Saturday, June 22, 2013

Private garden of Amer Yar Khan - Lahore

Dr Amer is a Doctor by profession and has tremendous interest in gardening. He has accumulated some wonderful rare plants from his garden. I would like to share some of the beauties in his garden. Hope you will enjoy it. A very large flowered daylily.



Another beautiful daylily
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He has many varieties of hibiscus specially tropical hibiscus. This one is cosmic dancer
hibiscus cosmic dancer




This hibiscus is city slicker
 hibiscus city slacker



He is very fond of fragrant plants so gardenia is an expected plant in his garden. He grows around 6 varieties of gardenia. This one is Aimee Yoshioka the largest gardenia in the world. 
gardenia Aimee Yoshioka



Tall beard iris grow well here in lahore. This one is Cloud Ballet. 


iris Cloud Ballet



This is michelia figo also called as magnolia figo.Common name is banana shrub. Very fragrant flowers but very slow growth

. machelia figo


There are lots of roses in his garden including david austin ones and other fragrant roses. This one is bronze star.
 bronze star



Double delight is one of his favorite roses for both the beauty and intense fragrance. double delight rose



Ebb tide

ebb tide rose



Augusta louise

 Augusta louise rose



He is also growing many bulbous plants as well. This one is a giant amaryllis.



Cybister lima
. Cybister lima



Ornithogalum dubium Ornithogalum dubium



Scilla peruviana. Probably the only scilla which will grow in lahore. Many plants from peru do good in lahore. Scilla peruviana



Some of the vines from his garden. This one is lonicera gold flame, a honey suckle. lonicera gold flame



Lonicera magnifica
 Lonicera magnifica
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Passiflora clear sky
 Passiflora clear sky


Tabebuia haemantha



Tabebuia haemantha

I will post more rare flowers from his garden off and on. I hope you would have enjoyed this virtual tour of his garden.

4 comments:

BernieH said...

I really did enjoy the virtual tour of Dr. Amir's garden. He has a lot of beautiful flowers on show at the moment.

The Day Lilies are gorgeous, and I love the huge Gardenia bloom. I would not have guessed that Tall beard Iris would grow there, or Scilla. That is amazing.

Patrick Pinheiro said...

beautiful pics!

FlowerLady Lorraine said...

Beautiful flowers. It must be a joy to walk around in so much beauty.

FlowerLady

Nic said...

Awesome flowers. I especially liked that small Tabebuia, already flowering so well and with such an intense coloration! Also, I had no idea bearded iris could do well in the plains. I do not think I have ever seen one in my travels on the other side of the border in Delhi or the Indian part of Punjab.


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