Beautiful Pink Flowers I shot at Geary Street in San Francisco at a vendor near Union Square
Lighthouse in Pondycherry
10 years ago
Red Hollyhocks
Red Hollyhock shot from my canon xti rebel at Garden of Five Senses, New delhi , India.
orange ranunculus
Shot of the orange Persian Buttercup shot in Garden of Five Senses , New Delhi. I used a canon Xti rebel and a 60 MM USM macro lens . Its was bright afternoon on a Sunday .
Ranunculus or Persian Buttercup
Persian Buttercup shot at garden of five sense in new delhi with canon xti rebel camera and 60 MM Macro lens
Dahlia Procession
The exuberance of Dahlia at garden of five senses , New delhi. This arrangement had won the first prize in the exhibition. Shot this with Canon Xti Rebel.
Pink Hollyhocks with bees
I shot these Alcea Rosea at Garden of Five senses today . There was a flower exhibition there and I had gone there to shoot some flowers.
Botanical and Common Name: The scientific name for Hollyhocks is Alcea rosea but used to go by the scientific name Althaea and is still seen that way in garden catalogs on occasion. More on http://plantsbulbs.suite101.com/article.cfm/hollyhock_alcea_plant_profile
Lillies at Spencer's
Shot these beauties today at Spencer's hypermarket in Gurgaon with my Samsung Omnia
twins Macro
Beautiful Desert rose shot at my previous residence in Bangalore.
Gazania in my Balcony Garden
The beautiful yellow Gazania shot in my balcony garden with my Samsung Omnia mobile phone
Pink Purple Dahlia
This beautiful pink Dahlia is show in my balcony garden in Gurgaon.
Propagation and Planting
Dahlias can propagate or multiply from seeds, root division or cuttings. Single-flowered dahlias produce lots of seed. It is from seed that new varieties are produced. Seeds can be sown 1/2 inch deep in a well drained medium in a container, indoors or outdoors (in warm regions) usually during March/April. In a weather like bangalore many flowers grow all through the year but not in Delhi/Gurgaon These flowers need moist soil and indirect light. The seeds will sprout in 7-21 days. When the sprouts have two or more sets of true leaves (about five weeks) transplant them to three-inch pots and plant them outdoors.
I was reading some place that to get maximum sized flowers, some of these buds should be pinched out. If only one bud is allowed to develop, the largest possible flower will be produced. It takes about 6 weeks from the time buds are removed until another series of buds is formed and about three weeks longer for the buds to open.
rajnigandha (रजनीगंधा)
The heavenly smelling Mexican tuberose shot at home,we always get them for our bedroom .
Rajanigandha means "The Fragrance of the Night". It is a flower that is both mythical and magical, its nectar said by some to have special powers and its scent magical and even when the flower is wilting away the smell remains. They also last long on flower arrangements for nearly a week if water is changed regularly .Tuberoses are a popular flower in floral arrangements and their scent is used to produce perfumes the world over. This is a perennial flower available and flowering all through the year
Red Poppy
A poppy is any of a number of showy flowers, typically with one per stem, belonging to the poppy family. They include a number of attractive wildflower species with showy flowers found growing singularly or in large groups; many species are also grown in gardens. Those that are grown in gardens include large plants used in a mixed herbaceous border and small plants that are grown in rock or alpine gardens.
The flower color of poppy species include: white, pink, yellow, orange, red and blue; some have dark center markings. The species that have been cultivated for many years also include many other colors ranging from dark solid colors to soft pastel shades. The center of the flower has a whorl of stamens surrounded by a cup- or bowl-shaped collection of four to six petals. Prior to blooming, the petals are crumpled in bud, and as blooming finishes, the petals often lie flat before falling away.
Culinary uses
The sugared, milled mature seeds are eaten with pasta, or they are boiled with milk and used as filling or topping on various kinds of sweet pastry. Milling of mature seeds is carried out either industrially or at home, where it is generally done with a manual poppy seed mill.
Poppy seeds are widely used in Andhra cuisine, Bengali cuisine, Oriya cuisine, German cuisine, Ukrainian cuisine, Malabar Cuisine (Northern Kerala), Romanian cuisine, Hungarian cuisine and the Cuisine of Austria.
In Mexico, Grupo Modelo, the makers of Corona beer, used red poppy flowers in its advertising (almost any image it used had poppy flowers somewhere in the image) until the 1960s.
More on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppy
daisy at Home
This is the flower from the new pot I brought home on Saturday. Spring time some of the blooms in north are gorgeous
Chao Phraya River shot from Lebua (Explore)
View of the Chao Phraya river from Lebua hotel balcony on 55th floor. One of the best views I have ever seen .
sunset Uniworld gardens 2
Beautiful Sunset captured on a Sunday evening in Gurgaon
View of Mumbai skies
Shot this view in Mumbai during my visit on there on 30th Jan 2009. I always like Mumbai skies from a photography point of view as the clouds always create beautiful shapes and art of their own. Some of my best sky shots have been taken in this lovely city.
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