The beautiful colours of spring at lalbagh 3.9

Lalbagh Independance day flower show

 

It was that time of the year again - Aug and Jan, the Lalbagh Gardens puts up a display of flowers to celebrate independence and republic day.

This year the central decoration was a floral boat.

 

Here are some of the roses that caught my attention.

 

The beautiful coxcomb

 

The living wall

 

Produce from 'Garden City farmers'

A visit to Lalbagh with the team at work

 

Lalbagh flower show & this year's first flowers

The flower show to celebrate Republic day was on once again at Lalbagh, the center piece this time being a flower decorated Eiffel tower, along with the statue of a lady and of Vivekananda.

I did not visit, hence do not have pictures to share, but I do have some of the first flowers of the year from around me. Surprisingly the gulmohar tree in front of our building flowered in January - not a whole lot of flowers but a few here and there. It was rather surprising as the flowering usually begins only in April - has it been so much hotter?

 This is the one from the pot we have in our balcony.

Strolling through Lalbagh

Every walk through Lalbagh leads to new discoveries. It is a veritable treasure house of nature -- there is so much to learn. This morning I noticed many many bee hives, and the interesting thing was that all of them were on the bombax trees. Amidst the silky cotton drifting around were these white-brown hives, full I'm sure, of stingy bees. Take a look at the branches closely and see if you can spot them.

Next on was this image right out of a fairy tale... a huge canonball tree, full of flowers. Ethereal!

 

Leaves turned red ..

 

And a private residence that reminded me of the ones at the Theosophical Society.

Rows of water lilies at the nursery.. such a pleasant sight in this hot weather..

 

 And finally, the addition to the succulents at home - 

More from Lalbagh

My 'smart'phone helped me take some really cool pictures while at Lalbagh.

fish

the lovely gardens

salvia borders on the lawns

a flowering tree

plumeria and bottlebrush trees

the tree that one of my running mates termed 'the magic faraway tree'

puppies! there were 5 of them

The Bs and Cs of Lalbagh

Bougainvilleas and Cannas at the drive into Lalbagh

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Colville's Glory

A little while back Bangalore blogger LotusLeaf @ Garden Tropics had written about Colville's Glory, pictures of which she had taken in Mysore. Like it always happens, soon after reading about it on her blog, I got to see it for myself - in full bloom in Lalbagh. The trees by the parking lot, which i had mistaken for copperpods, were none other than Colvillea raceoma. It was a spectacular sight, with its fiery red buds and orange flowers amidst the green leaves.