The tree is covered in a canopy of small narrow green leaves radiating out from drooping branches with bright red bristle like flowers seen hanging downwards at the edges; the uncommon foliage and flora catches the eye; the flowers look like colourful tinsel tied onto the edges of the limp branches and the tree looks…
Tag: Spring
Tabebuia time in Bangalore 🌸🌸
It’s Tulip time in Netherlands, Cherry Blossom in Japan and Tabebuia in Bangalore 💮💮 “From the first weeks of January when the silk cottons and the tecomas and jacarandas start putting out their flowers, Bangalore can count on eight to nine months of spectacular flowers as each species does its bit, until the season ends with a…
Bangalore’s Jacaranda 🪁
This beautiful flowering tree is quintessential to Bangalore’s nostalgic spring and summer months. The delicate bell shaped flower blooming in clusters and framed against the blue sky is an enchanting sight. Last year 👉 POTD: Jacaranda 💜 Learning a little about it’s history, the tree was introduced in India during the British Raj from Brazil;…
A speck of blue in the Morpankhi 🪴
It is a planted presence in almost every garden; we have rows of them in our apartment complex. They are eye-catching for their peculiar foliage; the pine like leaves grow in a single plane outwards giving it a fan like appearance. But it’s spring and they too are in bloom, tiny yellow flowers; the fruits…
City Hues 💖
The changing seasons bring about a kaleidoscope of colours in the sky; in Feb, the cloudy grey early mornings give way to a cover of myriad shades of blue with fluffy white cumulus clouds orchestrated to hijack our thoughts (for a moment at least), by forming vaguely familiar but mostly mysterious patterns; floating to elsewhere but…
POTD: Spider Lily 🕸
Second month into the year; the days are getting hotter while the nights are still cool in Bangalore. The cyclical changes that happen year round have become familiar and hence we can look forward to the days with happy expectations. And when we look out for the familiar we begin to notice the new things…
Colour for the season 🌼
5 Feb is Basant Panchmi, the festival to mark the transition from winter into the spring season 🌼 which culminates with the Holi celebrations exactly 40 days from this day ie on 17 March (a holiday! 😌). The traditional colour for Basant Panchmi is yellow and the flower for the festivities has to be the…
Miles and smiles 