perennial - Koolbloom

Red Valerian

Looks very much like turmeric (Curcuma Longa), but found via Google Lens that this pic is of a different species…

Pictures are from a hike in the Western Ghats (Sahyadris) around 2007. Categories

Photos from some hike in the Western Ghats (Sahyadris) sometime in 2007. Special notes Categories

This plant first attracted me at a public garden on a brilliantly sunny spring day, with its lush spring green…

I have childhood memories of daffodils – not because they grew in my hometown (Madras), but because of Wordsworth’s poem…

Common grape hyacinths are highly fragrant flowers that bloom in dense clusters, in all shades of pastel. In spring in…

One of my favorite flowers, the tulip comes in so many colors and varieties. Keukenhof Botanical Garden is world-famous for…

A striking delicate flower that I first saw on hikes in the Sahyadri hills near Pune. Apparently all parts of…

Asian bleeding-hearts are beautiful flowers usually in pink, but also found other variants (white, yellow…). Categories