flowers

flowers

What a fine specimen of flowering wild Hen Magnolia we came across at the Shingba Rhododendron Sanctuary beyond Lachung in north Sikkim! Magnolia globosa, the globe magnolia or hen magnolia, is a species of Magnolia native to Bhutan, southw…

Uttarakhand·flowers

These garden Delphiniums came to wildfilmsindia gardens from Kashmir, and are now naturalized at our Jabbarkhet botanical collections, flowering from spring to fall.

Uttarakhand·flowers · industry

What lovely bird-call at our wildfilmsindia estate, as we examine bees take nectar from digitalis flowering stalks at Jabbarkhet in Mussoorie.

flowers · hills

See how the pollen has amply dusted off on the back of this beetle which feeds within a Crocus or Rain Lily bloom at the wildfilmsindia botanical arboretum in Uttarakhand.

flowers · hills

A valley of flowering yellow poppies grows wild in north Sikkim, in a secret valley beyond Thangu and near Gurudongmar lake.

flowers

Listening to a track is Shekhar Suman in a white floral shirt with bright blue flowers, and clapping his hands to a beat. He folds in arms in, in introspection. Then a broad smile follows. He looks bored now...

flowers · forest

A Sorrel Sapphire Butterfly on an Anemone blossom at the wildfilmsindia Motidhar butterfly sanctuary. This butterfly has as its Latin name Heliophorus sena, with delicate copper dots on the lower edge of its wings.

Uttarakhand·flowers

With the Hill Partridge calling, Giant Yellow Crocus lilies open in the spring sun. Spring flowers at wildfilmsindia's Jabbarkhet botanical collections around Landour in Uttarakhand.

flowers · hills

Primula eliator, perhaps? What garden varieties of Primulaceae are these? Primulas in the Himalayan spring, but not wild species - garden Primulas all! All are seen at the wildfilmsindia botanical gardens around Landour in Uttarakhand.

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…

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

At our Jabbarkhet botanical gardens, the South African origin Agapanthus Lilies are in full bloom, with Oxeye daisies as white contrast, and bees buzzing all around. Hill Partridge and Verditer Flycatchers call in the background audio.

hills · flowers

Morning Glory and other purple blooms in mid-summer Himalayan gardenscape, with allium, chives, garlic and more. The red-purple and white dotty blooms are onion and allium family ones, but what is the purple-blue garden flower?

flowers · hills

First the bee inspects the petals on the outside (why, we wonder?) and then takes off only to land right in the center of the flower, to attack the nectar and in the process do it's service and take away pollen on its legs, only to pollinat…

Uttarakhand·flowers

A range of red, yellow, orange, pink and white Anemones bloom in the mid-summer warmth, at our wildfilmsindia botanical gardens at Pari Tibba in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·flowers

Nasturtium climbers with orange flowers at our wildfilmsindia Motidhar Estate in Mussoorie. Did you know that the leaves are edible and can be eaten in sandwiches or just plain? Even birds and insects love them, no wonder...

flowers · hills

Oriental and Shirley Poppies with fat bumble bees visiting them in our Himalayan gardens. The poppy flower heads shake with the force of the bee visits.

flowers · hills

White delicate garden poppies bloom in our Himalayan gardens, fat Himalayan bumble bees dig in for nectar, at the wildfilmsindia Pari Tibba estate in the Uttarakhand Himalaya.

hills · flowers

Himalayan Butterflies frequent summer-time Dahlias for nectar, at our Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens in the Himalaya.

flowers · monsoon

The first Rain lily of the season is special, even though it is followed by thousands more! See this one open up in time lapse...

flowers · hills

Irises bloom in Himalayan spring - Rhizomatic Iris varieties as well as wild Iris kemaonensis, all flower in March-April at the wildfilmsindia botanical collections and arboretum in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·flowers

These Shasta daisies have turned wild rebels and grow across the slopes of our Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens at Jabbarkhet around Mussoorie, in the summer months.

flowers · farmland

Flowering in the spring of 2022 are these yellow iris grown from corms / bulbs. Dutch Yellow Iris fields at the wildfilmsindia botanical garden and arboretum in Uttarakhand.

flowers · hills

A variety of Alliums flower, including Gladiator, globemaster and giganteum, in our botanical gardens in the Himalaya.