GBBD OCTOBER 2008

Beautiful, comfortable outdoors with autumn at its prime ensure that I feel like having a second spring this 15th October 2008; A very Happy GBBD to you all! By some coincidence I have a purple predominance this October. Most of the blooms are in some lovely shade of purple.The first in the list is the gorgeous Garlic vine which is looking like a giant bouquet on the front wall. Shooting star flower or Pseuderanthemum laxiflorum A solitary Brinjal bloom... Thunbergia Grandiflora Portulaca Even the weeds' flowers are purple. Periwinkle Ruellia Brittoniana Plumeria rubra Celosia Water Lily And breaking the monopoly of purple are some very lovely yellow flowers. Yellow, considered to be an auspicious color in Indian tradition, is gracing the garden in the Hindu Festive season.The first one is the Shrimp plant or Pachystachys lutea Allamanda Papaya blooms Lantana Portulaca again Gourd blooms Joining the Bandwagon are the red blooms, the first one being the eternal favourite-Rose Salvia Splendens Variegated Lantana And finalyy a lovely peach coloured Hibiscus...