Friday, October 9, 2015

Flowers of the Vegetable Kingdom


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!

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. 

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.   



Green brinjal's flower







Flowers of the Lemon plant
One more of the gourds!

 





Radish flowers





Basil plant flowers



The ubiquitous tomato flowers






Possibly cucumber, not sure




Purple brinjal flower




Snake gourd's flower - ethereal beauty!





Flowers of the chayote - chow chow plant





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