Sunday, April 24, 2011

Flowers of gazania, aquilegia, crape jasmine and millettia

Talking of spring flowers annuals, only few are flowering right now. Heat is coming in fast and only drought tolerant plants are blooming. Some annuals in the shade are also showing their flowers. I would call it the remnants of spring. The first one is gazania. A drought tolerant plant which blooms till mid summer here.
gazania flowering in lahore heat

This aquilegia is in shade in my soil bed and only gets few hours morning sunlight. Columbine flower is an annual in lahore though some gardeners manage them as perennials.
pink aquilegia columbine

This is Tabernaemontana divaricata, crape jasmine which is called chandni locally. A perennial, it blooms almost all summer enduring summer heat. Sadly neither the single flowers nor the double ones are fragrant. But i heard that there are some fragrant crape jasmines as well.
chandni double crape jasmine

Talking of trees, here comes another species of millettia. It is probably millettia pinnata also called pongam tree native to india, pakistan, japan , thailand, malaysia.  It another variety of sheesham having beautiful flowers. Flowers clearly show they are from Fabaceae (pea) family.
This is the close up of flowers.
shesham tree millettia pinnata

Flowers clearly show they are from pea family.
macro millettia pinnata lahore

Tree is covered with flowers and leaves are none or very few making it very beautiful tree.
pongam tree sheesham lahore

For other beautiful flowers blooming all around the world, visit Today's Flowers

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9 comments:

Bom said...

Great looking flowers you have. The gazania is really vibrant.

Martha Z said...

Gazania is a lovely flower and I once grew it in my garden. Maybe I should try it again.

Kala said...

Lovely details in the image of the gazania. Happy Macro Monday

Sandbergs Fotoblogg said...

Oh, what wonderful macro you show up!

Jennifer Bowen said...

That first shot is stunning! What a beautiful flower! Never seen one of those before. Love your photos. Thanks for sharing. =)

Fotokarusellen said...

This is a beautiful set if images. Well captured.

Judy said...

You have a wonderful eye, and I will have to come back and explore, when work is not looming at me...

Anonymous said...

I love the first photo. The colors are gorgeous!

Lisa

Laura said...

each flower is so different and so beautiful...like people:-)


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