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Thursday, January 22, 2015

Bangalore flower show 2015

The bi-annual flower show at Lalbagh Botanical Gardens, Bangalore happens every January and August.  The 201st flower show is currently happening and as always half of Bangalore is continuing to turn up diligently.

Here are some flowers and critters I saw...

Meadow Argus Butterfly on Baby's breath flowers...


Ageratum Houstonianum (flossflower, bluemink, blueweed, pussy foot, Mexican paintbrush)...


Baby's Breath...



 Assorted flowers...



 Black-eyed Susan... 



 Bracteantha (Straw flower)...



Celosia wool flower...



 Celosia wool flower...


 Celosia wool flower...



 Chrysanthemum...



Celosia Cockscomb... 



 Celosia Cockscomb... 



 Celosia Cockscomb... 



Common Eggfly butterfly on Zinnia...



Honey Bee feasting on Dahlia...



 Daisy...



 Damselfly...



 Dianthus...



 Dianthus...



 Dianthus...



 Dianthus...



 Dianthus...



Female Lemon Emigrant butterfly...



 Marigold...



 Meadow Argus Butterfly on Baby's breath flowers...



 Petunia...



 Phlox...



  Phlox...



  Phlox...



  Phlox...



 Dahlia...



Phlox...



 Plains Coreopsis...



 Poppy...



  Poppy...



 Red Wax Begonia...



 Rocket Larkspur... 



 Rose...



  Rose...



  Rose...



 Spider Lily...



Tailed Green Jay butterfly...



  Red Wax Begonia...



 Pansy...

54 comments:

  1. Absolutely beautiful.......would make great framed photos. <3

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  2. Truly Awesome photos, Thanks for your post.

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  3. I love flower shows. You captured some stunning images. Lovely!

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  4. So many beautiful blooms, bugs and butterflies. The baby's breath really grabbed my attention. Ours are white where yours have a purple hue. So pretty!

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  5. Love the straw flower! SO unique, to me!

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  6. Nature's spectacular displays are really breathtaking. The broad array of colors and the variety of flowers are a feast for the eyes. The only thing missing in your incredible photographic captures is the scent of the beautiful flowers.

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  7. Wow, such many wonderful blooms and of course the butterflies 😀

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  8. Oh how I miss warm weather and brilliant colors.. these are gorgeous flower pics! Thanks for sharing the love up-close with I Heart Macro:-)

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  9. You brightened my overcast day my friend! Tom The Backroads Traveller

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  10. Gorgeous flowers! The butterflies and the dragonfly are lovely too. Beautiful photos.. Thank you for linking up and sharing your post! Have a happy weekend!

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  11. Very beautiful flowers and butterflies.
    The Chrysanthimum is so pretty.
    Have a Beautiful Day, Theresa.
    Peace :)

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  12. Meadow Argus Butterflies are brilliant. Amazing how they have developed similar defensive eyespots to others around the world.
    ~

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  13. Stunning flowers and critters! The green jay butterfly is my favorite. Lovely shots of all!

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  14. Beautiful blooms, love all the colors flowers always make me happy! :-) Thanks for sharing at OBW

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  15. That's nice to see these beautiful flowers and gorgeous butterflies !

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  16. The flowers are beautiful and your photos are absolutely stunning!! Thanks for sharing them with SYC.
    hugs,
    Jann

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  17. Fantastic! I have enjoyed this marvelous collection of flowers and I thank you so much for sharing them with Today's Flowers.

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  18. Stopping by for sundays in my city. http://riacabral.blogspot.com/
    Amazing photos. thanks for sharing. it has inspired me to take more flower and nature pictures!

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  19. What a feast for the senses! That's a wonderful way to spend the day.
    Take 25 to Hollister

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  20. great series of photos. They are so beautiful

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  21. All those flowers and critters are just stunning!

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  22. All photos are equally beautiful. It was hard for ne to choose one favorite shot. It's amazing that you know names of all these flowers. I have seen many of them but never learned the names until i've read your post.

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  23. wow!so many beautiful flowers.All are gorgeous!

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  24. Very nice pictures, love all the beautiful colors and the sharpness of each of the pictures.

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  25. Wow, so colorful and beautiful. The details are so clear, I can almost smell the flowers.

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  26. Amazing vivid colors! I looked so many times as outside my window its winter and gloomy and your photo reminds me of spring and summer =)

    Dropping by from http://pixiedusk.livejournal.com/339569.html

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  27. These are blooming fantastic ;-)

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  28. So many stunning floral varieties and butterflies! And all of them captured so beautifully!

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  29. Stunning series - now I'm drunk on color!

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  30. OH... P.S.... - Please share at http://image-in-ing.blogspot.com/2015/01/pretty-in-purples.html

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  31. Love live flowers! Gorgeous shots!

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  32. I wish my flowers would look so spectacular.

    http://royalegacy.blogspot.com/2015/01/wordless-wednesday-almost-desert.html

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  33. These are lovely. Any one of them would make a beautiful postcard. Happy Postcard Friendship Friday.

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  34. Absolutely gorgeous pictures! I love the ones with the butterflies!

    xx
    Lysa

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  35. My fav is the Green tailed Butterfly!! The flowers are wonderful, makes me long for spring!
    Come link up when you have a chance!!
    Karren @http://ohmyheartsiegirl.com/heartsie-wordless-wednesday-3/

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  36. You certainly enjoy photographing the flowers as much as I do!! The colors and textures are so awesome. Love the little butterflies and damselflies, too.

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  37. wow what a beautiful and colorful collection of photographs :)
    I remember few years ago they made Eiffel tower out of flowers.

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  38. What lush colors -- absolutely beautiful!
    :-)
    Traci

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  39. Wow! I kept looking thinking ooh this is my favourite, scrolled down a bit more and ooh this is my favourite... That last rose picture though, what beautiful colours on it. Thanks for sharing.

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  40. Lovely captures. Couldn't go this time. :(

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  41. So many colors. So many different flowers. Ahhh, to choose which photograph I liked BEST. It isn't possible. Thanks for starting off my day with beauty and peace.
    JM, Illinois-U.S.A.

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  42. Wonderful photos and amazing flowers. You really made me long for Summer. Thank you for sharing all this beauty on a winter´s day in Sweden.
    /Charlotte @My Green Nook
    https://mygreennook.wordpress.com/

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  43. Oh my goodness..so much beauty to warm my cold winter day.. Color and color and LOVE the damselfly....Michelle

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  44. locely flower pics , great blog thanks for sharing :)

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  45. Your blog post is very Awesome and Flower image looking so nice. Thank you for sharing this blog post.
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