FLOWERS- Just hearing the word brings to mind pictures of beauty, colour and fragrance. The brilliant symmetry, the amazing designs, the wonderful shapes, and the perfect colour-coordination - they are truly an ode to life and living; nature at her creative best!
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| Potato flowers |
Flowering indicates the start of the plant's life-cycle : flowers to fruit; fruit to seed; and seed to a new plant, thus completing the full-circle. A flower signifies the onset and progress of life, it holds promise and embodies all the aspirations that the future has in store.
For a vegetable grower or a horticulturist, the day the plant starts flowering is a day of celebration.While we know several flowers in the floral kingdom, little do we stop to admire the flowers of the vegetable world.
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| Pumpkin flower |
As I walked into the green patch on my terrace, I was awed by the beauty and brilliance of these flowers that slowly and magically turn into vegetables. I was able to capture the few that were present. There are many more beauties out there, attracting the bees and other pollinators and giving us our daily supply of vitamins and minerals! Here's looking at a few of them.
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| Green brinjal's flower |
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| Flowers of the Lemon plant |
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| One more of the gourds! |
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| Radish flowers |
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| Basil plant flowers |
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| The ubiquitous tomato flowers |
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| Possibly cucumber, not sure |
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| Purple brinjal flower |
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| Snake gourd's flower - ethereal beauty! |
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| Flowers of the chayote - chow chow plant |
