Some flowers from Godawari

Godawari, a place at the base of Phulchoki hill, a hill south of Kathmandu, also known for national botanical garden. The garden is of interest to research scholar and others to conduct research or to visit and enjoy the nature. I visited the site after more than ten years and could see that the site is very much crowded. It might be due to limited gardens and open space in the Kathmandu. Here are some flower pictures from the garden. I don't know the scientific names of them.

Fruits and fruit cakes

Fruits are source of vitamins, minerals and other elements. They are essential food components of human. However, all types of fruits are not available at a time since they are seasonal and production differ on climatic and altitudinal variations. I could enjoy variety of fruits and fruit cake which I would like to share with you here. Enjoy it.

Roses for you!

Roses are the symbols of love and beauty. Roses are gift to lover, God and even soul and spirit. May be due to its colour, symbolic meaning and softness, it is used as national flower, national symbol and commercial trade mark by many countries and people. The colour of roses symbolises different meaning. It may be love, friendship, peace and so on... It is you to decide which rose you like among the following four ones. The pictures of these roses are taken from the rose garden at Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas, Norway.

Rhododendron: Gurans in Nepali

I have three posts on general information on Rhododendron. If you are interested on scientific nomenclature, here is it.
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Genus: Rhododendron L.
Species: (depends, e.g., arboreum)

Local name: Lali gurans in case of the national flower of Nepal which looks similar to the first picture in structure but has the colour like to the second picture.

I came to know that Rhododendron is being protected and conserved through local initiatives. Click here to see the activities of that project and to know the names of different Rhododendron flowers with the help of picture.

Rhododendron from Norway

Rhododendron is widely distributed species (growing from Northern to Southern hemisphere) though higher diversity is found in Himalaya. The flower is also cultivated as ornamental due to evergreen nature of plant and different shapes, size and coloured flowers. These are the snaps of some of the ornamental Rhododendrons in Norway.

Rhododendron - Nepal's national flower

Rhododendron is a beautiful flower with different colours and shapes. The Greek translation of Rhododendron means 'Rose tree'. However, Rhododendron may be small shrub to tall tree (up to 12 m). The hills of Nepal are coloured red, white or pink during the blooming season of Rhododendron. This flower also got national recognizing as national flower in Nepal. The genus and species which is dark red in colour is Rhododendron arboreum which is called as 'Lali Gurans' in Nepali. I will be posting the pictures of different Rhododendrons from Norway. Sorry, I don't know their species name.

Cyclic form of nature

Four pictures are from same area. The first is taken from a distance compare to other three. The first was also taken during winter so you do not see flowers in the garden and leaves in the big tree. The second is during spring season and plants are developing fast. Third and fourth are at the stage of flowering (same place taken from opposite directions). Flowers are of same season but in two shifts. After the tulips, marigolds were seen. Marigolds remind me of Dashain and Tihar in Nepal.

More flowers

Enjoy colourful and beautiful flowers.

Again Tulips

White, yellow, red, and green. Where are the other colours?

Traditional milk pots

Alumnium milk pots are still in use in many countries to carry milk to the collection centres. However, I have seen those pots as flower pots in Bergen, Norway. They are not in use due to technical change and direct storage of milk in cooling storage system. However the research labs in developed and developed countries still use the glass utensils for their culture. One US$ for a comb of maize and three colours (green, yellow and red) paprika are the other pictures.

Holland and Tulips

The dutch people from Holland like tulips very much. Tulips are grown in a large area for export and tourist attractions in the Netherlands. Thousands of tourists visit Keukenhof Tulip Gardens every year. These pictures are not from Holland but from Norway.