It's been a long time we haven't posted photos here

I took this picture last December in Switzerland while we stopped for a while to take in the breathtaking scenery , while driving on to Jura Mountains..

Another flower from our house. Walking Iris blooms only for a day and then withers.

jabeen wrote:

Another flower from our house. Walking Iris blooms only for a day and then withers.

Wow , what a beautiful and unusual looking flower ? Is it a wild flower ? Some of the wild flowers are very very attractive..

usha manohar wrote:

I took this picture last December in Switzerland while we stopped for a while to take in the breathtaking scenery , while driving on to Jura Mountains..

Amazing! Switzerland is simply breathtaking. You are so lucky that your daughter lives there so you can go there anytime you want! :)

Here is one of passionflower while on a trip to Chiplun. It is such a beautiful flower that grows on vines. I am quite sure that it is common and seen all over India!

A panoramic view of Canberra on a lovey evening from Mount Majura, the highest point in Canberra, Australia

You can use it for free from https://o0.nz/i/Fy7f with proper attribution.  

Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:

Here is one of passionflower while on a trip to Chiplun. It is such a beautiful flower that grows on vines. I am quite sure that it is common and seen all over India!

It is passion fruit flower , grows wild in my ancestral home with lots of fruits ..will try to post a picture when it is flowering 

This is an extremely pretty little town called Colmar  that I visited last November , that is on the Swiss/ French border

usha manohar wrote:

Nice picture Sunil ...one from me taken while we were driving through the outskirts of Mangalore..

It is beautiful one, if I am not wrong it is of your farm.

Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:

Here is one of passionflower while on a trip to Chiplun. It is such a beautiful flower that grows on vines. I am quite sure that it is common and seen all over India!

I don't think it's common and seen in all parts of India. But I have seen it in some other places.

usha manohar wrote:

This is an extremely pretty little town called Colmar  that I visited last November , that is on the Swiss/ French border

 

Thanks for posting it. It sure is motivation image in more than one ways.

usha manohar wrote:

This is an extremely pretty little town called Colmar  that I visited last November , that is on the Swiss/ French border

 

Its beautiful. You have visited  so many beautiful places!!

By the way, walking Iris isn't a wild flower. Its grown at so many houses.

Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:

Here is one of passionflower while on a trip to Chiplun. It is such a beautiful flower that grows on vines. I am quite sure that it is common and seen all over India!

Its a beautiful flower. If I am not mistaken its mostly found in cold places.  I love is fruits too. Some people make medicine out of its tender leaves, either by boiling or roasting them.

suni51 wrote:

usha manohar wrote:

This is an extremely pretty little town called Colmar  that I visited last November , that is on the Swiss/ French border

 

Thanks for posting it. It sure is motivation image in more than one ways.

It is truly motivating to see how beautiful and pretty a town or city can look like if the citizens have the will to do so!

@Usha and Jabeen, the Passionflower I have posted photo of is an ornamental flower and does not produce Passionfruits, but they are both from the same family and the flowers also look very similar, but the flowers of passionfruit vine are more whiter with purple undertones and slightly smaller in size as well. There is also another bright red varity which is called Passionflower sherry (after sherry wine) which I have take photo of during the same trip to Chiplun. Will post it soon.

Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:

suni51 wrote:

usha manohar wrote:

This is an extremely pretty little town called Colmar  that I visited last November , that is on the Swiss/ French border

 

Thanks for posting it. It sure is motivation image in more than one ways.

It is truly motivating to see how beautiful and pretty a town or city can look like if the citizens have the will to do so!

For we Indian city like it is a dream. 

suni51 wrote:

Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:

Here is one of passionflower while on a trip to Chiplun. It is such a beautiful flower that grows on vines. I am quite sure that it is common and seen all over India!

I don't think it's common and seen in all parts of India. But I have seen it in some other places.

I never seen this flower in my are. It is beautiful.

anil wrote:

Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:

suni51 wrote:

usha manohar wrote:

This is an extremely pretty little town called Colmar  that I visited last November , that is on the Swiss/ French border

 

Thanks for posting it. It sure is motivation image in more than one ways.

It is truly motivating to see how beautiful and pretty a town or city can look like if the citizens have the will to do so!

For we Indian city like it is a dream. 

That's not true, you have got to visit place like Sikkim or other South India and NE states of India and see the beauty and cleanliness. I was once very close to Mawlynnong (I hope I have spelled it correctly) village near Shillong which is considered the cleanest village of India. I have seen number of such clean places in South India, NE, and in bordering states of India.  

This flower is called Parijaat

jabeen wrote:

This flower is called Parijaat

No Jabeen, these flowers are called Madhumalti or Rangoon creeper, but these are really beautiful and have a lovely fragrance. In my city, people plant this vine very commonly for the lovely flowers which have varying shades from pink-white to deep red.  Parijat flowers are what Shampa has posted earlier. Also called Harsingar in Hindi and Prajakta in Marathi.