flowers

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…

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!…

hills · flowers

Bunches of sunflowers from a new variety grow at our botanical collections in the Motidhar valley on wildfilmsindia's Pari Tibba Estate. New Sunflower varieties grown at wildfilmsindia botanical collections and arboreta in the Himalaya

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

In the forests around Mussoorie, at the wildfilmsindia arboreta, see these giant Sunflowers being pollinated by Himalayan bees, at the wildfilmsindia botanical gardens.

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!…

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This variety is the easiest sunflower type to grow in India. Their seeds spread easily and they become wild flowers, even as parakeets are able to do minimal damage to them as their seeds are so tiny.

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.

lake · flowers

Trypophobia alert! Mature seed pod of a Bhartiya Kamal or Lotus, ready to expel the seeds into the pond.

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A Lotus or the all-Indian kamal flower sheds petals and goes into seeding mode. See slow motion action of this occurring before your eyes, during the monsoon season.

festival · flowers

Much festive fervour, chanting, clashing of hand cymbals, rose petals being showered and more... They bring the idol out swaying, jhulo-ing it like it is being swayed in a palanquin.

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Butterfly on Dahlia flower. Butterfly on Dahlia flower and geranium leaf and flower.

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Small Yellow Sailor butterfly (Neptis miah Moore) on allium onion flowers at the wildfilmsindia. Or is it a Common Lascar? Help us confirm the ID. A Common Tortoiseshell butterfly follows on the same flower.

forest · flowers

The rushing Yumthang chhu passes through the thick temperate broad-leaved forests of Dombang near Yumthang in north Sikkim. Larch and other confiders admix with a range of high altitude vegetation.

Gangtok, Sikkim·highway · flowers

If you want to visit Gangtok, and do not want to battle traffic jams, crowded markets and still want to see the open spaces, forests and high mountains of Sikkim, then dodge Gangtok and come on over to Samdong - a quiet, peaceful, unhurried…

Karnataka·flowers · bazaar

A local flower Market in Bengaluru, with garlands being made by men and women, in their stalls. Come here for tuberose or rajanigandha garlands, marigold malas, rose garlands and more.

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…

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forest · flowers

A female brown coloured Kaleej Pheasant in a high altitude Rhododendron forest and shrubbery at around 8500 feet altitude at the Shingba Rhododendron Sanctuary in north Sikkim, India.

river · hills

The blue-green glacial icy melt waters and the Inula daisies in flower along the shores of this high altitude trans Himalayan lake make for an other-worldly vision of the old India with a Himalaya that was unsullied.

hills · flowers

Primula (not sikkimensis) and Inula daisy fields of flowers in north Sikkim 17th June 2022, between Thangu and Gurudongmar, as seen near the army encampment, along the Lachen Chhu or the nascent Teesta river.

farmland · flowers

A Sikkimese woman cleans her backyard garden of the old crop of a cereal crop (surely not wheat???), and prepares the lovely black enriched and moist soil for the next crop, in time for autumn harvesting.

flowers · hills

Said to be one of the most beautiful flowers in the world - the Blue Poppy can be seen here growing at 15, 500 feet altitude in summer in north Sikkim, India.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Bunches of run-wild Crocuses have taken over our early monsoon late summer hillsides at the Jabbarkhet botanical gardens of wildfilmsindia, overlooking the plains and the higher mountains of the Himalaya, as garden escapes that have got nat…