Flower show at Empress Garden

There was a flower show for 3 days at the Empress Garden, near to the Race course, Pune. We visited on Sunday and it was the last day of the show. The garden has many huge trees which gives much shade to the sprawling garden. I am visiting the garden for the first time. So I don't know how the garden is during the other days. But most part of the garden looked done up as part of the on going flower show.  There were stalls featuring flower arrangements based on Kitchen theme, Ikebana, Bonsai plants. A stall had flower portraits too. There were many nurseries selling potted plants, garden related tools, manure, pots etc. For those interested in gardening, this was a good opportunity to spruce up their gardening space. The competition entrees was displayed in a separate stall which had different flower arrangements, fresh produce and cut flowers. I loved the Rasoi Theme arrangement very much.

Here are some shots taken at the flower show.




Rasoi Theme




From the Competition Entrees



Bonsai

Thechi/Chethi Poo ~ From My Garden

In my childhood days, we used to suck the nectar from the thechi poo. This was one of the favorite past time during summer holidays.

Chuvappu/Red Thechi

Manja/Yellow Thechi

Different colors of Hibiscus from my garden

Hibiscus/ Chembarathi(in Malayalam) - Few pics of the varieites of hibiscus from my garden.

The word Chembarathi even now brings the image of this variety to my mind, though numerous hybrid varities are around.

There are few more colors in my garden, which I could not click before the plants were trimmed.