Jacarandes

Updated: 6 days ago Flowers are the easiest way to identity a tree I feel. So let’s start recognising trees which are in bloom now. Jacarandas flooding the roads of our lovely Bangalore. It is a joy to walk on the streets as the wind sways down these beautiful light flowers on our cars, our bags…

ICE Bling

Its my birthday again. How old am I? I will just say that I am as old as my tongue, and a little older than my teeth! “Hema I am making coffee. Don’t settle in the bathroom for too long”, calls Mahesh shaking me from my half dozed thoughts while in the bathroom. Now hold…

Elephant Apple Flower

Dillenia indica, commonly known as is a species of Dillenia native to southeastern Asia, from India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka east to southwestern Cåhina (Yunnan) and Vietnam, and south through Thailand to Malaysia and Indonesia. Botanical Name : Dillenia indica Common Name : elephant apple or chulta, Location : Lalbagh Date : 8.8.18 It is…

Banana flower

Botanical Name: musa velutina Common Name : hairy banana or pink banana Family : Musaceae Place : Lalbagh, Jayanagar Date : 17.6.18 There are always flowers for those who want to see them – Henri Matisse I have been watching this flower almost for a week now. The first shoot of the flower was in a beautiful pink,…

The Rain Tree

Botanical Name: Samanea saman Common Name : Rain Tree Place : Lalbagh, Bengaluru Date : 1.7.17 Samanea saman is a species of flowering tree in the pea family, Fabaceae, that is native to the Central and South America. Saman is a wide-canopied tree with a large symmetrical umbrella-shaped crown. It usually reaches a height of 15–25 m (49–82 ft)…

Kadale Beeja Festival Bengaluru

Kadale Beeja festival Bull temple Rd. “Auto ivathu Bull temple Rd athra baralla Bidi” said many a men riding their autos, untill the man of my need arrived in a vehicle with a green carcasses cladded with a sheet of black artificial leather and banded with an armour of aluminium frames. My Auto . ”…