hills

flowers · hills

Mulde Peak, commands a majestic sweep of the central Himalaya from its 3,650m perch. This is Poon Hill minus the crowds, higher and closer to the Annapurnas. The trek to Mulde is lined with different species of rhododendron trees.

hills · monsoon

This Impatiens species of wild Himalayan yellow Balsam grows in great numbers covering the slopes of the western Himalaya during the months of monsoon profusion.

flowers · hills

From the early days of Himalayan flower filming by Rupin Dang, these flowers were photographed in the Ruinsara Tal valley of the Govind Ballabh Pant Pashu Vihar or Har ki dun sanctuary.

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These lovely post monsoon Bistortas look brilliant in this artistic view of the glacier below Lamjhaga pass in the Jallandhri Gad. Uttarakhand , formerly Uttaranchal, is a state in the northern part of India.

industry · flowers

Lovely pink insides to these waxy white flowers that grow on the moister parts of our hillsides, mostly on the north faces.

flowers · hills

In the May summer heat of the Delhi lockdown in 2020, this delicate and beautiful eastern Himalayan Dendrobium Orchid came into bloom at the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens.

hills · flowers

Blue Globe Thistle in full bloom in the high valleys of the Garhwal Himalaya, in late autumn in the month of October 2020. These are mostly found in the higher altitude areas of the Himalayan Range.

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This shrub does not appear to be either Berberis or Gaultheria. Help us identify it, folks! Looks like we don't have to worry about nutrition again while trekking in the Garhwal Himalaya. Read and watch to find out.

flowers · hills

The sun rises from behind Srikanta peak and adjacent range peaks in the Garhwal Himalaya. Late flowering Geum elatum is an unusual sight in October, but the Aconitum violaceum is usually seen at this time itself, in the autumn season, and t…

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It is one of those rarely seen wonders of nature which are rarely seen by just a few, among the freezing high altitude rocks of the Garhwal Himalaya.

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A freezing Chhaian Gad Valley even in autumn in the Garhwal Himalaya supporting life in unusual forms with peculiar looking fungi sprouting from tree stems.

hills · flowers

A sea of rarely seen Himalayan wildflowers in the cold valley of the Garhwal Himalaya with matured seeds ready for the next year's flowering season. A field of white-cotton like matured seeds cover the valley surface near a small brook.

hills · highway

Primula floribunda is a delicate yellow winter flowering middle altitude Himalayan primula plant which flowers in large bunches along forest paths and moist road-sides in limestone belts of the middle and lower Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·hills · flowers

This beautiful flowering Mangolia from the eastern Himalaya grows in the botanical collections of wildfilmsindia around Landour in Mussoorie, flowering for the first time in ten years after having been planted here from a specimen brought…

flowers · hills

The red Rhododendron or Rhododendron arboreum is a Himalayan flowering shrub and this spring the blooms are back in full glory, Flaming red bunches among the green leaves.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Rhododendron arboreum paints open forest in red | Himalayan flowers blooming in spring. Florets from the Rhododendron shrub cover the forest floor and it's flaming with Himalayan flowers at our Wilderness Estate in Jabbarkhet.

flowers · hills

Paeonia emodi grows in a semi-wild state at the wildfilmsindia botanical gardens at Motidhar in Uttarakhang, having been naturalized from the higher Himalaya in this forest location at a lower altitude where it is flourishing, flowering an…

flowers · hills

Paeonia emodi grows in a semi-wild state at the wildfilmsindia botanical gardens at Motidhar in Uttarakhang, having been naturalized from the higher Himalaya in this forest location at a lower altitude where it is flourishing, flowering an…

hills · flowers

A gyro-stabilized walk-through of the Valley of Flowers route from Ghangariya up to the valley itself.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

These delightful white and pink wild Begonias grow wild on our Himalayan slopes at our wildfilmsindia sanctuary in the western Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·monsoon · hills

Help us identify this species of jungli pahari ginger. A wild Himalayan Ginger plant flowers in the prolific monsoon months at the wildfilmsindia Pari Tibba Estate in Motidhar, Mussoorie. Frogs call from our trout ponds!

flowers · hills

A steep, verdant hillside covered with flowering Wild Dahlia plants. Numerous blossoms in shades of pink, magenta, red, yellow, white, and lavender are scattered across the slope.

hills · flowers

A Himalayan Agama eats Berberis flowers in the hills of Uttarakhand, India. Isn't this strange behaviour for a lizard to be eating berries from a thorny shrub? Even the lizard seems to recognize the high Vitamin C potential of this shrub th…