Showing posts with label Flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flowers. Show all posts

Saturday, February 6, 2016

The early signs of Spring


The announcement by the met department that there would be no rains in February this year in and around Islamabad, the sun has started to get warmer with daytime temperatures rising to 20 degrees celsius.
Gazania - the African Daisy blooming

This unusual and early warmth has brought good tidings to the flower lovers as the flowers have started to surface from the spring plantation undertaken in the month of November.
Pansy

While walking around our spring plantations, I could see colourful pansy, gazania flowers surfacing with roses showing their spring excitement too.



While generally the beds remain without flowers, some plants are striving to feel the warmth in the sun, though it is still February cold. 
Here is a daffodills giving flowers and hopefully soon the entire bed will blossom.

I will soon write a full post on our spring plantation, hopefully in March someday, to show the entire lot of plants and seedlings blooming in their multicoloured showcase.

Photo Attribution: All photos have been taken me
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Wisteria Tunnel - The most fragrant heavenly place on the earth


In my childhood I saw a film 'The greatest show on the earth,' the memory of which I have not been able to erase from my memory. But that was fiction and just a couple hours of entertainment, though with a life time nostalgia.


But those who have been to the the Wisteria Tunnel at Kawachi Fuji Gardens, in Kitakyushu, Japan  would not only carry the nostalgia, but the fragrance too in their memory lane for as long as the live.


When I first saw the photos of Wisteria Tunnel, I took these for paintings, but then it dawned on me that I was seeing something natural, very aesthetically laid with countless flowers of different hues and fragrance, giving one a rare sight of one's life. 



The multicoloured flowers hang artistically overhead and sideways when one passes through the densely flowered tunnel of the Wisteria at Kawachi Fuji Gardens. And the fragrance of these flowers is so rich and awe inspiring that one doesn't want the tunnel to end or even to leave the gardens after the tour is over.







I have not been to the Wisteria Tunnel at Kawachi Fuji Gardens, but it would be my wish to be there somehow and see this heavenly garden and preserve it beautiful landscape in my memory lane forever.

All photos are courtesy Jeannie 

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Friday, March 16, 2012

Here comes the sun - and Spring

'Here comes the sun' is one my favourite songs by The Beatles. Whenever I listen to this song, which I do very occasionally, it takes me back into my memories of good old days when I bought this 45-RPM record long time ago. Herein under are the beautiful lyrics of the song, which once you read will find out the relevance of the song with the caption of my post today (I have edited and shorten the compelte lyrics so as not to make it long for the actual post down below):
Here comes the sun
Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, and I say It's all right
Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun
Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been clearHere comes the sun
As narrated in the lyrics of the song above, it is about the sun coming out of the clouds after a long cold winter - a winter that we had this time in Islamabad, which is said to be one of the coldest in the recent past. It really made us shiver when outside and when inside the house, it restricted us closer the fireplace  all day long.

But in this cold winter, my wife who had a passion of gardening, was outside planting seeds and saplings to blossom in the coming spring. and with the sun coming, here is the much awaited spring that my wife prepared our lawn in the cold winter last year.

And today, a sunny day after a long spell of clouds took me outside and see how have we welcomed the warm sun and the accompanying spring - and wow!! I was amazed and dazed at the colourful flowers that have sprang up all over our garden and lawn. I cannot describe the joy I saw on my wife's face as it radiated the same glow as being displayed by the fresh and colourful flowers. While I appreciated the beauty and the gift of the Nature to us, I took a few shots from my cellular camera for sharing with you. Here are some:










And this reminds me one of the beautiful verses:
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I am counting the days
that I can finally
see you

A little digression from the traditional poem, but counting of the days is over as it is spring all over with its multitudes of hues and colours and so soothing fragrance spread into the environment, a making one happy, joyous and cool. and  thanking the nature for all the seasons and the suns, specially the spring. 

Do fall in love in the hobby of gardening and you would know one day what is real joy seeing the sapling and seeds you planted, cared for months during the severe winters and finally seeing these sprouting into beautiful colourful flowers, with butterflies hovering these.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Many hues of roses

We grew up listening to excerpts from Sir Edmund Spencer’s the Faerie Queene:
It was upon a Sommers shynie day,
When Titan faire his beames did display,
In a fresh fountaine, farre from all mens vew,
She bath'd her brest, the boyling heat t'allay;
She bath'd with roses red, and violets blew,
And all the sweetest flowres, that in the forrest grew.

Or the most common:
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Sugar is sweet;
And so are you.

Or still funnier:
Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
Cashews are nuts.
And so are you

All talked of roses being red. Well academically yes, but not actually. Since the gardeners and those having gardening as their hobby would know that roses have a far wider variety than being red only. Although a fully grown red rose stands majestically with its unique smell among other flowers, it loses its charm and attraction when among many other colour ad multicolour verities of its very own kind.

This spring has been our first in our new house and in January earlier this year, my wife brought more than a dozen verities of roses, bedded, pedestal and double pedestal and planted these all along our boundary wall and inside our home lawn. We all waited anxiously for these roses to sprout and bloom – and bloom they did by the grace of Nature. It is amazing to see their vivid colours and smell their beautiful sweet smell.

I am sharing some of these here for the rose lovers – I hope they will enjoy seeing these. 


The pedestal and double pedestal roses are maturing and I will share these in time.

Friday, September 3, 2010

The colourful Poppies

Poppy

Of many flowers that decorate my garden are the brightly coloured poppies every year. This beautiful flower comes in many colours; yellow, orange, white, red and mauve. Poppy flower usually have four to six petals. Before the poppy really unfolds its beauty and blossom, the petals are rather crumpled in the bud. A well laid poppy bed of varying colours really brightens up the home garden and is a treat to look at.

One of the fully grown orange poppy of my garden is as above, shot by me and also shared at Flickr and selected for Flickr Explore.

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A pair of poppies

Friday, August 27, 2010

The magnificent Dahlia

Heart of Dahlia

Of all the flowers, the full bloomed double Dahlia is my favourite. Every season this beautiful flowers blossoms in my garden and satisfies my photographic adventures on these. Dahlia is a perennial plant which is native to Central America, Mexico and Colombia. 

There are 36 known verities of Dahlia. While these have ornamental value in the home gardens, it is also used for food.
View here some of my flower/other photos at Flickr

And one important information: Dahlia is named after an 18th century Swedish botanist Andres Dahl.

The above photo of Dahlia from my garden was shot by me and I feel pleased to share it.

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Saturday, December 19, 2009