In Siva's Garden Today
Some regard it as the most beautiful vine in the world. Thunbergia mysorensis, a native of Mysore, South India.
Today it is blooming lavishly in our garden. We have 4 or 5 of the vines planted here and there. They grow to be massive, covering half an acre or more, with thousands of inflorensences, which grow down on ever-lengthening tendrils and are about 20 inches long, in bright purple and yellow.
In fact, there is a flower on the vine every day of the year.
The birds love to sit on the yellow lip and drink the nectar it holds.
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April 5th, 2012 at 4:02 am
Wow! How beautiful they look! This is the first time I’m seeing the flowers!
I wonder what’s its called in Tamil….
April 5th, 2012 at 6:53 pm
SO beautiful! I wish they could grow in my yard, but the winters are too cold for them. I’ll just have to see them at the Aadheenam!