Flowers — Clipahoy

Petunias - all pink - colour the roads and verges around South Delhi, under NDMC Horticulture

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Honking crazy traffic and calming flower beds. Both go hand in hand in South Delhi. Aeroplanes overhead, but the petunias all pink and the white daisy type annuals, all look splendorous in the New Delhi spring, before the city begins to dro…

The city beautiful? Delhi wears a bright now look each spring, before the summer heat pulls us down

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Daisy like flowers bright up and shine around the AIIMS Medical Ring Road crossing, in spring-time. Who would have imagined such a vision of Delhi? Streets lined with rows or colour coordinated petunias and dairy like flowers.

The new landscape of New Delhi: A city of flowers in winter, with petunia beds along AIIMS Ring Road

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Who would have imagined such a vision of Delhi? Streets lined with rows or colour coordinated petunias and dairy like flowers. Traffic going by in an orderly fashion. Neat rows of buildings in Kidwai Nagar.

Petunia flowers colour verges of AIIMS roundabout with purple & pink in Delhi: spring time profusion

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Petunia flowers colour verges of AIIMS roundabout with purple and pink, in Delhi Who would have imagined such a vision of Delhi? Streets lined with rows or colour coordinated petunias and dairy like flowers.

Ice plants close in front of our eyes, as they track the sun across the sky, and prepare for night

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They track the sun and close for the day. Baraf or ice plant aka Mesembryanthemum

Oriental Poppy flowering heads shoot above the plant, to catch sun and attract pollinating insects, in Delhi

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Sporting huge, cup-shaped blooms in early summer, the Oriental poppy is the most striking of the perennial poppies, and the delicate, papery flowers belie the plant's hardiness and durability.

Nasturtium are entirely edible plants - from flowers and leaves to stems! Attractive, easy to grow!

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Nasturtium are entirely edible plants - from flowers and leaves to stems! Besides, they are attractive and easy to grow, except that peafowl and partridge love to feast on the growing leaves and stems.

Peach blossom in Delhi's spring-time, but now mostly shed thanks to a windy rainy week past

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Crowded Delhi also has peach orchards in spring-time bloom, with visiting Sunbirds! A Purple Sunbird male in brilliant iridescent purple breeding plumage visits peach blooms in a New Delhi peach orchard, as the warm weather makes for lovely…

Delicate white blooms will eventually turn to juicy red plums: ephemeral spring-time of north India, in Delhi

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A plum tree flowers profusely at the Wilderness Orchard botanical gardens in Delhi, in the ephemeral spring-time of north India! Plum blossom in Delhi? Tis so, with this profusely flowering aloo bukhara tree! Delicate white blooms will even…

Baraf or ice plant aka Mesembryanthemum: They track the sun and close for the day!

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They track the sun and close for the day. Baraf or ice plant aka Mesembryanthemum

Plum blossom in Delhi? Tis so, with this profusely flowering aloo bukhara tree!

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A plum tree flowers profusely at the Wilderness Orchard botanical gardens in Delhi, in the ephemeral spring-time of north India! Plum blossom in Delhi? Tis so, with this profusely flowering aloo bukhara tree!

Hyacinth flowering in Delhi: a whiff of a strong fragrance and bursts of different colours

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Hyacinth plants flowering in Delhi. Hyacinth bulbs are fairly non-fussy but they often flower within the leaves and have to be coaxed to flower out and up.

Bellis perennis red daisies flower in early north Indian spring, as do Begonia and Shirley Poppies

flowers · industry

Bellis perennis red daisies, pansies and, Begonia flowers in the early north Indian spring, as also Shirley Poppies. The humble begonia is a perennial that flowers each year, seeds and spreads through the roots as well.

Turmeric being dried in winter sun of north India: Haldi being prepared for haldi doodh and cooking, in Delhi

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Is Haldi a spice or a vegetable? At any rate, we grew this organic haldi in our Delhi botanical gardens and have cut and are drying it here in the winter sun, in order to use for Haldi doodh - Turmeric milk and other Indian cuisines prepara…

Grey-winged Blackbird, one of the finest songsters in the Himalaya, but shy and silent here

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Normally a vociferous songster, here the Blackbird sits quietly in an Oak tree, and NOT in the mood to sing! The rich humus and fallen dry leaves on a forest floor is perfect breeding grounds for a multitude of insects.

Light snowfall covers our Saffron crocus fields with a light dusting of powdery snow, in Mussoorie

Uttarakhand·snow · farmland

An early winter light snowfall covers our Saffron crocus fields with a light dusting of powdery snow that will rapidly melt off when it warms, thus nicely watering the Crocus sativus bulbs within the ground, and the Agapanthus lilies later…

Pink tulips aflower in Nehru Park: Does Indian Govt. need to buy millions of tulips at Rs. 100 each, in Delhi

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Imagine - Delhi city pays around Rs. 60 to 100 per tulip flower bulb only to have to flower once and then discard the same? Normally, tulips are grown year after year in cold weather locales, but in Delhi's heat, they are left in the ground…

Yellow Tulip galore at Nehru Park: Swadeshi twist to use and throw videshi Holland flower bulbs, in Delhi

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Imagine - Delhi city pays around Rs. 60 to 100 per tulip flower bulb only to have to flower once and then discard the same? Normally, tulips are grown year after year in cold weather locales, but in Delhi's heat, they are left in the ground…

Cineraria flowers bloom along Delhi's roads, in ephemeral spring, low floor green CNG run buses ply

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Low floor green CNG run buses ply on Delhi's Ring Road, going past a bed of Cineraria and daisy flowers in our ephemeral spring season, near AIIMS. Cineraria flowers bloom along Delhi's roadsides, in the ephemeral spring season

Orange Tulips look lovely in Delhi, but surely we could come up with own plants, and not imports!

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New Delhi Municipal Council has gone shopping with a tender that was satisfied by a Dutch bulb supplier such as Derck Schipper.

Saffron harvest still a few weeks off, first Crocus sativus flowers begin to appear in early winter, in Landour

Uttarakhand·flowers · farmland

The red stamens of the Kesar crocus from Spain are what are picked, dried and used as the super high value spice of kesar.

Pink Tulips along Delhi's roads: Not Atmanirbhar and a waste of govt. funds, but pretty to look at

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White Tulips on Delhi's roadsides: Not very Atmanirbhar and waste of funds, but pretty nonetheless. To think we don't even regenerate the bulbs and just let them rot in the ground.

Fountain, steel sprouts at AIIMS Flyover garden - New addition to Delhi landscape - pretty or ugly?

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Tulips in Delhi! Are we trying to become Amsterdam? Are these new additions a welcome feature or a burden on government budgets? Is the NMDC going over-board with planting tulips and sprouts of metal, or should it use the money for betterme…