Delhi is world’s 10th most polluted city. This is what a recent report on World Environment Day said. But for people like me, Delhi is where home is. It is where we live, breathe, eat, pray, love, dance, sing, and do all those things that make us human. So it’s a special city and one special thing, among lots of other things, is its poetic rhythm of 4 distinct seasons, spring, summer, rainy season, and winter. Each season has a distinct color, aroma, and flavor and brings along with it its own kind of flowers. Some flowers bloom all through the year in all seasons and some stay in only certain seasons.
Recently, around March 2015, I took upon myself the task of clicking and recording photos of flowers that are commonly found all over the city. I thought it would be a good way of removing negativity from my life, of taking my mind off all those terrible things about Delhi that one finds in newspapers daily, crime, corruption, water shortage, inflation, new taxes, AAP versus BJP squabbles, etc, etc. Here are some close-up shots of flowers that I came across while going about from home to office and back. Just take a look. They look so mesmerizing beautiful!
I am still unaware of names of most of these flowers. That’s why I have mentioned only some of them. Do let me know if you do.
March 2015 (Spring)
- Hibiscus (in my balcony)
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5. Rose Flower…
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13. b.The ubiquitous Bougainvillea…
13. c.
13. d.
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13. g.
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14. b.
14. c.
14. d.
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16. a. See Aloe Vera below (very sturdy plant, see how it continues to flower even when uprooted from the pot)
16. b.
16. c.
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18. Palash flowers – Lajwanti Garden – Janakpuri – Delhi
April 15: Summer is here and weather is getting warmer.
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20. Phlox – my terrace at home – Delhi
21. a. Sunflower
21. b.
22. The pink flowers below are very commonly found at roadsides in Delhi.
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23. b.
23. c.
45.a. The flowers below are actually fungus growths growing on a block of wood that has become damp due to exposure to heavy rain.
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50. Orange blossoms…(Below)
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A very pretty post 🙂
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Thank you, Bhavika, for liking my post…
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Hi Jasbir,
I am from AG-1 Vikaspuri and I currently live in Michigan USA. I was searching for AG-1 block’s pix and landed on your blog to delightfully see some beautiful pix of the central park with flowers. I used to play cricket there from 1986 to 1991 and occasionally from 1998 to 2003 !
Thanks for posting these pix, means a lot for me as I was feeling sooo nostalgic.
Thanks !
Rajiv
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Thank you, Rajiv, for your kind words and appreciation…Also read my latest post ‘Broken Gods.’ It’s about a little boy Golu whom I met outside Hanuman temple near AG-1, Vikaspuri. Do you remember that small temple near the mother dairy booth? That’s the temple I am talking about.
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hey i live in vikaspuri
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Nice to know that.
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In this there the flower has no name and pic are also not clear
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Thanks for commenting, Rama Shankar Kumar. A few flowers do bear names. The others that don’t were strangers for me. I wasn’t aware of their names when I wrote this post and I didn’t have the Google lens facility at that time. All I did was writing and posting about what I saw and felt. It wasn’t meant to be a scholarly post about Delhi’s flowers.
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