotton tree (Bombax ceiba) against a clear blue sky. Using its front paws, the squirrel carefully holds a large reddish-brown flower bud while feeding on it.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

This footage showcases the colourful spring blooms at Jabbarkhet Botanical Arboretum near Mussoorie, Uttarakhand.

hills · flowers

This footage captures the blossoms of the Indian Horse Chestnut (Aesculus indica) visited by several pollinators.