10th January is marked as Houseplants Appreciation Day. Here's a collection of many of the pictures of plants in my balcony and some from my friends' gardens. Enjoy the slide show.
flowers
Nature’s Trail (63) Cereus Buds
Buds of cereus plant just a couple of days before the bloom. The flowers begin to open around 7pm and reach a bloom at around 9pm. The plant blooms twice a year. The flowers bloom only for a night .
Nature’s Trail ( 60) Floral Beauty
Nature’s Trail (58)Blooming Tales
Blooming Tales are found Within a bright leafy surround Buzzing with life ! Looking cheerful! These plants are the beauty on ground! Sikiladi
Nature’s Trail (55) Floral Beauty
Rosy blooms on little flowers
Nature’s Trail (45) Neem
Nature’s Trail (45) Floral Beauty
They mingled in friendliness, Almighty's creations! Blended hues of whiteness, merged well with orange ornateness, On a bed of leaves.... Some spiky, stingy.... And some broad flat in sturdiness The rest being tiny in meekness Sikiladi
Nature’s Trail (42) Bougainvillea
Bougainvillea The ornamental plant The fast spreading vine Scrambles over other plants Making it's way through With the spiky thorny approach The "paper flower" gives a scratch Sikiladi
Nature’s Trail (40) Cereus Buds
Night blooming floral tales Night blooming floral tales The bulbs bulge to full term Night blooming floral tales Cereus opens for a night It’s bloom sighting never fails Sikiladi
Nature’s Trail (39) Floral Beauty
Swaying with the breeze Hanging at utmost ease It stands tall in pride The pink beauty in it's stride Escorted by flat, broad Leaves This beauty lives like queens Sikiladi