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Lawn mowing time, Indian style! Cutting grass with a manually pulled lawn mower at a garden in north India

highway · flowers

Caragana shrubs and yellow wild flowers in the lower Nubra valley area of Ladakh in India. Road crews working on the Shyok valley road.

flowers · hills

A range of reblooming and regular tall German Irises flower in our botanical collections in the Himalaya. Shreiner's tall German Iris flowers bloom in the Himalaya: The best of Oregon comes to India

flowers · monsoon

Teak tree flowers are delicate white stars that float around during monsoon season, collecting in water puddles on the ground. The monsoon winds carry the flowers aloft.

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…

farmland · flowers

India's common Tota: Rose-ringed Parakeet couple preening and sitting peacefully for an afternoon bit of calm semi siesta at the Wilderness Orchard in Delhi, on a fig tree.

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Apis dorsata or the Giant Honey bee comes to the red flowers of a Hamelia patens shrub to gather nectar.

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One cannot even see this Apis mellifera digging deep into a fragrant freesia flower till it pops out. The Freesia has a heavenly fragrance, and originates from South Africa.

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Western Honey bee or an Apis dorsata, also known as a European Honey bee dips in to a Hollyhock flower for nectar and pollen collection.

flowers · farmland

A solar water heater sits on the lawn, while geraniums and petunias in flower festoon the edges of the walkways at Deskit Villa in Ladakh.

flowers · monsoon

Heliconia Lobster claw flowers in mid-monsoon flowering at Wilderness Orchard in Delhi Heliconia is a genus of flowering plants in the monotypic family Heliconiaceae.

hills · flowers

Dendrobium denneanum, a subtropical Himalayan orchid growing at the wildfilmsindia gardens in New Delhi. The native range of this species is Himalaya to S. China and Indo-China.

Uttarakhand·flowers

Garden Dahlias have been growing run-wild at our Jabbarkhet Estate in the Western Himalaya since the British era, when garden planted by the Brits. With summer, their rhizomes come alive, and dormant seeds start to sprout.

flowers · wildlife

Kniphofia or Torch Lily is not a true lily, but makes excellent cut flowers and is loved by bees and birds alike.

Uttarakhand·flowers

Birds and bees love the nectar on our Kniphofia flowers in the western Himalaya! With a Grey-winged Blackbird calling, it is summer-monsoon time in our forests.

Uttarakhand·hills · flowers

With the sunshine playing its magic on the hillside behind, this peony slowly opens on our hillsides around Mussoorie. Coral colourd Peony opening in slow motion at Jabbarkhet botanical collections in the Himalaya

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Garden Anemone de caen flowers in red and white, with cottony seed heads drying off and dispersing in the wind. A Cicada calls out in the summer sun.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Seasons and moods at our wildfilmsindia botanical arboretum in the western Himalaya. As the clouds rise up the valley - and this has been a moist spring and summer - the Irises open with the warming days.

Uttarakhand·flowers

With blue skies aplenty and white puffy cotton woolly clouds, Oxeye Daisies flower aplenty at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet botanical collections. Bees pollinate the daisy blooms.

Uttarakhand·flowers

Red double poppy flowers in our smaller poly tunnels and in the open at wildfilmsindia botanical arboretum at Jabbarkhet in the Uttarakhand Himalaya. Red double poppy flowers at wildfilmsindia arboretum at Jabbarkhet in Uttarakhand

Mussoorie, Uttarakhand·flowers

Peony flowering extravaganza at wildfilmsindia botanical collections around Mussoorie in Uttarakhand

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Gardeners and our assistant manager prepare the soil for sunflower seeds and then scatter seeds before planting them into the soil.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Most beautiful Himalayan flower? Born of seed contributed by the Meconopsis Group of the UK, and grown by wildfilmsindia in our Himalaya...